In the six chaotic months since SEF (Foreigners and Borders Service) morphed into AIMA (the Agency for Integration, Migrations and Asylum) more than 7,600 judicial complaints have been logged by migrants complaining of delays in their applications for legalisation in this country. That works out at 52 judicial complaints being filed per day, writes Expresso – explaining that the money it costs people to file a judicial complaint (anything from €800 to €1,000) can ensure that applications which would normally take two years, can take as little as two months. The paper also stresses that 7,600 judicial complaints may sound like a lot, but it is a drop in the ocean compared to the more than 400,000 applications for legalisation/ regularisation that are stacked up waiting to be processed. When AIMA began, it inherited around 350,000 pending applications from SEF. It pledged to get on top of the situation within months.
Migrants file 52 judicial complaints against AIMA per day
Angry crowds staged a demonstration over delays last month. Image: Lusa
