PJ arrests 13 in swoop on suspicions of illegal immigration, corruption, money laundering
Thirteen arrested including Ministry of Foreign Affairs employee Portugal’s PJ Judicial Police have announced today the dismantlement of an alleged organised criminal group dedicated to the repeated practice of crimes
Police remove anti-immigration activist from immigrant protest outside AIMA offices
AIMA office in Porto one of many leaving immigrants waiting endlessly for papers Portuguese police had to intervene today when an ‘anti-immigration activist’ upset dozens of immigrants trying to hold
Portugal’s former Socialist government blamed for “thousands of immigrants” arriving without full background checks
“Instead of correcting errors, Socialist government showed indifference” A new controversy has opened up over the Easter weekend: that of over 120,000 immigrants who were able to enter Portugal during
First migrant support centre run by Nepalese group opens in Lisbon
Integration project in Martim Moniz ‘open to everyone’ The first local support centre for the integration of migrants run by a Nepalese association in Portugal opened to the public today
Portuguese businesses want 110,000 immigrants ‘fast tracked’ under government’s new entry rules
Protocol signed this week promises visas within 20 days Portuguese businesses are said to be champing at the bit following the signing earlier this week of the government’s new protocol
PM signs new protocol for regulated labour migration
“We‘ve had irresponsible policy in area of immigration” for years Grappling with the results of fairly chaotic immigration over recent years, the caretaker government has today sealed the deal on
Government wants to accelerate deportation of illegal migrants
Policy depends on results of elections on May 18 Portugal’s caretaker AD government will be seeking to accelerate the deportation of illegal/ undocumented migrants. SIC Notícias brings this story today,
Migrations agency sounds alert over 1,000 immigrants registered to ‘same addresses’
AIMA still ‘mopping up’ legacy of ‘manifestations of interest’ The legacy of the previous government’s ‘manifestation of interest’ mechanism, which allowed jobless immigrants to arrive in Portugal on tourist visas
Emigration versus immigration: roughly 75,000 leave, 329,000 arrive
Immigrants ‘transform’ Portugal’s decades of dwindling demographics Between 70,000 and 75,000 Portuguese people chose to live in another country in 2023, a level of emigration that has been stabilised thanks
Immigration agency’s ‘new intake’ already putting in for transfers
Union blames “absence of consistent immigration policy” While immigrants continue to complain about the service (or rather, lack of it) at AIMA – the agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum