SEF holds out for last minute reprieve
Border agency asks interior minister to ‘intercede with PM’ over extinction The union of inspectors of Portugal’s immigration and borders service, SEF, is holding out for an 11th hour reprieve
SEF extinction: government changes goalposts again
PSP ‘to be removed from control of entirety of maritime frontier’ With international flights still facing the prospect of agonising delays through passport control, the government is expected to throw
Airport misery to persist: SEF takes government to court
SEF “has doubts over legality” of PSP/ GNR taking over its duties The misery – and shame – of scenes affecting international airline passengers in Lisbon yesterday seems set to
Passenger misery as Lisbon airport passport controls spiral into chaos
Hundreds of international travellers stuck in queues for hours Hundreds if not thousands of airline passengers had their arrival in Lisbon airport today ‘ruined’ by SEF border agency’s insistence on
More than 54,000 foreigners asked for nationality in 2021
SEF issued 47,278 opinions, 46,855 of which were positive. Over 54,000 foreigners applied for Portuguese nationality in 2021 and the Immigration and Borders Service (SEF) issued 46,855 positive opinions, mostly
SEF syndicate boss accuses GNR and PSP of racism
Police forces’ structural xenophobia ‘doesn’t gel with responsibility for immigrants’ SEF’s syndicate failed in its last-ditch attempt today to save the service from extinction, but in doing so it threw
Portugal has taken in 31,543 Ukrainians
SEF produces up-to-date figures Since the moment Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, over five million people have fled the country, with more twice that number being ‘displaced’. Portugal has
SEF extinction: ‘the process begins’
Syndicate leaders “doubt May deadline can be met” The controversial dismantling of borders agency SEF has been taken on with gusto by the new minister for interior administration José Luís
Ihor’s tragic SEF death: doctor faces no action
General medical council ‘archives’ inquiry The inquiry into the actions of the INEM doctor who ‘verified the death’ of Ukrainian job seeker Ihor Homeniuk at Lisbon airport in March 2020
SEF’s extinction set for second delay
Catastrophic lack of planning: “first failure of new government” Saturday’s ‘Correio Indiscreto’ in tabloid Correio da Manhã was already hinting at the shock of the new minister for interior administration