AIMA received 643 complaints from immigrants between January and April 2026, up 8.4% year-on-year — with 41.3% citing slow residence-permit processing, 37.8% concentrated in Lisbon, only 15.4% of cases resolved and just 14.7% receiving any AIMA response.
Portugal's screening centres are physically ready inside existing airport detention infrastructure, but the legal framework for the EU Screening Regulation that enters into force on 12 June 2026 is not — pushing António Leitão Amaro into a sixth foreigners-law rewrite in two years.
The Sindicato dos Técnicos de Migração (STM, Migration Officers' Union) closes its four-day walkout at the Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (AIMA, Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum) on Friday 5 June 2026 — the final session of...
The online renewal portal, the window from 90 to 30 days before expiry, the documents, upgrading to long-term EU resident status, and surviving the backlog.
The Sindicato dos Técnicos de Migração announced on Wednesday 27 May a four-day AIMA strike for 1, 2, 3 and 5 June, citing outsourcing of technical functions, a missing career path and persistent resource shortages. The action dovetails with the 3 June CGTP general-strike day.
The Tribunal Administrativo de Círculo de Lisboa logged 496 new legal challenges against AIMA deportation, voluntary-departure and residence-denial orders in April 2026 — 45 times the 11 cases filed in January 2025 — and carries 2,271 pending cases as the new Return Law beds in.
PSP's UNEF logged 1,086 voluntary departures of irregular migrants between August 2025 and end-April 2026 — 665 in 2025 and 421 across the first four months of 2026. Frontex carried 561 cases, OIM 525. Brazilians dominate the cohort.
