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Polícia Judiciária Searches AIMA's Ponta Delgada Office in Operação Linha Direta — Public Servants Suspected of Selling Appointment Priority and Case-Processing Speed Inside the Loja AIMA dos Açores

Polícia Judiciária Searches AIMA's Ponta Delgada Office in Operação Linha Direta — Public Servants Suspected of Selling Appointment Priority and Case-Processing Speed Inside the Loja AIMA dos Açores

PJ executed nine warrants on 29 April in Operação Linha Direta — three residences and three premises including the Loja AIMA in Ponta Delgada. Crimes: abuso de poder, recebimento indevido de vantagem, corrupção. AIMA opened an internal inquiry; STM union responded 2 May.
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AIMA Reopens the Family-Reunification Portal for CPLP Minor Children — First Concrete Step Out of the Reagrupamento Freeze, Ten Days After Lula's Visit and on the Back of Roughly 220,000 Title Exchanges Cleared Through Spring

AIMA Reopens the Family-Reunification Portal for CPLP Minor Children — First Concrete Step Out of the Reagrupamento Freeze, Ten Days After Lula's Visit and on the Back of Roughly 220,000 Title Exchanges Cleared Through Spring

Ten days before President Lula touched down in Lisbon for his five-day state visit, the Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo quietly switched a piece of its services portal back on. As of 18 April 2026, citizens of Community of Portuguese...
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