The task force that inherited nearly a million immigration files has cleared all but about 30,000 — the harder cases that need documents, checks or a direct call before AIMA can decide.
The European Commission has sent Portugal letters of formal notice for missing the deadlines to transpose two EU migration laws — the revised Single Permit Directive on residence-and-work permits and the recast Reception Conditions Directive for asylum seekers. Lisbon has two months to respond befor
A government commission wants every one of Portugal's roughly 4,300 state fees recalculated to reflect the real cost of the service behind it. The report, presented at the Finance Ministry, opens a debate on reforming charges that are often outdated.
Portugal is about to remove one of the most tedious steps in settling into the country. From the end of July, foreign nationals will be handed their Social Security identification number — the Número de Identificação de Segurança Social (Social...
Immigrants whose Portuguese permits expire in July or August can now renew online, while AIMA leans on digital certificates that prove a lawful, pending status — and tenders a ~€208,000 rebuild of its crash-prone portal. Here is what to file and what to keep.
The Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum) — AIMA — has begun chasing immigrants whose reagrupamento familiar (family reunification) requests advanced after only the first half of the statutory...
How to get a Portuguese tax number for free, in person or from abroad, the documents to bring, and why you do not need a fiscal representative to get it.
