The EU's Entry/Exit System is marking some non-EU visitors as overstayers because their exit was never logged, Which? and Euronews report. Residence permit holders are exempt, but visiting relatives are not: how to use the official calculator and who corrects records in Portugal.
Interior Minister Luís Neves told Parliament on 17 June the PSP reorganisation under review in Lisbon, Porto and Setúbal redeploys ~500 agents to street patrol — no super-esquadras — and 360 extra officers reinforce airports from 3 July as the Rato torture probe accelerates the closure roadmap.
First two days of Vinci's reinforced Lisbon Airport border lanes cut arrival waits to 47 minutes; Porto airport peaks at 1 hour Saturday 30 May, with 360 new PSP officers due in July.
Veterans of Portuguese aviation reframed the Lisbon airport queues story on Thursday — the cause is 'saturação estrutural', a decade of 70% passenger growth absorbed by an unchanged terminal. Vinci's 29 May reinforcement lifts boxes to 34 and e-gates to 32.
ACI Europe's Wednesday 27 May statement pegs Schengen EES border waits at up to 3.5 hours across 45 surveyed European airports — a 70% processing-time lift naming Portugal alongside France, Germany, Italy, Greece and Spain. Henna Virkkunen offers Commission support; DECO opens a compensation push.
The Associação dos Hotéis e Empreendimentos Turísticos do Algarve (AHETA) is pressing the Portuguese government to suspend the European Entry-Exit System (EES) at Faro Airport for the duration of the 2026 summer peak, citing biometric-registration...
The Ministério da Administração Interna (MAI) opens additional manual border-control boxes at Aeroporto Humberto Delgado from Thursday 29 May 2026 , scales the number of e-gates at the same terminal, and routes new PSP officers into airport border...
