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President António José Seguro Warns the 15th National Misericórdias Congress That Demographic Ageing Is Portugal's 'Time Bomb' (Bomba-Relógio) and Names Immigrants as the Social Sector's Load-Bearing Input

President António José Seguro Warns the 15th National Misericórdias Congress That Demographic Ageing Is Portugal's 'Time Bomb' (Bomba-Relógio) and Names Immigrants as the Social Sector's Load-Bearing Input

President António José Seguro opened the 15th National Misericórdias Congress in Braga on 4 June 2026 by branding Portuguese demographic ageing a 'bomba-relógio' and crediting immigrant workers with holding the 388-strong, 52,000-worker network together.
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Renewing Your Título de Residência With AIMA in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Pedido de Renovação Online Portal, the 30-Day-Before-Expiry Window, the Documentary Chain, the Long-Term EU Resident Upgrade, and Surviving the AIMA Backlog

Renewing Your Título de Residência With AIMA in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Pedido de Renovação Online Portal, the 30-Day-Before-Expiry Window, the Documentary Chain, the Long-Term EU Resident Upgrade, and Surviving the AIMA Backlog

Practical 2026 guide to renewing the Título de Residência with AIMA — the 30-day-before-expiry window, the CMD aima.gov.pt portal, the documentary chain across D7, D8, CPLP, Estudo and Reagrupamento Familiar, surviving the backlog, and the year-5 upgrade.
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Banco de Portugal Pins Foreign Buyers at 28% of 2025 Home Transactions and €859 Million Moved — Brazilians Hold 44% of the Foreign-Borrower Stack as Crédito-Habitação to Estrangeiros Doubles to 13.56% of the National Tape

Banco de Portugal Pins Foreign Buyers at 28% of 2025 Home Transactions and €859 Million Moved — Brazilians Hold 44% of the Foreign-Borrower Stack as Crédito-Habitação to Estrangeiros Doubles to 13.56% of the National Tape

BdP's 2025 crédito-habitação tape puts foreigners at 28% of all Portuguese home transactions and €859 million moved, with mortgage credit to estrangeiros at 13.56% of the €19 billion national pool — Brazilians hold 44% of the foreign-borrower stack, up from 35% four years prior.
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Sindicato dos Técnicos de Migração Calls a Four-Day AIMA Strike for 1, 2, 3 and 5 June — Migration Technicians Cite Outsourcing, Career-Path Gap and Persistent Resource Shortages as the Regularisation Backlog Drags

Sindicato dos Técnicos de Migração Calls a Four-Day AIMA Strike for 1, 2, 3 and 5 June — Migration Technicians Cite Outsourcing, Career-Path Gap and Persistent Resource Shortages as the Regularisation Backlog Drags

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.
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Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa Reclassifies Former SEF Border Director's Sentence to Abuso de Poder and Trims the Term to One Year and Ten Months — Ihor Homeniuk Case File Reopens the Justice Conversation on Lisbon Airport Detention

Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa Reclassifies Former SEF Border Director's Sentence to Abuso de Poder and Trims the Term to One Year and Ten Months — Ihor Homeniuk Case File Reopens the Justice Conversation on Lisbon Airport Detention

The Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa has reclassified former SEF Borders director António Sérgio Henriques's conviction from denegação de justiça to abuso de poder, trimming his sentence from 2.5 years suspended to one year and ten months — the latest Ihor Homeniuk case footnote in the SEF-AIMA reset.
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