Sixteen arrived in Portugal completely alone
About 350 cranial minors arrived in Portugal without their parents or legal representatives, the process having been communicated to the Public Ministry, and 16 entered completely alone, revealed to Lusa linked to the process.
According to the same source, the situation of these 16 minors who arrived in Portugal “unaccompanied” or in documents was immediately taken to the Commission for the Protection of Children and Youth (CPCJ) for “assistance in urgent and adequate procedures”.
The source said that, even at the beginning of the Ukrainian war, on February 24, about 350 unaccompanied minors arrived in Portugal, but in the presence of a person other than their parent or legal representative since the continuation, so the situation is another communicated to the Public Ministry for the appointment of a legal representative.
In a response sent to the Lusa agency, the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) states that almost 28.51 requests for protection of residents have been granted to Ukrainians and foreign citizens in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, of which 10,126 are minors.
Citizens fled the war who were protected to Portugal through a platform ‘SEFforUkraine.sef.pt‘) available in three different languages, with no need to carry out a security service at the counters.
However, in the case of minors, it is mandatory to go to a Foreigners and Borders Service desk to confirm their identity and affiliation.
The protection procedure in matters of minors, there is no registration and forms of registration of case of intervention of any conditioned entity or representative legally described in the order specification.
Another form of communication to the Public Ministry when children arrive by adults who are not the parents of our legal representatives. In these cases in which there is no danger, communication is made to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the geographic area of residence declared to the SEF “for the appointment of a legal representative and possible promotion of a process for the protection of the minor”.
In a recent interview with Lusa one of the SEF inspectors who monitors the process of requests for protection to people from Ukraine explains that when they arrive in Portugal, it is often the parents but complemented by family members, such as children, cousins or grandparents, and these cases are often communicated to the Public ministry.
Another of the SEF’s ways of acting is to CPCJ in the area of competence, to adopt urgent procedures and pre-recommend, in the presence of someone other than the parent or legal representative, assisting them when they treat , but “in current or imminent for life or serious physical or psychological impairment of the child or young person”.
OS also immediately contacts the CPCJ for urgent procedures and to provide appropriate assistance when it comes to an “unaccompanied and self-delivered minor”, taking into account that it is known that this “child is in current or near danger””.
In the reply sent to Lusa, the SEF also indicates that it cannot be linked, until the practice of activities by icitas related to the crimes of education of children or children to illegal education. support for Ukrainian citizens.
Russia launched several attacks on a military community and 24 attacks on various international cities, one that was generally condemned.
This is the worst refugee in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945) and the United Nations estimates that about 13 of the key people in humanitarian assistance in Ukraine.