Portugal: Immigrants in the Figure of visas for complete 15 days
The government of Portugal has delayed the opening for this period of automatic authorization (AR) of immigrants the second quarter 2022. In 2021, the release of the procedure, which covered 16 thousand citizens, took place on March 23eight days before the permits start to expire.
The situation concerns Brazilians residing in Portugal and needing a valid document to work. Lorraine Gauter, who works for a technology company and only has authorization until April 19: “I have been in contact with the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) every day for more than two days and they tell me to wait. I know other people in the same situation as well”, tells the immigrant to the now europe.
Despite the existence of a Which determines that all visas are authorized to reside in Portugal by decree valid until June 30, even overdue, the professional has received from losing her job: “They [a empresa] there is one that I have a valid contract”, said Lorra and half residing in Lisbon.
The SEF informed the now europe which awaits approval from the Ministry of Internal Administration (MA) so that it can carry out the release of the renewals, requested at the end of March. The ministry tells the report that it is “dealing with the matter”, but still without a set date to authorize the renewals.
Change without process
Since July 2020, the two dodocuments is carried out automatically by the SEF website. Initially, people with study authorization were not covered by the new functionality. At the end of November of the same year, however, the category was registered on the online social network.
The opening usually takes place every four months, without a few days or weeks in advance. This year, however, document renewals with expiration data for the first quarter have already started a few days late, on January 4th. The AR is a document that guarantees immigrants the right to reside in the country.