Cafôfo Portugal intends to hire more consular staff and visa facilitators — DNOTICIAS.PT
The Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities reinforced today, in Luanda, that the Government intends that consular officials and promote the number of technological improvements, to simplify and improve the procedures for issuing visas.
Paulo Cafofo spoke to the press at the end of the meeting with his counterpart, Domingos Vieira Lopes, and said that his main trip to Angola is to discuss with the Angolan authorities the Mobility Agreement, signed within the scope of the Community of Countries of Portuguese Speaking Mobility Countries (CPLP).
The Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities starts a two-day visit to Angola on Thursday, with the aim of getting closer to the Portuguese community in the country and which will have culture and education on the agenda.
The regulator agreed on the need to improve the operationalization of the aforementioned, “and that this improvement should result in simplification and better visa procedures”.
Paulo Cafôfo was asked that “there are some and some strange comparisons”, stressing that 9,000 visas have already been carried out in the same period of 2021, “more than 800% compared to the previous period”.
“This is a sign that there are improvements, but that we want to substantiate them in a clear and objective way and we have solutions for that, namely the issue of increasing our consular staff, which will already be a reality and which could increase an increase in our consular officers number of visas that are processed monthly in our consulates”, he indicated.
According to the Secretary of State for Communities, this increase in consular employees is also associated with the consular management model, which will imply new technological and digital tools for simplification and better accessibility to services provided at the consulate and especially in the matter of visas.
“In addition to the human resources already available, we are going to simplify, allow, in the month to reduce or avoid the hoarding that happens in us, which naturally whoever gains from this, we do not want and for that reason will also be stressed in this sense”.
The Secretary for Communities English, who has committed to an effort to materialize improvements, asked to comment on the process of scheduling the visa application, said that there are companies “that for usurping and using the system for their own gain”.
“From our point of view, in an unnatural way, and therefore what we are going to do cannot be related to any problem with the employees, with the consis functioning, here the issue is we are more earthlings who avoid this hoarding and our mechanisms internals The greatest efficiency, the efficiency and efficiency of visa agility and the number of processing processes that can be added.
The authorities, as authorities, announce to those who need a visa maintenance service that they work with the embassies of Portugal and Brazil for those who need money.
The official said that Angola is a preferential policy in Portuguese foreign relations, with recent visits to the Portuguese-speaking African country by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Cravinho, and the Secretary of State for Cooperation, Francisco André.
“Here I am, a sign of our priority in external relations with Angola.
In his speech, the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Domingos Vieira Lopes, stressed that Portugal continues to be the destination for many Angolans, whether for study or for health and tourism issues.
Domingos Vieira Lopes requested special attention to requests for health visas, which “has encountered difficulties”.
“The patient needs power, he can clearly convey what he has and who transmits it to also understand it, hence the preference for Portugal is broadcast”, he said.
According to the Golan ruler, he is usually accompanied by a family member, asking for understanding in this sense.
“All that we are thinking that we are consulates, things as we have to run normally, we also hope that there is some difficulty on the Porto side that they expose, and change what does not go in the best way”, he stressed.