Issuance of “mass” residence certificates in Lisbon under criminal investigation — DNOTICIAS.PT
The issuance of certificates of residence “in mass” in parishes of Lisbon, including in Arroios, there are many networks for solving illegals, it is a “difficult” problem for the municipalities, under much criminal investigation.
Asked by the Lusa agency about whether it is investigating an issue, by Lisbon parish councils, of certificates of true residences with false data for the legalization of immigrants in Portugal, the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) only said that “no provides concrete information about ongoing investigations, such as what the Public Prosecutor’s powers are.
“While the criminal police, the SEF acts within the framework of residence in processes within the competence of the investigation and investigation processes and the criminal police, added, in the response, the holders of the issuance of the investigations”, added, in the response, the existence of questions to the Lisbon issue.
On August 12, the newspaper Expresso reported that the SEF is investigating at least the three parish councils in the municipality “due to a residence permit scheme for immigrants”, revealing that “there are addresses with more than 100 conveyed”.
In response to Lusa, the High Commissioner for Migration (ACM), through several specialized offices of the National Center for Support to the Integration of Migrants (CNAIM) in Lisbon, said “there are some difficulties” on the part of citizens in complying with the requirements for does not offer/renew a residential permit in Portugal, but “is aware of the allegedly investigated situations”.
The Arroios Parish Council, one of the municipalities mentioned by the architect, told Lusa that it “has no official knowledge or any notification” of the existence of an investigation by the SEF, but considered that, “if it exists, it will be very good news of the -vinda”, and was available to collaborate.
The current executive of Arroios, chaired by Madalena Natividade (independently elected by the PSD/CDS-PP/MPT/PPM/Aliança coalition), reported that he took office in October 2021, he was confronted with “many certificates published in mass, based on in photocopies and erased papers”, and I request a meeting with the SEF to discuss the problem, which took place at the end of last year.
According to the numbers made public by Arroios, under the previous executive of Margarida MartinPS, in 2019 there were 10,000 new certificates issued in 1 month – “although there were no certificates of residence, the average of this number would imply a state conveyed to every nine minutes compatible”, said the communication office, adding that the situation “is not evident with the data verification needs”.
For the immediate execution of the change of residence, “forcing the presence of the answer to the problem, the problem of execution of the execution of the execution, decided “immediately, the execution of the alteration of the residence”, “forcing the presence of the execution of the problem”, “fighting the presence of the problem execution”, “fighting the presence of the problem execution” and its two witnesses [recenseadas na freguesia]by hand of documents proving signatures – which in addition to documents were consulted from documents to be made by the technicians of the parish – documents and documents presented by them from the parish and not originals”.
“As a result of the tightening of these security measures, the number of certificates requested had dropped to around 20 documents/day”, explained the Arroios Parish Council, informing that each certificate, regardless of its purpose, costs 10 euros to the obligation.
Despite the measures, the executive said that “it is very difficult” for a parish, with few means of intervention, to issue the state of residence to anyone who legally fulfills all the materials and presents a necessary delivery.
“We’ve heard about networks [de auxílio à imigração ilegal] who operate in the parish, who ‘sell’ witnesses and filling in the papers, for amounts that can go up to 100 euros”, denounced the municipality, indicating that, in relation to the origin of the requests for certificates of residence, most of them are According to this board, “many of the citizens coming from India and being in Europe”, right after the consultation of citizens from Bangladesh, can move only for the entry of citizens from Lisbon and other countries.
For the parish of Arroios, this is also “a security problem” for the territory and the community, which is why a meeting was requested on April 11 with the Minister of Internal Administration: “Until today, we have only received the answer that there is still no agenda to meet”.
Another of the boards of the boards is from Santa Maria Maior, chaired by Miguel Coelho (PS), who told Lusa that “there is an ongoing investigation and in collaboration with the SEF, he is investigating all the information up to the requested moment”.
The Communications Office of the Parish Council of Santa Maria Maior said that “in the last two years no certificate of residence has been issued using the figure of the Two Witnesses registered, despite being provided for by law”, and noted that the form of action of the services “corresponds strictly to what is foreseen in the legislation in force”, without explaining the procedure that is being adopted.
Asked about the availability of research in the investigation of the granting of certificates from France, the board, chaired by Sofia Oliveira Dias (PS), informed specific investigative bodies of all collaboration on this topic” said that they were informed ” new internal mechanisms regarding the issuance of certificates”.