Refugee family has more humanitarian visa for Portugal of two months
A Middle East Ministry family has been waiting two and a half months for a human foreign visa. They are hidden in Belarus, and their lives are at risk. Several national and international associations have already alerted the Portuguese Government to the urgency of the process.
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Parents and four children, aged between 12 and 4, converted to Christianity. An Attitude that they can be worth death for in their home country. They fled to Belarus in October last year, when that country opened its doors to refugees.
With the help of several Portuguese associations and a Polish Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), a humanitarian visa was requested for this family through the Portuguese ambassador to Turkey. The family has been waiting two and a half months for a response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This family’s trips to Portugal, where they will have a home, work and school in the Azores, will be funded by volunteers. It was all handled by civil society, which does not understand the delay in this process. SIC said that they are volunteers who are not on the ground and with respect to this family in Belarus shocking.
If you do not get the humanitarian visa, which was requested from Portugal, as alternatives you can go through deportation – with risk to your life that this implies – or try to reach Europe through the border between Belarus and Poland, which is also known as the death zone. . The images illustrate the violence of repression on both sides.
Some countries dispatch this type of process in a week, while Portugal takes more than two and a half months to respond to a humanitarian visa. SIC asked the Foreign Affairs Department for clarification, which it says is awaiting an opinion from the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF), but does not commit to the Ministry with any issuance of visa data.