Portugal is now 1,546,521 migrants. More than 100,000 enter each year. This new population involves labor needs, stimulates consumption and strengthens social security accounts. For example, by 2024, immigrants will provide social security Positive balance of 3.6 billion euros y Marking 12.4% of the total contributions.
Statistics released by the government in early April shows that the “Foreign Population in Portugal” was produced by the Coordination, Migration and AIMA Agency. May soon be more than 1.6 million. This is due to the fact that nearly 50,000 migrants of the “interim rule” created by the Portuguese parliament They were already in Portugal before June 3, 2024 They have already requested their presence to regulate.
If forecasts are confirmed, the 15% of the 10.6 million residents registered in Portugal will represent foreign population. This is a four -fold increase of 2017 statistics.
What has changed?
When the Democratic Alliance government was seized 11 months ago, there were more than 400,000 files on migrant citizens, which were derived from the previous government in Portugal.
In June last year, President Antonio created Antonio Leido Amaro Working system To accelerate the process. The work, headed by Luis Goss Binhiro, began in September, and more than 220,000 migrants have already worked nationwide.
This work committee is one of the 41 activities of the Migration Action Program, which was announced on June 3 last year. The first action Complete the mechanism of exposure to interestThe Antonio Costa was fitted in 2017 by the government.
This procedure allowed any foreigner to enter Portugal and demand regulating in the country, which was excreted and had a job contract or green receipts until the social security current.
Until then, it was the most used way to stay in Portugal, and it was pointed out by the current government that the lack of immigration control. Report on Migration Administration Assessment in Portugal has been manufactured by Associa for Memeria Fucura Chef (ABMFSEF), from 2017 to 2017 More than one million interest expressions have been recorded in Portugal.
Since June 3, 2024, when the rule of interest has been canceled, a 59% reduction in the flow of entries in Portugal. “The entry of foreign citizens to obtain residential permits is less than 64,848 in the second semester of 2024 to the semester from 2024 to the semester,” the government’s report said.
The government explains that “the flow of inputs is similar to the sum of the records of the expression of interest in the period when the flow of inputs is similar to all kinds of employment and residence.”
Since September last year 446,921 interest expressions are pending261,101 have been registered and 241,183 have already been conducted in person. 177,026 immigrants did not respond to AIMA contacts, and their cases were canceled.
The Socialist Party (BS), which implemented this method, recently stopped protecting it, and the current leader, Point Pedro Nuno Santos, acknowledged that the Costa government did not do everything right and that the interest was not a useful mechanism at this time.
Withdrawal of illegal foreigners
There is a specific group of AIMA workers to follow cases that have been rejected for various reasons: there must be precautionary measures to exist Irregular in other Shengen countriesOvarian There is no clean criminal record Oh Do not present The Document Necessary
In cases with the negative results proposal, so far added about 18,000, existing existing 4,579 with final rejection resultsThis will be announced Automatically abandon the Portuguese territoryPortuguese law is needed.
Of these, 3778 were rejected because they were in irregular atmosphere in another element of the EU. This announcement gives them 10 to 20 days to leave the country. If they do not do so, the compulsory discharge process opens.
Of the 18,000 rejections of the expression of interest in creating notice of leaving the national territory, the 75% (13,393) migrants from the Indian subcontinent (The majority of India and Bangladesh, and Pakistan, Nepal and the rest of Sri Lanka).
Less than 2.5% (449) 7% (1,209) are from other African countries (not lusopones, especially from McReppe). The rest are from Latin America and Asia.
The government’s decision in the entire election campaign is compared to Donald Trump’s policy. The The opposition accuses the Luus Mandinigro government of “electoral” and “campaign” In a controversy over Sega’s voters, a party that is always very retaliated with the control of settlement in Portugal.
In his protection, the government blames it Authority He has been for many years Listening to Portugal strengthens their income ability And “This is the most negative assessment of Portugal in this parameter during the Shengen’s assessment.”
“At the beginning of the time of the Antonio Costa, when the SEF was still destroyed and worked by BS, was Trump’s deportation when the rules were expelled?” The government is surprised in a statement and condemns it The rule of interest and sef’s bankruptcy is “almost impossible to be in an irregular situation No discharge ends, because the victims can always present the expression of interest and discharge at any time. “
According to the government, after the disappearance of the area and the disappearance of the SEF, the yield decline is undeniable. “Portugal’s immigration policy has stopped playing his role not only from our country but also Europe,” he accused.
Evolution of Volunteer Release Notes by the number of foreigners in Portugal
In 2016, at the beginning of the Antonio Costa government, a long time before suppressing the SEF (in 2023) and a year before the rule of interest exposure (2017), A large number of abandoned notifications (5,470) to date. There were 400,000 foreigners in Portugal that year, which is a quarter of the current population.
Since 2016, l The number of notifications has declined annually (Except 2019), the number of foreigners has increased significantly.
By creating the rule of expression of interest in 2017, then, in 2019, with the change of regime, provides a way to regulate foreigners who are now illegally living in Portugal, the number of foreigners living in Portugal. Growing rapidly, today goes ranging from just 400,000 to nearly 1.6 million.
However, Returning notifications are declining: From 2019 to 2024, they fell to the tenth part, and the number of foreigners increased almost three times. There were only 447 notifications in 2024.
The government of Louis Montenecro’s government accuses the newspapers that “this route is not only removing the SEF and the lack of preparation in the creation of AIMA, but also the harmful effect of the regime of interest.”
How does the exhaust process work in Portugal?
In Portugal, the process of being discharged from an irregular foreigner has many levels. First, a foreigner’s illegal residence is detected, which follows Notice a The nationality to leave the country Voluntarily volunteer (NAV) Brevista in Article 138 of the Foreign Act within 10 to 20 days.
If a citizen has violated the duty to voluntarily abandon the country within the establishment of NAV, it is terminated due to Article 146 of the Foreign Act. When they are taken before a judge, they can be Arrested in temporary installation centers (CIT)They are used to retain nationalities from third countries under the diagnosis procedure, as well as procedures that are expelled from the national territory.
As a result of the obstruction, the compulsory exhaust process is opened, which is analyzed and solved by AIMA. If this decision is not completed and if the discharge decision has not been submitted to an appeal or asylum application, Citizen will be persuaded to border, police escort if needed.