AIMA says that the end of expressions of interest allowed the evaluation of pending processes
Pedro Portugal Gaspar says that it was necessary to “suspend this type of resource” in order to then “make an assessment and resolve the liabilities”. But Portugal still needs immigrants.
The president of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) said this Tuesday that the end of expressions of interest made it possible to resolve pending regularization processes, before finding other solutions that respond to the needs of the labor market
.Faced with data from the 2023 Migration and Asylum Report released today, which indicated that one of the points suspended by the new foreigners law of June this year (number 3 of article 88) is only the third cause for the Granting of Residence Permits, Pedro Portugal Gaspar considered that it is only possible to draw conclusions after the 400 thousand pending processes have been evaluated and regularized .It was necessary to make "some stop and a suspension of this type of resources", to then "make an assessment and resolve the liabilities", he said.