Portugal wants to prioritize immigration, but budget does not provide funding for 2025

With more than 400 thousand pending processes, the majority of which are Brazilian, regularization has become chaotic in recent years, which could be alleviated with the opening of the CPLP Channel

With over 400,000 pending cases, most of them from Brazilians, regularization has become chaotic in recent years, which could be alleviated by opening the CPLP Channel. Portugal prioritizes reorganization of immigration, but the budget for 2025 does not detail funding. Chaos in regularization with 400,000 pending cases, mainly from Brazilians. CPLP Channel could be the solution.

When contacted, the Ministry of the Presidency and AIMA did not respond. If the information is sent with the confirmed values, the article will be updated. , a regularization tool provided for in the mobility agreement of the Portuguese-speaking bloc and which would make life easier for thousands of immigrants. For next year, the budget text specifies only that “in 2025, the government establishes as a priority the reorganization of the competences of the institutions with responsibilities in the areas of migration, asylum and borders…”.

The text reports that Portugal has lost the ability to regulate immigration processes, leaving “hundreds of thousands of immigrants forgotten and without support and conditions”.