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Immigrant service centers will open in Braga and Porto.

The Minister of the Presidency announced this Wednesday that, in the coming weeks, 15 service centers of the Mission Structure of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) will be operating in different locations across the country.

“This month we will have the mission structure operating in 15 locations across the country”, said António Leitão Amaro, in the parliamentary committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, where he is being heard.

Montenegro wants to prioritize regulation and family grouping in immigration policy

Prime Minister highlighted the reinforcement of regulatory support services.

The Prime Minister stated this Wednesday that the Portuguese Government's main objective is to prioritize regulation and family reunification in immigration policy, considering that family unity favors subsequent social integration in national territory.

The measure does not come into effect immediately and requires further voting and bureaucratic procedures.

A transitional regime for immigrants who were unable to enter with the expression of interest and already have a Social Security number was approved in its first phase today (11) . The bill is from the Liberal Initiative (IL) and is the first step in a long bureaucratic process, and is not an automatic one.

Maria Lúcia Amaral indicated in Parliament that the complaints are due to the slowness of services, bureaucracy and lack of reception conditions

The Ombudsman said this Thursday, in Parliament, that with the extinction of the Foreigners and Borders Service and the creation of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) there are 40% of complaints from immigrants.

The AIMA - Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum store in Porto was vandalized in the early hours of last night, the institution revealed in a statement this Monday, indicating that an investigation by the PSP is underway.

“I am not convinced that André Ventura does not want elections and I am also not convinced that Chega would be defeated in elections”, he says, before pointing out another reflection: “André Ventura is increasingly working on the extremist fringes of society. This demonstration was from Chega, but it had 1143, Mário Machado's neo-Nazi organization, walking side by side”.

"I've never seen André Ventura so hysterical". Miguel Sousa Tavares sees Chega using Goebbels' tactics. 

President of AIMA acknowledges delay in scheduling and response requests at immigration but states that the regrouping process begins this month, to speed up the integration of regularized immigrants.

Message sent on the new Portuguese government platform is confused with approval of the attribution of nationality and causes a rush to registry offices

As the new website had to transfer all the content stored at the old address, applicants who check the progress online receive notifications of the completion of the processes.

The idea is simple: negotiate a referendum on immigration with a possible approval of the State Budget proposal for 2025, the most critical moment for Luís Montenegro's Government, which will have a decisive phase in testing its durability.

This simple idea came from Chega and André Ventura, who decided to launch this proposal, even knowing that it has to go through the President of the Republic and the Constitutional Court, two bodies that, for Miguel Sousa Tavares, will never approve such a measure.

The president of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) announced today that from October more vacancies will be opened for family reunification processes, seeking to accelerate the integration of regularized immigrants.

“We are now going to enter this month of October with a great acceleration in relation to family reunification processes”, said Pedro Portugal Gaspar, in an interview with Lusa.