Foreigners are becoming increasingly important for the sustainability of the system. Contribution amounts have doubled in four years. Citizens from Nepal, India and Bangladesh receive 30% less than Portuguese citizens.
Municipalities with a higher proportion of immigrants have lower crime rates
Odemira, where almost half of the population is foreign, has a lower crime rate per inhabitant than Lisbon. A sociologist warns that what has increased is crime against immigrants.
Sunday marks the 110th World Day of Migrants and Refugees and Chega has called for a protest on the same day against what it calls “uncontrolled immigration in Portugal”
PSP to have national unit for foreigners and borders
The Government will start collecting biometric and personal data from citizens who, coming from outside the European free movement area — the so-called Schengen area — enter the national territory via land borders. "This is a fundamental element to have adequate information for monitoring and to guarantee the regularity of entry into Portugal", said the Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, António Leitão Amaro, after the Council of Ministers this Thursday.
Lisbon, 25 September 2024 (Ecclesia): Pedro Vaz Patto, president of Portugal’s National Justice and Peace Commission (CNJP), emphasized that political proposals on immigration must reject any association between immigrants and crime, as this connection lacks scientific basis.
Remotely, these professionals intend to instruct processes for granting residence permits or renewing residence permits for migrants.
In response to the Government's appeal, hundreds of lawyers and solicitors have already signed up to help resolve the 400,000 pending immigration cases.
They will earn seven and a half euros per case, but the president of the bar association says that the important thing is not the money.
Both in the scenario of an agreement to make the State Budget viable and in another in which the Government and the PS do not understand each other, with the risk of a political crisis, analysts see the leaders trying to justify themselves to voters.
Madeiran Leader Highlights Immigrants’ Crucial Role in Reversing Demographic Decline and Supporting Economic Growth
In June, the Government changed the law on foreigners and, among other measures, eliminated the expression of interest, a legal resource that allowed immigrants who had arrived in the country with a tourist visa to legalize their status in Portugal.
The coordinator of the Left Bloc, Mariana Mortágua has
The PCP Parliamentary Group has presented a bill, proposing the “legal reinstatement of residence authorization procedures based on expressions of interest for the exercise of a subordinate or independent professional activity”.
The PCP considers the impact of the Government's decision to revoke the "possibility of obtaining a residence permit to work in Portugal through expressions of interest" to be negative.
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