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Portuguese New Government Announces Comprehensive Measures to Enhance Immigration and Border Control Systems

The government has revealed a series of initiatives aimed at overhauling the immigration and border control systems, providing better support for immigrants, and addressing the current backlogs and inefficiencies. These measures are intended to streamline processes, enhance operational capacity, and ensure a more effective integration of immigrants. Here are the key measures announced:

• Termination of the Expressions of Interest Procedure: This step aims to simplify the immigration process by eliminating unnecessary procedures.

• Enhanced Response and Processing at Consular Posts: Strengthening the capabilities of consular offices to handle immigration requests more efficiently.

• Prioritizing Entry for Family Reunification, Students, and Professionals: Facilitating the entry of family members, young students, and qualified professionals to support familial, educational, and labour market needs.

• Mission Structure for Pending Processes: Establishing a dedicated team to address and clear the backlog of over 400,000 immigration cases.

• Urgent Upgrades to Border Control Infrastructures and Systems: Improving the infrastructure and technology used in border control to enhance efficiency and security.

• Accelerated Deployment of New Border Control Systems: Catching up on delayed implementations to modernize border control operations.

• Reducing Congestion at Lisbon and Faro Airports: Implementing measures to alleviate congestion and delays at these major airports.

• Strengthening the CPLP Mobility Agreement: Enhancing the operational framework of the mobility agreement within the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.

• Fulfilling Resettlement and Relocation Commitments: Meeting obligations to resettle and relocate individuals seeking international protection.

• National Plan for the EU Migration and Asylum Pact: Developing and executing a national strategy aligned with EU migration and asylum policies.

• Increasing Capacity of Temporary Installation Centres (EECITs): Expanding these centres to accommodate more individuals.

• Building New Temporary Installation Centres (CIT): Ensuring new centres have the necessary support systems for temporary accommodation.

• Procedural Speed Mechanisms for Judicial Appeals: Creating faster processes for handling legal appeals related to immigration and asylum cases.

• Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Return System: Streamlining and improving the process for individuals who must leave the country, coordinated among police forces.

• Multi-force Inspection Team to Combat Abuses: Forming a team to address human trafficking, illegal immigration, labour exploitation, and human rights violations.

• Audit of Linguistic Assessment for Nationality Applications: Reviewing and improving the language assessment procedures for obtaining Portuguese nationality.

• Human Capital Attraction System: Developing a system to attract talent based on the country's labour market needs.

• Recognition of Qualifications and Competencies: Enhancing the process for recognizing foreign qualifications and skills.

• Professional Training for Foreign Citizens: Encouraging and facilitating the professional development of immigrants.

• Labour Needs Survey: Surveying to align labour market needs with the availability of foreign workers and planning their integration.

• Attraction of Foreign Students: Promoting the attendance of international students in Portuguese higher education institutions.

• Increasing Asylum Seeker and Refugee Capacity: Expanding places in reception posts for asylum seekers and refugees.

• Emergency Reception for Unaccompanied Minors: Increasing the capacity of specialized residential units for the emergency reception of unaccompanied minors.

• Temporary Accommodation for Immigrants and Refugees: Increasing temporary and urgent accommodation capacity.

• Professional Integration of Immigrants: Promoting the integration of immigrants into the national labour market.

• Municipal/Intermunicipal Emergency Reception Centers: Creating emergency reception centres for immigrants in cooperation with municipalities.

• Integration Projects in Critical Neighborhoods: Implementing projects to aid integration in critical neighbourhoods under municipal coordination.

• Teaching Portuguese as a Non-Mother Language (PLNM): Strengthening the supply, coverage, and frequency of PLNM teaching.

• Multilingual Materials and Guidance: Guiding in multiple languages, including functional Portuguese.

• Simplifying Education Equivalences: Streamlining the process for granting education equivalences.

• Access to National Health Service: Managing and promoting immigrants'immigrants' access to the National Health Service.

• Social Investment in Immigrant Integration: Creating instruments for channelling private capital into immigrant integration projects.

• Foreigners and Borders Unit at PSP: Establishing a new unit within the Public Security Police for handling border issues.

• Restructuring AIMA: Enhancing the competencies and internal organization of AIMA.

• Strengthening AIMA'sAIMA's Resources: Boosting human and technological resources within AIMA to incentivize productivity and performance.

• In-person Service for Residence Permit Renewals: Transferring this responsibility from IRN to AIMA.

• Expansion of In-person Services: Increasing in-person services for immigrants to request sectoral identifiers.

• Restoring the Migration Observatory: Reviving this body to inform public policy.

• I am automating the Council for Migration and Asylum: Redefining and automating this advisory body to the government.

• Financial Support for Immigrant Associations: Strengthening financial support for immigrant and civil society associations.

These measures streamline immigration processes, improve border control, enhance immigrant integration, and effectively meet labour market demands.