The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) is cleansing up the lists of delays within the procedures for acquiring a residence allow, the oldest requests date again 4 years. Immigrants who made the “expression of curiosity” in 2017 and 2018 and confirmed the nomination (2302) accomplished the primary stage. One other 19,500 have been notified from 2019 and are beginning to name these in 2020. The marking is within the chronological order of entry of purposes, the principle requirement of immigrants. However they complain that ten days to answer the enchantment is inadequate.
“They name folks to order, as a result of we now have been demanding and most conditions are going nicely. The issue is that after receiving the message, they’ve ten days to schedule the assembly in SEF. There are one or two circumstances who, for varied causes (change of cell phone or e-mail handle), haven’t acquired the message and the SEF considers the method to be off”, protests Alberto Matos, chief of Solidariedade Imigrante (SOLIM) these circumstances are pending for the choice to be reconsidered by the authorities.
The primary to schedule have been distributed by 648 from 2017 and 1654 from 2018, and the oldest companies in 2019 additionally held conferences.
Greater than 31,300 vacancies for different topics
Juliet Cristino, director of the Portuguese Immigrant Committee, says that one or the opposite scenario got here to the group through which the individual didn’t see the message. This doesn’t stop him from praising the best way through which the pending circumstances are resolved. “Notified individuals can schedule nationwide. The SEF is to be congratulated for having accelerated the appointments”. Born in Brazil, Juliette is among the many residents who acquired the message in October. The motion, created to defend the fast regularization of foreigners, helps those that have extra difficulties with applied sciences. “You need to assist, some folks do not know learn how to work nicely with the pc”.
finish of listing
Any individual wishing to regularize their scenario by the use of the “expression of curiosity”, receives an e-mail of this kind: “SEF informs that for the needs of the executive process carried out through the SAPA portal and for those who nonetheless want to apply for a keep through statutes 88/89 [trabalhador por conte de outrem ou conta própria sem visto de residência] You have to make an appointment between 09/10/2021 and 19/10/2021. If you don’t accomplish that throughout the time indicated, the provisions of article 119 of the CPA “(Code of administrative process)” will likely be utilized.
The e-mail is addressed to Adrian Santos, a 20-year-old Brazilian who arrived in Portugal in June 2019. He submitted the expression of curiosity to the SEF portal (SAPA) a month later, a course of accomplished in September, after having connect proof of entry. in Portugal, passport, technique of subsistence, residence, employment contract and felony report. He works on a farm within the remoted district of Beja and has not seen the e-mail. The day after the deadline, Alberto Matos tried to make an appointment with him and located no likelihood to take action. “After being placed on maintain for greater than two years, in violation of all of the deadlines set within the CPA for a response from the general public administration to residents, the SEF “gave him” ten days to reply “proclaims the chief of the affiliation.
Article 119 offers that “if the individuals notified for the oral or the presentation of proof don’t adjust to the notification, a brand new notification could also be made or the act could also be waived”. The SEF advisory assured the DN that they might contemplate the circumstances of those that have been unaware of the notification and didn’t make an appointment. In accordance with Juliet Cristino, these circumstances go to the tip of the listing and will likely be notified once more.
One other difficulty of concern to representatives of foreigners residing in Portugal is said to the extinction of the SEF. The doc containing the federal government’s proposal on this regard was permitted this Friday within the Meeting of the Republic. The Socialist Occasion, the Left Bloc and MP Joacine Katar Moreira voted in favour.
The top of the SEF is a part of a technique of reformulation of the safety forces and companies. The creation of the Portuguese Company for Migration and Asylum is deliberate, which can assume the executive duties of the SEF, shared with the Institute of Registries and Notaries. Police powers are transferred to the PSP, the GNR and the judicial police.
The diploma awaits the approval of the President of the Republic for additional regulation. Immigrants concern that this course of will interrupt the completion of pending gadgets, particularly as a result of even staff have no idea how they may work. For now, there may be the promise that they may proceed with the appointments within the present molds.
Vacancies have additionally been made out there for different issues, comparable to residence allow by household or research, extension, renewal, certificates, and so on. They opened a month in the past and there are 530 left.
ceuneves@dn.pt