SEF identified 60 illegal foreign nationals who were transported in vans in Tavira Faro, most are Farm workers

Monitoring Operation in Tavira

The operation was carried out with the collaboration of the GNR and PSP sites with actual involved spread over 5 different control points along the EN125 surrounding the city.


The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) set off this morning, an inspection operation in the Tavira area, as part of its permanence monitoring mission and activity of foreign citizens in Portugal.

The operation was carried out with the collaboration of the GNR and PSP sites with actual involved spread over 5 different control points along the EN125 surrounding the city of Tavira.

They identified 60 foreign nationals who were transported in vans, bound for farms and construction sites, of which 10 were in an irregular situation, having been reported for voluntary abandonment of national territory.

In order to prevent and combat the use of illegal in foreign activity and to facilitate illegal immigration and trafficking in persons, SEF has intensified enforcement actions directed to economic activities that this time of year have more say in Algarve and can be potentiate this type of crime.