The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) is "close the doors" the thousands of illegal immigrants who counted see regularized their stay in Portugal. The associations representing the sector point the finger at an order of 21 March in the new director of the SEF, Luísa Maia Gonçalves, restricts the possibility of legalization for immigrants who have Schengen visa and they can prove that their entry into the country that occurred within the visa validity period (15 to 30 days).
"And so, from a seated, are outlawed about 90% of immigrants in the process of legalization," denounces the Immigration and Citizenship Platform (ICP), which brings together dozens of industry associations. Against an order "that created an intolerable situation of stigmatization and exclusion of thousands of immigrants," the PIC asked audiences to different parliamentary groups and promises to bring the issue to the prime minister, António Costa.
Until the date of that order, immigrants from outside the Schengen area could aspire to see regularized their stay in Portuguese territory, regardless of how they entered the country. Law No. 27/2007 of 4 July, defines in its Article 88, which regulates the granting of residence permits for the exercise of paid employment, which, exceptionally, on the proposal of the Director General of SEF or on the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), may apply for residence permits all who have an employment contract (or an employment relationship certified by a trade union) and are covered by Social Security. The SEF has determined, by order dated 2015, those these rules applied even to those who, fulfilling those requirements, not possess valid residence visa, or even if they had entered the country irregularly.
30,000 illegal in the country
"Legalized in this way over a hundred thousand immigrants," says Timothy Macedo, spokesman for the PIC, which brings together dozens of industry associations. "These were people who were integrated into the labor market, which contributed to Social Security and that helped fill the need for hand labor that exists in the country in certain sectors" need that charge.
The scenario changed in March, when the SEF informed that the regular entry into the national territory was "unavoidable condition" to obtain a residence permit. In practice, making a clean sweep of what has been done so far, SEF has to circumscribe the granting of residence permits to third-country nationals they could prove that entered Portugal still within the validity of the Schengen visa. "Citizens who enter directly in Portugal do not reach the 5%", denounces Timothy Macedo, who "even Cape Verde is hard to get a tourist visa for Portugal."
Moreover, "they do not get to be one hundred years immigrants entering legally in Portugal", according one spokesman. That's because "it is quite impossible, a utopia." And therefore, "immigrants came and then, though with a heavy bureaucratic system, there would be that legalized".
At this time, there will be in Portugal "about 30,000 illegal immigrants", according Timoteo Macedo. And the change in the rules still have repercussions on the 1,500 immigrants who had made their declaration of interests with the SEF to legalize. "It's people already complete files, fingerprints and photos included, and they were waiting to receive their title at home."
30,000 illegal in the country
"Legalized in this way over a hundred thousand immigrants," says Timothy Macedo, spokesman for the PIC, which brings together dozens of industry associations. "These were people who were integrated into the labor market, which contributed to Social Security and that helped fill the need for hand labor that exists in the country in certain sectors" need that charge.
The scenario changed in March, when the SEF informed that the regular entry into the national territory was "unavoidable condition" to obtain a residence permit. In practice, making a clean sweep of what has been done so far, SEF has to circumscribe the granting of residence permits to third-country nationals they could prove that entered Portugal still within the validity of the Schengen visa. "Citizens who enter directly in Portugal do not reach the 5%", denounces Timothy Macedo, who "even Cape Verde is hard to get a tourist visa for Portugal."
Moreover, "they do not get to be one hundred years immigrants entering legally in Portugal", according one spokesman. That's because "it is quite impossible, a utopia." And therefore, "immigrants came and then, though with a heavy bureaucratic system, there would be that legalized".
At this time, there will be in Portugal "about 30,000 illegal immigrants", according Timoteo Macedo. And the change in the rules still have repercussions on the 1,500 immigrants who had made their declaration of interests with the SEF to legalize. "It's people already complete files, fingerprints and photos included, and they were waiting to receive their title at home."source https://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/associacoes-acusam-sef-de-fechar-a-porta-aos-imigrantes-1733260
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In the name of "national interest"
Publico, the SEF said that the order of 21 March aimed at halting the abuse that had been made regarding the requirement of "legal entry" by foreigners who were not even in the country. The aim is thus to "avoid the call effect of foreign nationals unlawfully in the rest of the Schengen area", as well as safeguard the "national interest." When, last week, was questioned in this regard by Members in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Constance Sousa Urban explained that the order of 2015, such that shut down the possibility of legalizing way into the country, it was "illegal" and had a perverse effect. "It has led to an exponential growth of applications and expressions of interest [in the legalization] where there is often no documentation and that the people themselves indicate being Brazilian when, in fact, are Senegalese or Pakistan," he exemplified the minister.
In the name of "national interest"
Publico, the SEF said that the order of 21 March aimed at halting the abuse that had been made regarding the requirement of "legal entry" by foreigners who were not even in the country. The aim is thus to "avoid the call effect of foreign nationals unlawfully in the rest of the Schengen area", as well as safeguard the "national interest." When, last week, was questioned in this regard by Members in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Constance Sousa Urban explained that the order of 2015, such that shut down the possibility of legalizing way into the country, it was "illegal" and had a perverse effect. "It has led to an exponential growth of applications and expressions of interest [in the legalization] where there is often no documentation and that the people themselves indicate being Brazilian when, in fact, are Senegalese or Pakistan," he exemplified the minister.
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