To solve the delays residence permit granting process and issuing the respective card, they would take the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) "at least another 200 administrative employees" and as many inspectors. The accounts have been advanced to the two PUBLIC sector unions in the day that the PIC - Platform Immigration and Citizenship organized in Lisbon a protest "against the blockade of the legalization process."
Unions paint a bleak picture in terms of human resources in what is the service responsible for controlling the movement of persons across borders and permanence of people in the country.
With about 1,200 employees, of which 726 are inspectors and administrative remaining, the SEF has been struggling "with a growing service stream" at a time when "considering all the Portuguese coast, not even give an inspector per kilometer of coast, "as illustrated Acacio Pereira, the Research Career Union and Monitoring of the SEF, which indicates 2004 as the year in which they were last employed inspectors.
In May, the Parliament, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Constance Sousa Urban, acknowledged the shortcomings and said that in June, would enter the SEF 45 new inspectors. "They are trainees, who were being trained and will take time to be able to do their job. And, moreover, all that is below a thousand inspectors not enough to guarantee the work with a minimum of reasonableness, "counteracts Acacio Pereira.
The procedural side, the scenario does not improve much: the president of the Union of SEF officials, Manuela Nice, highlights the need for the service to be provided with "at least another 200 employees by the summer of next year", otherwise the processes continue to accumulate. "Right now, we have delays [in the process] arriving at nine months - although I think that the national average does not exceed six months - with all that this implies for those who remain illegally in the country", he said.
In the accounts of Nice, "came out in the last two years from 60 to 80 employees" and in 25 places open but under mobility in the civil service, were only four people. "The scenario will worsen in September, when" 15 to 20 employees who had six months ago its application for mobility should go away. "
Manuela Nice says there are more employees want to leave the SEF than in because the working conditions deteriorated. "These employees, who are not police the area and were included in the civil service tout court, work with sensitive materials and leading role in matters of national security. It is a great responsibility, that does not match a specific career. At this point, we have people to exercise senior technical functions for decades and continue to be recognized only as technical assistants. Now it can work in another state body, with half of the responsibility and stress and with the same counterparts, there are naturally more and more people to want to leave, "he warns. And remember that "are takes years to form a person capable of responding swiftly and rigorously" to requests that the service imposes.
Unions paint a bleak picture in terms of human resources in what is the service responsible for controlling the movement of persons across borders and permanence of people in the country.
With about 1,200 employees, of which 726 are inspectors and administrative remaining, the SEF has been struggling "with a growing service stream" at a time when "considering all the Portuguese coast, not even give an inspector per kilometer of coast, "as illustrated Acacio Pereira, the Research Career Union and Monitoring of the SEF, which indicates 2004 as the year in which they were last employed inspectors.
In May, the Parliament, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Constance Sousa Urban, acknowledged the shortcomings and said that in June, would enter the SEF 45 new inspectors. "They are trainees, who were being trained and will take time to be able to do their job. And, moreover, all that is below a thousand inspectors not enough to guarantee the work with a minimum of reasonableness, "counteracts Acacio Pereira.
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