Juliana Castilho
Immigration
Moving to Portugal and living here: visas, AIMA, citizenship and practical life.
- AIMA tracker: deadlines, backlog and updates
- Portugal told 23,133 foreigners to leave last year. In 2024, that number was 446
- AIMA is losing its president again, and no successor has been named
- Portugal's foreign population grew 2.7% last year. In 2022 it grew 39%
- Portugal's new foreigners and asylum law took effect on 11 September
- Arriving in Lisbon by coach or train? Portuguese police are running border checks at the terminals
- Where do Évora's 650 international students file their residence papers now? On campus
- No country claims you as a citizen? Since 1 September there is a procedure, and it is free
- The Algarve came second in the world's retirement rankings (and the winner is in Panama)
- Portugal's return law was signed on 31 August. What happens next turns on a 160-page ruling
- Portugal's return law clears the Constitutional Court, all eleven questions rejected
- Portugal's new border unit checked 52,421 foreigners. Just 2.1% were irregular
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