“Those trying to get through to the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) over the phone … despair after countless hours of failed attempts,” Público writes.
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“On social media, some claim that in just one day, they tried to make 1,500 phone calls to get one of the 42,000 vacancies opened by the SEF, without success,” CNN Portugal reports.
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And remember this from just a little over a year ago?
SEF to Be Dismantled; Government and Parliament Can’t Agree on Who Will Give It the Ax
But that hasn’t happened, of course.