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This week in Portugal: striking train workers, fraudulent residency permit applications, a shortage of labor, and great news for EDP.
May 12, 2025
This week in Portugal: striking train workers, fraudulent residency permit applications, a shortage of labor, and great news for EDP.
“…because in Madeira the process takes 6 to 7 weeks, while on the continent it lasts 7 to 8 months,” according to RTP.
“If I knew this would take so long, I wouldn’t have invested in Portugal,” one transplant from Canada told Bloomberg. “There are other places where
The new facility opened this week by Portugal’s Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) is off to a strong start, slated to process more
Last year, the regime of Aleksandr Lukashenko — once dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” but we beg to differ — put in an interesting requirement: as of September
News of the strike came the same day that SIC Noticias reported on immigrants arriving at 03h30 to gain entry into one of AIMA’s centers, all due to lack of staff.
“The office opened at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, but the queue began to form the day before, before 10:00 p.m.,” RTP reports in a video
“Foreign citizens will be able to visit the Espaços Cidadão to obtain their Finance, Social Security and Health User numbers, announced the Minister of Youth
Luís Goes Pinheiro, president of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) said last week that the agency has 410,000 pending immigrant cases in