"What connects us with Angola is the SME (Migration and Foreigners Service), these are the necessary documents so that Cape Verdeans, as foreign citizens, can circulate and do their usefulness as a normal citizen, it is taking place at a very good level", replied this Tuesday Jorge Figueiredo, at the end of his mandate in Angola.
"We have been received (by the Angolan authorities) with great dignity and respect and the idea is that in a very short period of time all Cape Verdeans are effectively legalized, (as well) that the renewal of cards is done quickly and also with costs acceptable for the pockets of each Cape Verdean", he explained.
Speaking to journalists in Luanda, at the end of the audience with the vice-president of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Luísa Damião, the diplomat from the island country pointed to next June as the deadline for the "end of concerns" of your fellow citizens.
"I think this year should already happen, we had already discussed it, we had the pleasure of being received by the Minister of the Interior [...] it is going very well and I think that by June we will have it well closed", he assured.
More than 100,000 Cape Verdeans live in Angola and the community, stressed Jorge Figueiredo, is now in its third generation, with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren: "It means that the relationship between Angola and Cape Verde is very deep", he noted.
Regarding the application and/or requisition of nationality for Cape Verdeans residing in Angola for years, the diploma explained that the process, in his country, takes place at zero cost, the result of a "great transformation at the level of the local consulate".
"Nowadays, the grandson or great-grandson of Cape Verdeans in Angola can access their Cape Verdean documentation without any problems and at zero cost. up to the level of great-grandchildren, they have everything and it's free", he guaranteed.
Jorge Figueiredo, whose six-year mandate ends on 13 March, addressed this Tuesday with Luísa Damião the bilateral relations between his country and Angola, considering that they have risen to the level of "strategic cooperation".
