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More than 85,700 CPLP immigrants applied for residence permits in Portugal in nine days

More than 85,700 Portuguese-speaking immigrants residing in Portugal applied, in nine days, for a residence permit through the new portal made available by the SEF for the automatic attribution of these documents, announced the Portuguese Government.

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The new platform for obtaining residence permits in Portugal for citizens of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) came into operation on March 13 and is aimed at Portuguese-speaking immigrants with pending cases at the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) until December 31, 2022 and for those who have a CPLP visa issued by Portuguese consulates after October 31, 2022.

A joint communiqué from the Ministry of Internal Administration, Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the Secretary of State for Digitization and Administrative Modernization, sent to Lusa, reports that the SEF received, between 13 March and 7 pm on Tuesday, 85,770 requests for the attribution of residence permit certificates by CPLP citizens.

According to the Portuguese Government, of the 85,770 requests for residence permits made on the 'CPLP portal', available on the SEF and ePortugal.gov websites, the Foreigners and Borders Service issued 74,725 documents with reference to the payment of residence permits.

The Government guarantees that "security levels remain unchanged in this process, with 4,369 security consultations having been carried out prior to the issuance of residence permits due to alerts arising in the initial analysis".

According to the executive, this is "an agile and efficient procedure that should be used by citizens of CPLP countries", giving them access to education, health, security, professional activity, professional training and justice.

The Government also indicates that "it is very important that immigrant citizens take advantage of this opportunity to regularize their situation" in Portugal.

According to official data, there are around 150,000 immigrants from Portuguese-speaking countries in Portugal with pending cases at the SEF, the majority being Brazilian.

According to the SEF, these residence permit concessions are automatic and "exclusively 'online', without the need for any other type of interaction with the service or physical travel to a service point".

However, in the case of minors involved in the legalization process, it is necessary to go "afterwards to a SEF service point".

The residence permit for CPLP immigrants costs 15 euros and the availability of this document in an electronic format generally takes 72 hours.

This residence permit in Portugal for CPLP citizens is granted under the mobility agreement between the Member States of the organization.

In addition to Portugal, Cape Verde, Brazil, Timor-Leste, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Mozambique are part of the CPLP.

The residence permit under the CPLP mobility agreement is initially valid for one year, renewable for two successive periods of two years.

SEF data show that the foreign population legally residing in Portugal increased in 2022 for the seventh consecutive year, totaling 757,252, and the Brazilian community was the one that grew the most, in addition to being the most numerous.

At the end of last year, there were 233,138 Brazilians residing in Portugal.

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