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Frontex's 'Travel to Europe' app has been available at Lisbon Airport since Monday. It generates a QR code after a questionnaire and can be used up to 72 hours before travel.
Home News EES system detected 4000 overstays EES system detected 4000 overstays The European Union Entry/Exit System (EES) has already detected 4000 travellers overstaying in the Schengen Area. By Bruno G.
Attempts to reform EU migration rules date back to the 2015 refugee crisis, but there are doubts about how the new rules will fare under new pressure.
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“By summer” is the new deadline for completing the hearing room where judges will be able to interview foreign nationals barred at Lisbon Airport. ANA - Aeroportos de Portugal states that the project is in the contracting phase and expects the renovation to be finished by summer. The room, proposed by the High Council of the Judiciary (CSM), is at least a year behind schedule due to bureaucratic delays and disputes over responsibilities between the police, the Ministry of Justice, and airport management. Currently, 1,867 passengers were denied entry in 2025, and the new facility aims to ensure that the legal right of these individuals to be heard by a judge is upheld more efficiently, preventing cases where people are deported before their legal proceedings can be completed.
There is a risk of a resurgence in a climate of intolerance, increased refusals of entry into Portugal for those 'suspected' of being would‑be immigrants, and frequent police operations by the UNEF. Opinion by Carlos Vianna
PS leader José Luís Carneiro argued on Tuesday that Portugal never had open borders, calling that claim a 'lie told a thousand times' by the Government and its allies and challenging them to a 'serious debate' on immigration. 'A lie told a thousand times does not become the truth. And what ...'
PS leader José Luís Carneiro condemned Government claims that Portugal has 'open borders' as a 'lie told a thousand times', arguing the country never had open borders, rejecting any link between immigration and insecurity, and challenging the Government to a serious debate on immigration policy.
The PSP reports it detained 343 people at air borders last year, 86 more than in 2024.
In 2025, 343 people were detained at air borders for offences involving false documentation or to serve international warrants. This figure is higher than in 2024, when there were 257 detentions.
Decisions to bar foreign nationals from the country more than doubled in 2025, rising from 110 in 2024 to 292, according to PSP data.
Detentions carried out by the PSP at air borders across all Portuguese airports rose by 34% last year compared with 2024, and entry bans to the country more than doubled, the police revealed today.
Entry bans imposed in Portugal doubled in 2025. Detentions at air borders rose by 34%.
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Abner Ivan and his wife, Natália Marinho, travelled to Portugal at the invitation of the Óbidos International Chocolate Festival but were barred from entry at Lisbon Airport.
The Central Mediterranean route accounted for the most detected irregular entries in 2025 (66,328, a year-on-year decrease of 1%), followed by the Eastern Mediterranean with 51,399 detections, down 27%.
Routes from West Africa and the Western Balkans saw irregular crossings of the EU's external borders decline.
The West African and Western Balkans routes saw irregular crossings of the EU's external borders decrease.
According to provisional data released this Wednesday by the PSP in a statement, authorities refused entry at Lisbon Airport to 1,867 people and detained 263.
At Lisbon's air border, for passengers arriving from outside the Schengen Area, the PSP (Public Security Police) refused entry to 1,867 people and detained 263.
After all the affirmations that hideous queues at border control gates at Lisbon airport had ‘nothing to do with the new European Entry/ Exit System (EES), the system is to The post EU border control system to be ‘reactivated on Monday’ at Lisbon airport – and then suspended again appeared first on Portugal Resident.
For scheduling reasons, the meeting has been rescheduled again to 20 January. Also, the European border-control system for non-EU citizens at the airport is being reactivated today.
Reports indicate 24 National Republican Guard (GNR) personnel were assigned to reinforce border checks at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport to help reduce queues and bolster security. The GNR later clarified the 24 officers will be deployed as reinforcements from next Tuesday; the airport had previously been reinforced by 25 GNR personnel at 19:00 and around 80 PSP officers over the Christmas period.
