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Other delegates may also have been prevented from participating.
Residents in Lisbon are facing a total backlog for renewing their citizen card (Cartão de Cidadão), with no appointments currently available until 2027. The situation has created significant bureaucratic delays for those needing to update their primary identification document.
The Cartão de Cidadão (Citizen Card) is Portugal’s national identity card, introduced in 2007, used for in‑person ID and many online public services; it contains your civil identity data and supports digital authentication and signatures. It is issued to Portuguese citizens—foreign residents use a residence permit for ID—so non‑citizen expats should keep their passport and residence card for official matters.
Minister of the Presidency António Leitão Amaro confirmed that the national immigrant integration plan is still being drafted. The announcement follows public criticism from immigrant advocates regarding the performance of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo or AIMA).
Temporary residence is a limited residence permit that allows non‑EU nationals to live in Portugal for a set period (commonly one year, renewable) for study, work or other reasons. The Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (AIMA) launching an online form means eligible students who also work can apply or regularise their status more easily through AIMA’s process rather than only via consular services.
According to the Union of Registry and Notary Workers, most registry offices closed in mainland Portugal. Also, in the World Cup, Canada drew against Bosnia.
At least 20 midwives were denied entry visas to Portugal for an international conference held in Lisbon.
The Portuguese government has denied entry visas to a group of midwives who were scheduled to participate in an international conference held in Lisbon.
Without Portuguese nationality, the three boys, aged 11, 13, and 15, are prevented from representing Portugal in the sports they compete in: handball, swimming, and karate. The IRN has not commented.
Workers from the registry and notary offices began a week-long strike this Monday against the critical situation in the sector.
Four offices of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) will be open on Saturdays this month to distribute residence cards returned by the postal service. Immigrants with pending documents will be notified via email. The measure aims to manage a backlog of approximately 10,000 documents without disrupting regular weekday appointments. Participating locations include António Augusto Aguiar in Lisbon, as well as offices in Porto, Vila Real, and Braga, with specific schedules varying by location. Recipients must wait for an email notification before attending, and a fee of 29 euros applies.
Administrative and Tax Courts cite a context of “heavy procedural pressure,” with an exponential growth in filings and priority given to urgent cases such as those against AIMA.
At issue is the fact that, since last year, the annual rotation includes positions that allow Public Prosecution magistrates to perform duties in several departments simultaneously.
At the DCIAP, management is worse than at the local grocery store. With prehistoric computers and shared folders, it takes three years to open an email. Apparently, justice is not blind, it is just really slow.
At the end of 2024, the DCIAP still lacked regulations and was not using the Citius system to process cases. The delays are sometimes absurd: evidence that took five months to travel from Madeira to Lisbon, three years to digitise documents, and two years to obtain laboratory results.
The Public Prosecution Service (MP) is operating in a state of “structural breakdown,” with a shortage of 160 prosecutors across the country, mostly in the first instance courts, thousands of cases assigned to each magistrate, and stalled proceedings, according to a union survey released today.
An inspection report on the Central Department of Investigation and Penal Action at the end of 2024 concluded that the Public Prosecution Service's largest investigation unit lacks internal regulations and is the only department not using the Citius system to process cases, contributing to systematic management failures. The scenario described is one of lack of control, with missed deadlines occurring regularly.
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Attempts to jump the queue and the large turnout at AIMA in Anjos led the PSP to request police reinforcements as a preventive measure to contain tensions and ensure order among hundreds of people.
Angry scenes outside the offices of AIMA (the agency for integration, migrations and asylum) saw police reinforcements called in today, to try and keep ‘order’ among the many hundreds waiting The post Police ‘reinforced’ as immigrants ‘revolt’ outside AIMA offices in Lisbon appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The reason was the long queue recorded during the morning. Police have already demobilised. Also in this news bulletin, an analysis of Donald Trump's latest threats to Iran.
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200 people waited all night to be served in Anjos. Furthermore, the Minister for State Reform does not feel targeted by Passos Coelho's criticisms regarding the Government's lack of reformist momentum.
Gonçalo Matias reinforces that the Government is counting on all parties in the negotiations. Additionally, the strike by AIMA cultural mediators caused disruptions this morning at the offices, especially in Anjos.
Lawyers who resigned from José Sócrates' defence under scrutiny. Also in this newspaper, the strike by AIMA workers and the latest updates on the conflict in Iran.
Alberto Laplaine Guimarães was appointed to the position of secretary-general of the municipality in May 2011, when António Costa was mayor, for a three-year term.
The Bar Association and the High Council of the Magistracy provide a digital tool for access to mega-trials.
Mafalda Livermore, who was dismissed from the Lisbon City Council, responded for the first time on the Grande Jornal da Noite.
The presiding judge of the Operação Marquês trial panel was not notified by the Bar Association of the appointment of a new court-appointed lawyer for the main defendant, José Sócrates. Former Prime Minister José Sócrates has a new defence. The fifth court-appointed lawyer is Luís Esteves, nominated by the General Council of the Bar Association.
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Marco António Amaro requested to be excused by the Bar Association one week after asking to review the case file. He cited a lack of “time” and “cooperation from the defendant”. The Bar Association president says the solution is to “pay a full-time salary” to a new court-appointed lawyer. Sócrates has not yet chosen a new lawyer.
