AIMA technicians receive bonuses of 860 € per month to accelerate immigrant processes

Agency employees for Migration and Asylum Integration (AIMA) will receive the equivalent of an extra prize minimum wage to streamline thousands of ongoing processes. The goal is to grant or reject 50 cases per day.

“Higher technicians will receive more 860€ and the technical assistants 616€but we have to grant or reject 50 cases per day. If we return to instruction, that is, if we send to lawyers to analyze again, because of precautionary measures or positive criminal records, this process does not count for the 50, We did not achieve the goal and do not receive“.

Thus advances to an AIMA employee, who will integrate the new Mission structure created with the objective of recovering the 450 thousand pending cases. “Public opinion doesn’t know the pressure with which we are,” he adds.

The structure is 5 months, and has already managed to serve 220,216 people in the three centers of Lisbon (64%), Porto (17%) and Sines (3%), with a team of, totaling 450 employees.

According to Expresso’s calculations, it is only necessary to be met in person less than 100 thousand immigrants who submitted demonstrations of interest. In the Hindu Center alone in Lisbon, for example, since September 2024 more than 140,000 immigrants have already served since September 2024.

This week the president of AIMA, Pedro Portugal GasparHe admitted that Aima of increasing response capacity, and consequently having more employees. This year, a reinforcement of 400 staffmore than half of the current 700.

The processes are still, despite everything, far from being completed, and not only with regard to manifestations and interest, but also with regard, for example, the processes of sight gold – There are 40,000 in late back – or family regrouping situations.