Tiago Petinga / Lusa
There are almost 4 times more immigrants than in 2017 – Portugal may have already surpassed the 1.6 million barrier.
At the end of last year, 1,546,521 foreign citizens lived in Portugal. They are almost 4 times more than in 2017.
And it was still missing the other 50 thousand who already worked in the country under the “transient regime”, and that did not yet have the complete regularization.
“It is estimated that, with this reviewthe number of foreigners in Portugal in 2024 is about 1,600,000“Thus communicates the agency for integration, migrations and asylum (AIMA) in its latest advanced report by.
Beyond that, Almost 250,000 immigrants were missing Be added to the numbers of 2023, since your processes were also pending in AIMA, denotes the.
“In the coming weeks there will be a review of the numbers, the titles of residence requested and issued, very significant”, last week the Minister of Presidency António Leitão Amaro, responsible for the creation of a task force In the government to give more proceedings to the processes (241,183 people have been attended since September). And so it was.
Beyond these numbers, AIMA also reveals that the EXTINCTION OF THE MANIFESTATION OF INTEREST translates into a 59% reduction in the flow of inputs Since June. “It was found that the flow of entry of foreign citizens who had to obtain a residence authorization went from 156,951 in the 1st semester from 2024 to 64,848 in the 2nd semester of 2024,” written in the report.
The government recalls that “the flow of inputs corresponds to the sum of the manifestation records of interest in the period under analysis with the total visa of work and residence visas of all typologies.”
