Tag: AIMA

Decree-Law no. 85-B/2025 extends the validity of residence cards for foreign citizens until October 15, 2025, addressing the backlog in permit renewals.

Portugal's immigration agency AIMA launches enhanced digital portal, streamlining residence permit applications and reducing processing backlogs with new automated systems.

The newly established AIMA agency faces the challenge of absorbing SEF functions while addressing significant immigration backlogs inherited from the predecessor agency.

Portugal completed its immigration administration restructuring on 29 October 2023 by creating AIMA, dissolving SEF and redistributing competencies across multiple entities.

Portugal restructures its immigration authority. SEF has been abolished by Decree-Law no. 41/2023 and the new Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) takes over.