Lack of resources to implement new immigration policies

On April 1st, the Portuguese Government officially launched the “green way” program for immigration, a new protocol that promises to make it easier to hire foreign workers by national companies. The measure, which takes effect today, and whose individual or group visa application processes...

Consular services will have to respond within 20 days to requests for work visas, but they are still struggling with “glaring gaps” in human resources, says the union.

“I wanted to say that today is a great day for those who defend regulated immigration, that is, the idea that we cannot be in the system we have been in so far, in recent years, which is a system of gaping doors, which has, in fact, led to many complications, even for the lives of those who want to work in Portugal, which are so necessary,” Paulo Rangel told journalists after the inauguration of the XVI Regional Government of Madeira, again head…

Lack of resources to implement new immigration policies

The Union of Consular Workers (STC) has warned that there are no human resources available to execute and meet the deadlines set out in the “green lane” for hiring immigrants, which came into force today.

The measure allows companies to contract directly abroad, after the end of expressions of interest was decided by the Government last summer.

The Consular Workers Union warns that there are no human resources to execute and meet the deadlines set out in the “green road” for hiring immigrants, which took effect this Tuesday