CPLP: Portugal ratifies mobility agreement on visas within community – PM Costa in Mozambique

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CPLP: Portugal ratifies mobility agreement on visas within community – PM Costa in Mozambique

3:04 CAT | 01 Sep 2022

Photo: Lusa

Portugal’s prime minister António Costa announced on Thursday that the government has approved the regulations for the entry into force of the mobility agreement in the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), which will facilitate the entry into Portugal of citizens from these countries.

“Today, the Cabinet in Portugal has just approved the diploma that definitively regulates the application of the CPLP mobility agreement, which we signed a little over a year ago in Luanda and which will promote the circulation and mobility within the CPLP space,” António Costa said.

The head of the Portuguese government was speaking in Maputo, at a joint press conference with the President of the Republic of Mozambique, with whom he met as part of the 5th Luso-Mozambican Summit.

According to António Costa, “all citizens from a member state of the CPLP who request any type of visa to enter Portugal, that visa should be immediately granted, unless there is an expulsion order or there is a banning order in the Schengen area.

“Otherwise, the Portuguese consular services should immediately proceed to issue and grant that visa,” he indicated.

Considering that “it is important to strengthen cooperation within the Lusophone world,” the prime minister said that this “is a very important step for the excellence of relations in political cooperation that has existed within the CPLP, economic cooperation also translates into the concrete day-to-day lives of citizens”.

Source: Lusa