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10:49 CAT | 27 Sep 2024
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The new CPLP residence permits will allow citizens from those countries to travel to other European countries, the government announced on Thursday. With this measure, the government wants to put an end to the discrimination suffered by Portuguese-speaking citizens in Portugal.
“Citizens of the CPLP [Community of Portuguese Language Countries] have a more favourable regime in Portuguese law for entering and obtaining a residence permit. Part of this regime was closed in practice. It was described on the website, but it didn’t work,” said the Minister of the Presidency at the press conference held after the cabinet meeting, where a bill on border control was approved and will be sent to parliament for approval.
António Leitão Amaro said that this law would allow “uniform documents allowing European mobility” to be issued to CPLP citizens, as well as to everyone else.
According to the minister, this measure will end what the government considers to be the treatment of “second-class citizens” and is part of the new rules on the entry of foreigners.
The previous government granted CPLP visas to Lusophone citizens under the community mobility agreement. Still, these did not allow movement to other European countries, which led the European Union to open an infringement procedure against Portugal.
The Minister of the Presidency also indicated that the CPLP mobility agreement will have “two types of changes”, which needed the approval of this proposal by the government and then by parliament to move forward.
“After the law is approved by parliament, we will revoke an ordinance and start issuing CPLP residence permits in a uniform model, which was one of the essential measures of the migration plan,” he said.
Leitão Amaro said that the other change involves activating a channel on the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) platform, where CPLP citizens who enter Portugal “on a regular basis can obtain a residence permit”.
The CPLP includes Portugal, Cabo Verde, Brazil, Timor-Leste, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Angola and Mozambique.
Source: Lusa
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