SEF replacement guaranteed by end of the year

• 26 September, 22

The Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Affairs has assured that the creation of the Portuguese Agency for Migration and Asylum, following the restructuring of the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF), will be completed by the end of the year.

“By the end of 2022, we will have completed the process of creating the Portuguese Agency for Migrationand Asylum, which will structurally change the design and the way we welcome and integrate those who arrive here”, said Ana Catarina Mendes.

The minister, as well as the Secretary of State for Equality and Migration, Isabel Almeida Rodrigues, is being heard at the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, to present the work done so far.

Ana Catarina Mendes stressed that this agency follows the restructuring of the SEF, which separates administrative attributions from police attributions, leaving administrative attributions within the agency’s purview.

The minister stressed that the Government wants to improve not only the responses to the entry of migrants into Portugal, but also to integration, adding that work is being done to analyse contributions so that “as soon as possible” the review of the organic law of the High Commissioner for Migration (ACM).

Cre: Portugalnews