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Government appoints Paulo Batista to run SEF for the last few months
The government has appointed Paulo Batista as national director of the Aliens and Borders Service (SEF) to ensure the transition to the establishment of...
Maritime Police rescue 50 migrants in three boats in the Mediterranean Sea
The Maritime Police rescued 50 migrants today, including 12 children, who were on three boats in the Mediterranean, off the Italian island of Pantelleria,...
Almost 1.2 million people checked at borders and 172 refused entry
Almost 1.2 million people have been checked at Portuguese borders since the start of document control in the context of World Youth Day (WYD),...
WYD. Some 673,000 people were checked and 115 were refused entry.
The Portuguese authorities have checked around 673,000 people since the start of the reinstatement of document control at borders in the context of World...
Government sends officials to recruit workers from Morocco, Timor, India and Cape Verde
For the first time, the executive has placed attachés abroad with the mission of attracting immigrants to Portugal. The Minister of Labor assures that...
First weekend of renewed border checks see 163,000 stopped, 65 barred
Portugal's authorities checked the details of more than 163,000 people at the country's borders on the first weekend on which document controls were reinstated...
