AIMA gave all updates until march 2024.. for article 88.2/89.2, so after long time everyone started receiving mails from AIMA for Appointments so be ready with all your documents, AIMA has new staff which is learning, how to work with AIMA, so it will take longer like 6 more months to issue new residency permits with 382 euros, All remain immigrants are mostly south Asians like from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are 24% immigrants for Portugal.
Until end of 2023 AIMA has 362,000 Applications for residency cards, for this new agency in new year will be like Elephant work, they has to verify all applications with work control, regular tax and illegal entry, people has almost 90% with fake contracts on their expression of interests.
CPLP countries are escaped with 15 euro paper, which leads them towards directly for EU red passport and citizenship, so remain mostly Asian people should take appointments for biometrics. People who has fake work contracts should end up with work control, lots of people has SIS (Schengen Information System) problems like they for biometric in other Eu countries like France and Austria.
SEF was more faster then AIMA people believe that but they kick out SEF from immigration race for election benefits recreate it as AIMA but immigrants are suffering because of this. please react on this in your way in below comments…