“Until the Portuguese Agency for Migration and Asylum (APMA)
and the Institute of Registries and Notaries (IRN) assume the competences in
terms of granting and renewing residence permits (…) the simplified procedure
for examining applications for granting and renewing residence permits will
continue”, reads the proposal.
The measure provides that in order to continue to provide
foreign citizens residing in Portugal with a means of electronic identification
to access digital public services, the possibility of subscribing to the
Digital Mobile Key must be maintained at SEF.
What about those of us who qualify for permanent residency early in 2023? Will our temporary > permanent residencies also qualify for the "simplified" residency?
By Bruce Joffe from Alentejo on 25 Nov 2022, 10:30
SEF is not fit for purpose, the online automatic renewal is inoperable and the telephone numbers are never answered. If you email them you receive a response telling you that you will be contacted shortly, but it never happens!
By Greg from Other on 17 Dec 2022, 10:39
My card expires 18 th of jan 2023 and i cannot do online renewal because its still restricted to the cards that expired till 31st dec 2022. Whats for us now? Why dont you make timely update to the exiating measures to renew and issue cards.Its always a big headache to anything related to the documents.
By Kamal Pariyar from Lisbon on 10 Jan 2023, 10:37