SEF restructuring to be completed in March?
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- 17 Feb 2023
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The Government has guaranteed that it maintains "the political objective" of concluding, by the end of March, the legislative process for the creation of the Portuguese Agency for Migration and Asylum (APMA), which will take over the administrative functions of SEF.
"We maintain the political objective of having the legislative process concluded by the end of March. If the commitment was until the end of March, we have to wait until March 31 to be able to verify if the political objective is fulfilled or not," said the Minister of Internal Affairs in parliament.
PSD deputy André Coelho Lima maintained that the SEF only formally exists and "already has been extinguished since April 2021", while IL deputy Patrícia Gilvaz considered the situation "unsustainable" and BE deputy Pedro Filipe Soares said that this security force lives "in limbo".
As part of the restructuring of SEF, which was postponed until the creation of the APMA, the police powers will pass to the PSP, GNR and PJ, while the current attributions in administrative matters regarding foreign citizens will now be exercised by the APMA and the Institute of Registries and Notaries. Read More…
