The approximately 150 immigrants from Portuguese-speaking countries in Portugal with pending cases at the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) can, as of today, obtain a residence permit automatically through the CPLP portal.
The new platform for obtaining a residence permit in Portugal for citizens of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) within the scope of the mobility agreement between the Member States of the organization was presented on Friday by the Foreigners and Borders Service ( SEF).
In addition to CPLP immigrants with processes pending at SEF until December 2022, citizens with CPLP visas issued by Portuguese consulates after October 31, 2022 can also obtain a residence permit «fully automatically and online», explained the director. national SEF.
Fernando Silva explained that these citizens can access the CPLP portal, through the SEF and ePortugal.gov websites and apply for a residence permit.
The director highlighted that these grants of residence permits are «exclusively online, without the need for any other type of interaction with the service or physical travel to a service point».
However, in the case of minors involved in the legalization process, it is necessary to go “afterwards to a SEF service point”.
According to the same official, the residence permit for CPLP immigrants will cost 15 euros and the availability of this document in an electronic model will take "as a rule 72 hours".
Fernando Silva advanced that, in a second phase, this process will be extended to CPLP citizens who are in Portugal and who have not yet applied for a residence permit with the SEF or who have done so after January 2023.
The SEF director also said that, in the near future, the 'CPLP portal' for obtaining residence permits will only be available on the ePortugal.gov website.
CPLP citizens who, from now on, intend to come to Portugal do not need to establish any contact with the SEF, having only to go to the Portuguese consular representations in their countries of origin to obtain a visa for Portugal.
In addition to Portugal, Cape Verde, Brazil, Timor-Leste, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Mozambique are part of the CPLP.
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