Portugal’s parliament approves amended immigration law after veto
By Sergio Goncalves
Lisbon (Reuters) -Portugal’s right -wing parliamentary majority, the Constitutional Court’s family members who want to join the family members of the family members of the family members of the previous version of the previous version of the previous version of the previous version, a revised bill aimed to prevent an increasing entry of immigrants confirmed.
All left -wing parties voted against the bill, which led to a slight alleviation of such restrictions, and only touched upon the most critical points brought to the agenda by the Constitutional Court, which could create more obstacles to entering into force.
As the legislation tries to defend the highest right of the right in migration, governments reflect the right change in politics in most Europe.
The revision was proposed by the ruling center -right coalition and has the support of the extreme right, anti -immigration Chega Party, despite the first objections to immigrants who have reached social security payments from the moment they began to contribute.
While the Parliament maintains the general necessity of a two -year valid residence period in order for immigrants to ask for permission for spouses to join them in Portugal, this period can now be halved for couples who are together for more than one year without moving to Portugal.
Immigrants can now demand that children under 18 years of age or disabled addicts to join them regardless of the legal residence period.
Cabinet Minister Antonio Leitao Amaro said the revised bill was “neither open to immigrants or closed to immigrants, neither open to immigrants’.”
“… But the time of an irresponsible (immigrant) policy is over,” he said before the vote for the deputies.
About 10.5 million people of Iberia have seen a significant increase in migration in recent years.
Migration and asylum agency AIMA estimates that more than 1.5 million foreign citizens in Portugal last year, and that they doubled twice three times ago.
The Brazilians are the largest group with more than 450,000 legal immigrants.
(Reporting by Andrei Khalip and Gareth Jones by Sérgio GonçalveSiting)
