{"id":58461,"date":"2024-06-04T09:37:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T09:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/expression-of-interest-falls-in-new-migration-plan\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T08:09:11","slug":"expression-of-interest-falls-in-new-migration-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/knowledge\/visas-and-residence-permits\/expression-of-interest-falls-in-new-migration-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Expression of Interest falls in New Migration Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>end of the Expression of Interest requirement to obtain residency in Portugal<\/strong> was the first measure announced during the presentation of the new government&#8217;s Migration Plan.<\/p>\n<p>This measure, now <strong>replaced by the need to present a work contract<\/strong> before entering the country, is included in the long document of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portugal.gov.pt\/download-ficheiros\/ficheiro.aspx?v=%3d%3dBQAAAB%2bLCAAAAAAABAAzNDEyMQcA225SAQUAAAA%3d\" rel=\"noopener\">41 measures proposed<\/a> yesterday by the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The diploma has already been promulgated by the President of the Republic so, as of today, no expressions of interest can be requested in order to obtain residence in Portugal.<\/p>\n<h3>Expression of interest replaced by employment contract<\/h3>\n<p>The <strong>aim<\/strong> is to eliminate another step &#8211; in this case the first &#8211; in the bureaucracy of migrants&#8217; entry into Portugal and thus <strong>achieve more regulated immigration<\/strong> with the obligation to present a work contract to enter Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth remembering that the expression of interest was the mechanism that allowed immigrants whose Social Security situation had been regularized for 12 months to have a legal gateway into Portugal and was therefore considered a highly sought-after mechanism, with many pending issues at AIMA.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about this change or any other made in the context of the new Migration Plan, don&#8217;t hesitate to contact our team of lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/contacts\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the Expression of Interest requirement to obtain residency in Portugal was the first measure announced during the presentation of the new government&#8217;s Migration Plan. This measure, now replaced by the need to present a work contract before entering the country, is included in the long document of 41 measures proposed yesterday by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visas-and-residence-permits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}