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The Government has determined that all immigrants with pending residence permit applications at the Aliens and Border Service (SEF) will now be in a regular situation and have access to the same rights as all other citizens, including social support. The measure also covers asylum seekers.

The reference date is 18 March, the day of the declaration of the State of National Emergency, and covers applications made under the Aliens and Asylum Law for those who want to work (under Articles 88 and 89) and for those who want to exercise teaching, highly qualified or cultural activities (Article 90), or other situations of applications for granting or renewing residence permits under the general regime or exceptional regimes.

The order, published on Friday evening, states that the document of the appointment at SEF or the receipt with the application, as well as the so-called expressions of interest or applications issued by the platforms of the service, will serve as proof. These documents "are considered valid before all public services, namely to obtain the user's number, access to the National Health Service or to other health care rights, access to social support benefits, the signing of rental contracts, the signing of employment contracts, the opening of bank accounts and the contracting of essential public services". According to SEF later clarified, they will function as temporary authorization during. Media player poster frame

The document published in the Official Gazette aims to "unequivocally guarantee the rights of all foreign citizens with pending cases" at the SEF, it reads.

In a statement to the PUBLIC, Eduardo Cabrita, Minister of Internal Administration, who is in charge of SEF, said: "In a State of Emergency the priority is the defense of health and collective security. It is at these moments that it becomes even more important to guarantee the rights of the most fragile such as migrants. Ensuring the access of migrant citizens to health, social security and stability in employment and housing is a duty of a society of solidarity in times of crisis".

SEF has not yet provided the number of immigrants with pending applications. But it did clarify that the counters of this service thus close their doors and the services scheduled until 27 March resume from 1 July in chronological order. In other words, the documents with the requests made to SEF do not dispense with the process initiated before, which will have to be resumed when the services return to normal. The applicants will have to wait for contact from SEF, and those who have already made the appointment do not need to do it again, said the press office. Coronavirus: Odemira has 500 places for immigrant quarantine Coronavirus: Odemira has 500 places for immigrant quarantine

According to a recent government directive, visas to stay in Portugal which expire after 24 February are valid until 30 June.

The SEF also admits the urgent appointment, by decision of the regional directors of the SEF, to citizens who need to travel or who prove "the urgent and unavoidable need" to be absent from the national territory, to "citizens to whom the documents have been stolen, stolen or lost". Concerned associations

Last week, some 20 associations expressed their concern to the government about these cases; they wrote a letter asking for solutions. In that letter, the signatory associations stress that those workers who are settling, and who have already made social security deductions, must be safeguarded from entitlement to allowances in cases where they are intended for other workers - if they have to remain in quarantine, if they become contaminated, if they have to stay at home to look after children under 12, or if they are made redundant by temporary or permanent closure of the companies in which they work. They also want to be entitled to unemployment benefit in the event of dismissal. What happens to immigrants who deduct but are not yet regularised? "This will be a calamity" What happens to the immigrants who discount but are not yet regularized? "This will be a calamity"

To the PUBLIC, Flora Silva, from Olho Vivo, reported days before: "There are many people waiting for their residence permits and it's not their fault, it's the responsibility of SEF's delays. From one moment to the next they are out of work and not covered by anything. It's them and their families. This is going to be a calamity".