Brazilians make up 35% of foreigners residing in Portugal, which exceeds 1 million

Brazil has the main immigrant community in the country, followed by Angolans (5.3%), Cape Verdeans (4.6%), British (4.5%)

Brazilians represent 35% of the total 1.04 million foreign citizens residing in Portugal, according to 2023 data from the Agency for the Integration of Migrants and Asylum (Aima) published by the newspaper Public.

Brazil has the main immigrant community in the country, followed by Angolans (5.3%), Cape Verdeans (4.6%), British (4.5%), Indians (4.2%), Italians (3, 4%), Guineans (3.1%), Nepalese (2.8%), Chinese (2.6%) and French (2.6%).

The numbers are subject to change in 2024, given the announced task force to regularize the situation of around 350,000 immigrants with pending cases from the extinct Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) – an operation that should begin in two months, according to Luís Goes Pinheiro, president of Aima.

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The agency’s president says that “there is a vast set of solutions that have already been implemented, and not just to solve the documentation problem”, but that will only bear fruit in the near future. For him, the 350,000 pending cases are “an overwhelming number”.

The current government of Portugal, on the right, has migration policies that are different from those adopted under the administration of António Costa, from the Socialist Party. Among the proposals of Luís Montenegro, the new prime minister, there was a quantitative limit on the entry of immigrants and the attraction of qualified immigration.