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Portugal Has Half a Million Pending Nationality Applications
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On Saturday, President Antonio Leitão Amarao, Minister of the Presidency, had already made an analysis of the number of pending applications for nationality during the debate on the law of nationality.
At this time, according to data published this Saturday by the Government, there are 515 000 people waiting for a decision in a nationality process.
It is the highest value recorded in recent years and refers only to the first six months
The Brazilian citizens, which represent 23.5% of the new Portuguese, are followed. The indigenous citizens, who come from Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan, represent only 7%.
In the debate on the law of nationality, in Parliament, the minister explained that "on the last year, the applications for naturalization of foreigners based on residency have increased five times to 2015 and tripled to 2021". Today, "We have 512 thousand pending citizenship applications, of which only 15% are Portuguese origin and all of them born abroad," said the governor, in his intervention to present the draft government law. Portugal con…
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