The Prime Minister said this Friday, November 7, that he had explained to the President of Brazil, in detail, the new law on foreigners, “so that there is complete tranquility in the Brazilian community in Portugal”.
“We spoke about the topics of migratory flows and the relative changes that we are making in Portugal, I had the opportunity to give an explanation, I believe in sufficient detail, to President Lula, so that there is complete tranquility in the Brazilian community in Portugal and among the Brazilians”said Luís Montenegro, after a bilateral meeting with the Brazilian head of state, on the sidelines of the Climate Summit taking place in the Amazonian city of Belém.
During the meeting, which lasted around an hour, the head of the Portuguese Government told Lula da Silva that Brazilians can look to Portugal with the aim of finding “a place to carry out your projects from a professional and family point of view”.
Luís Montenegro stressed that his Government defends “a more regulated and regulated immigration to also be more humanistic and give more dignity to those” who seek Portugal to live.
“And the Brazilian community is exemplary in this purpose because it has very easy integration, both through language and through the cultural values it carries”he stated.
During the conversation between the two officials, the Prime Minister reminded Lula da Silva that, despite the changes to the nationality law, it is foreseen “for Portuguese-speaking countries, the requirement is seven years of residence in Portugal”.
According to the Portuguese Prime Minister, the requirement will “going from five to seven years, contrary to what happens in most countries” who will “require 10 years of residence”.
The Brazilian Constitution provides that Portuguese and others originating from Portuguese-speaking countries can obtain Brazilian nationality after one year of residence in Brazil.
For other foreigners, the period can vary between 10 and 15 years.
The Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, ends his two-day visit to Belém today to participate in the Climate Summit, a meeting of world leaders that precedes COP30.
The Climate Summit brings together delegations from 143 countries, of which just over a third will be led by their respective national leaders, with the confirmed absence of the three leaders of the most polluting countries in the world (China, the United States and India).
Among the leaders who publicly confirmed their presence are the French President, Emmanuel Macron, the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.