Updates from the Council of Ministers which took place today and that start implementing some of the policies announced 3 weeks ago with the approval of the so-called “Migration Action Plan”:
i. assigning the Agency for Integration, Migrations and Asylum (AIMA) the mission to proactively attract immigrants;
ii. assuming and valuing the Migration Observatory as an AIMA body; and
iii. extending for one year, until 30th June 2025, the validity of documents and visas relating to stay in national territory (essential to everyone who has been waiting to renew their cards since the beginning of the year).
It was also approved today a Resolution which creates the so-called “Special Mission Unit for the Recovery of Pending Processes at AIMA”, which will be responsible for analyzing and deciding pending processes and which will operate until 02 June 2025. 300 people shall be hired and fully dedicated to administrative processing of pending processes and assistance to applicants.