A short note on the state of residency permit renewals in Portugal

[Este post também está disponível em Português .] On July 2, I joined the ranks of the 374 thousand people with expired residency permits in Portugal who are unable to renew them through the sheer incompetence of the government. This bizarre state of affairs started back in 2020, when the government issued Decree-Law 10-A/2020 , which established “exceptional and temporary measures” due to the…