The Law no. 59/2017, of 31 July proceeded to the fourth amendment to the Law no. 23/2007, of 4 July which approved the Legal Framework on the Entrance, Residence, Exit and Expulsion of Foreign Nationals.
The relevant amendments came to remove exceptional basis underlying the issuance of residence permit to emigrants intended for the employment and self-employment in Portugal.
This shall allow – on a permanent basis and not as an exception submitted to authorization by Foreigners and Borders Service (“SEF”) or Tutelage – the obtainment of a resident permit based on an employment promissory agreement subject to the condition provided by Articles 88 and 89: possession of an employment agreement or a promissory one, or the existence of a labor relationship evidenced by a union, representative of the migratory community with a seat with the Council for the Migrations or by the Work Conditions Authority; have legally entered the country; registered before the social security with the exception for the employment promissory agreement.
On another side, article 135.º, which sets the “limits to expulsion”, now establishes a protection for the person in charge of underage children as well as for the ones born and resident in national territory, exception made to the cases of “founded suspicion of crimes of terrorism, sabotage or attack to national security or sentence for the practice of such crimes”.
The diploma entered into force on the date of its publication.