Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa has announced that his Government has approved the regulations for the entry into force of the mobility agreement in the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), which will make it easier for its citizens to enter Portugal.
“Just today, the Council of Ministers in Portugal approved the diploma that definitively regulates the application of the CPLP mobility agreement, which we signed just over a year ago in Luanda, and which will promote circulation and mobility within the CPLP space,” António Costa said.
The head of the Portuguese government was speaking on Thursday, 1 September, in Maputo, at a joint press conference with the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, with whom he met as part of the 5th Luso-Mozambican Summit.
According to António Costa, all citizens of a member state of the CPLP, who request any type of visa to enter Portugal, that visa should be immediately granted, unless there is an expulsion or interdiction order.
“Otherwise, the Portuguese consular services should immediately proceed to issue and grant that visa,” he indicated.
Considering that “it is important to strengthen cooperation within the Lusophone world,” the Prime Minister argued that this “is a very important step for the excellence of relations in political and economic cooperation that has existed within the CPLP to also be reflected in the concrete day-to-day lives of citizens.
