Portugal’s caretaker government plans to expel some 18,000 foreigners living in the country without authorization, a minister said Saturday in the buildup to a national election.
Portugal has been caught up in the rising European tide of populism, with its far-right Chega party surging into third place in last year’s election.
Either you are grossly simplifying their extended visa process or you are utterly misinformed.
There is no “automatic citizenship” for Brazilians. The only path to citizenship in Portugal is by bloodline and even that has become harder to get: it used to be that grandchildren of Portuguese citizens could start the process to get citizenship directly, and some good ~15 years ago it changed that only the direct descendants can do it.