The main migration policy instruments in Portugal:

Non-exhaustive list of key policy documents in the area of migration:

• National policies and legislation:
• Consult Portugal’s national law database.
• Consult recent publications of the European Migration Network.
• EU legislation:
• Consult the adopted EU legislation on Migration and Home Affairs
• Ratified international treaties:
• 1960/1976: ratification of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
• 2004: ratification of the 2000 Protocols on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants.
• 2012: ratification of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954.

The main ministries in charge of migration affairs:

• Ministry for Internal Administration: Together with its subordinate authorities (such as the SEF) it is the main body dealing with migration affairs, including immigration (entry, residence); asylum; return and repatriation.
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs: in charge of visa and consular affairs; relations with third countries; diaspora relations.
• Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity: in charge of labour migration.
• Presidency of the Council of Ministers: High Commission for Migration; in charge of integration policy. 

Sources:

• European Migration Network (2017): EMN Country Fact Sheet. Portugal 2017. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/22a_portugal_country_factsheet_2017_en.pdf
• Portuguese National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (2012): The Organisation of Migration and Asylum Policies in Portugal. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/networks/european_migration_network/reports/docs/emn-studies/asylum-migration/21.portugal_factsheet_institutional_chart_october2012_en.pdf
• United Nations DESA-Population Division and UNICEF (2014): Migration Profiles - Common Set of Indicators. https://esa.un.org/MigGMGProfiles/Indicators/indicators.HTM

Last update: December 2018