Luanda - Portuguese ambassador to Angola Pedro Pessoa e Costa guaranteed Friday his country’s availability to grant visas to Angolan citizens who travel to that European country.
He said that visas are secured for national citizens intending to travel to Portugal for medical treatment, study, work or visiting family members.
The Portuguese diplomat said that the issue of the difficulty in obtaining visas is nothing more than a myth of alleged intermediaries.
"This difficulty that some insist on saying, in accessing visas, is a myth or, at least, is closely related to intermediaries to apply for visas for Portugal", the diplomat told the press at the end of the meeting with the National Assembly Speaker, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos.
He said that there are no difficulties now in obtaining, for example, visas for medical treament, work or visiting family members residing in Portugal.
Mobility Agreement
At the end of the mission in Angola, the Portuguese diplomat also praised the fact that the Republic of Angola is preparing the ratification of the Agreement on Mobility between the Member States of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP).
According to the ambassador, this legal instrument could further boost the relationship between the signatory countries.
He said that it is up to everyone to strengthen this relationship and, then, in the legal systems of each State, create conditions so that every citizen who wants to go to Portugal to study, work or for medical grounds, has the opportunity to do so normally, always respecting the legal procedures.
The Agreement on Mobility between the Member States of Portuguese-speaking countries was signed on 17 July 2021.
This was during the 13th Conference of Heads of State and Government of CPLP, which took place in Luanda, Angola.
The legal agreement aims to establish a legal framework that results in the creation of an environment that fosters opportunities and mutual benefits for the peoples of the countries of the Community, with a view to promoting economic, social and cultural development.
The mobility agreement, according to the CPLP, came into force on 1 January only for Portugal, Cabo Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, which have already delivered the respective instruments of ratification to the Executive Secretariat of the organisation.
The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) was created on July 17, 1996, in Lisbon.
CPLP members are Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Principe and East Timor.
