Platform for temporary protection of Ukrainian refugees opens this Monday
In the process for temporary protection, citizens can get their tax, Social Security and National Health Service numbers, so they can benefit from these services and enter the labour market.
The Portuguese immigration and borders service SEF is launching an online platform in three different languages on Monday for requests for temporary protection by Ukrainian residents, it announced on Sunday.
The ‘SEFforUkraine.sef.pt’ platform “enables all Ukrainian citizens and their households, as well as any foreign citizen living in Ukraine, to make an online request for temporary protection of one year, extendable for two periods of six months,” SEF explained in a press release.
SEF hopes this platform will “simplify obtaining temporary protection”, which can only be used by citizens over 18 years of age.
Due to their vulnerability, miners need to confirm their affiliation or register their requests for temporary protection at one of the 24 SEF service points exclusively for this purpose, which are open up and down the country and in the Autonomous Region Madeira.
The platform will be operational in Ukrainian, English, and Portuguese as of Monday.
During the process for temporary protection in Portugal, citizens can get their tax, Social Security and National Health Service numbers, so they can benefit from these services and enter the labour market.
The platform also contains information on other aspects of reception and integration of displaced persons.
Until Friday, Portugal had granted 6,178 requests for temporary protection to people coming from Ukraine as a result of the war, according to the SEF.
On 24 February, Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine that has caused at least 564 deaths, injured more than 982 civilians and caused the flight of about 4.5 million people, including 2.5 million, to neighbouring countries, according to the latest UN data.
The international community condemned the Russian invasion in general, which responded by sending arms to Ukraine and strengthening economic sanctions against Moscow.
