Three bidding processes have been published in the Official Gazette of the Union to fill 64 vacancies in various categories.

The larger competition aims to recruit 50 workers for AIMA stores. Most of them with two employees – in Albufeira, Faro, Portimão, Beja, Portalegre, Évora, Odemira, Bragança, Guarda, Viana do Castelo, Viseu, Alverca, Cacém and Odivelas -, while those in Lisbon and Setúbal will be reinforced with four employees, Cascais with six and Porto with eight.

The competition will be open for ten working days, counting from the day of advertising on the Public Employment Exchange (BEP). The workers will occupy the position of technical assistant, with an employment contract in public functions for an indefinite period.

The second competition, with the same deadlines and procedures, aims to fill “ten jobs in the general category and career of technical assistant, from the AIMA personnel map”.

The third intends to reinforce the National Center for Asylum and Refugees (CNAR) with four people who will enter the AIMA staff map in the general category and career of a technical assistant.

The Government defined as a priority the reorganisation of AIMA's powers and the reinforcement of resources so that the agency functions “fully, equipped with the necessary resources to ensure a quick and effective response in matters of documentation, reception and integration of immigrants in the country”, reads the State Budget for 2025. For next year, 19 million euros are allocated to AIMA.