During the specialist assessment of the State Budget proposal for 2023 (OE2023), José Luís Carneiro said that next year "the restructuring of the SEF will be carried out, allowing the separation of the police functions, control and border management and the administrative functions of reception, integration of immigrants and asylum seekers”.

As part of the break up of SEF, which was postponed until the creation of the Portuguese Agency for Migration and Asylum (APMA), the police powers of SEF will pass to the PSP, GNR and the Judiciary Police, while the current attributions in administrative matters relating to foreign citizens are now exercised by the APMA and the Institute of Registries and Notaries.

The extinction of SEF was decided by the previous Government and approved by the Assembly of the Republic in November 2021, having already been postponed twice.

The minister also noted that in 2023, “the development and implementation of the interoperability of border control systems in the context of the Second Generation Schengen Information System will take place”.

Also next year, according to José Luís Carneiro, “the necessary technological adaptations for the entry into operation of the Entry and Exit System and the European Travel Information and Authorization System will be made”.