In a hearing at the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, the president of AIMA, Pedro Portugal Gaspar, explained that AIMA's current staff is 674 employees, 2% more than in October 2023, when the institution was created, after the end of the Foreigners and Borders Service and the High Commissioner for Migration.

This slight increase means that the institution "withstood the pressure of mobility" and reforms, explained Portugal Gaspar, recalling that the news reported the departure of many staff from the organisation.

Now, as part of the staff reinforcement, also foreseeing the end of the AIMA Mission Structure - an autonomous and temporary unit to regularise pending processes that will be shut down by the end of the semester -, Pedro Portugal Gaspar plans to recruit around 150 employees, with permanent contracts, coming from public service grants and other services.

Added to this volume is the opening of "competitive procedures during this quarter, until the beginning of April" that will allow the "hiring of 300 workers for the institution" with fixed-term contracts that can last up to three years.

"All in all, it will amount to something like 450 additional workers", which, for AIMA, "is a very significant reinforcement", he told journalists, admitting that the process could be delayed.

In the case of external competition, the person in charge estimates that the number of candidates will be very high, so there may have to be a selection process, which “may take some time here”.

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