A very good straight forward well explained article.
There is a lot of confusion about which queue to join on arrival at Portuguese airports when citizens have a resident card but are from a country outside the European Union.
Before Brexit, this was not an issue as Britons, with or without a residence card, would obviously join the EU queue because they were part of the EU. However, now that they are out, problems are starting to arise for many people who were used to joining the EU queue.
The Portugal News asked SEF to clarify which queue a non-EU citizen residing in Portugal should enter, to which they replied that they should enter the queue for non-EU citizens, because they are not from the EU. In other words, for SEF officials this is not an issue.
According to the Association of Foreign Property Owners in Portugal (AFPOP), “this is something that has been back and forth for some time. The initial answer was that UK citizens who can show a valid……