Portugal hosts over 1 mln foreign residents: AIMA

LISBON, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Portugal's foreign resident population has surpassed the 1 million mark for the first time, announced the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) on Monday. This historic milestone reflects a 33 percent increase in foreign residents between 2022 and 2023.

According to the Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias, 329,000 residence permits were issued during this period. Of t