Why Portugal? an abastract objectives of immigrants

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Portugal a member of the European Union country satreted to issued residence cards to immigrants since 2007. Foreigners could obtain a Portuguese residency permit by according to a certain government process. Five years after acquiring their residence card, immigrants will be allowed to apply for Portuguese citizenship, while entrepreneurs and professionals are urged to become citizens under special arrangements (ie. golden visa). In this essay author will explore the meaning and immigrant's prespectives (Nepali) of the Portuguese Residency card though doing KURAGRAPHY (the anthropological methodology).

 

Under the Immigration Act, Portugal promotes international students, entrepreneurs, and professionals to acquire residence permits and citizenship. Generally, immigrant have to  register a legal notification of enter in the Portuguse teriotery in the government online plateform. Then they have to application for the Portuguese tax payer number (NIF-numero de identificaço fiscal), a Social Security number, after having these document immigrant have right to search for a job in the Portuguese job market. Individuals who enter Portugal without proper documentation may apply for a residency permit by following appropriate legal processes. 

 

The Card Making Ritual is regarded as a pure rite for Nepalese immigrants to aquaire a Portuguese citizenship. The theories of Ven Zennep's "Rites of Passage" (1960) and Victor Turner's "The Ritual Process" (1966) suggest that this period of "liminality" is either from the past or the future, and that individual responsibilities are sometimes assumed to be changed or reversed during this period of transition. From this perspective, Nepali immigrant individual although they were from high political and social economic backgroung from Nepal, the immigrant individual have to follow the standard immigrant regularization procedures.That creats a common status of the immigrants, I used them to addressing the situation of the communitas and legal liminality.

 
Immigration from Nepal to Portugal is a recent phenomena not more than two decades. Card making has numerous connotations, including regularisation, integration, gaining access to Portuguese public institutions, and social significance. The receiving card for Nepalese immigrants in Portugal is perceived as the golden ticket (for the legal rights to live in Portugal (Europe- It has social prestige in family and society, imagination of individual rights of freedom, access of career prospects, quality of education, access of beter health care, and so on) percived as package of the secure future.

Immigrants conside that the application procedure for a residence card and citizenship in Portugal is simpler than in other European nations, and Nepali immigrants enter to Portugal following a variety of methods and channels. The skyway between Kathmandu, Nepal and Lisbon, Portugal is 8,887 square kilometres. Normally, visa application for the Schengen countires then enter to the Portugal. Besides that immigrants travelling to Portugal over the difficult journey, crossing borders through the jungle in various Portuguese teriotery.

The Nepali Diaspora in Portugal varies depending on the host country's political, economic, and immigration policies. Lisbon has the greatest number of 10,080 Nepalese immigrants, with 16,849 having gained resident cards in Portugal. Consulado do Nepalese in Portugal is diplomatic agency of the government of Nepal, and there are more than 35 Nepali social-cultural and regional communities are working for the social welfare and awareness. Alexandra Cristina Pereira (2019) has finished her Doctorate research on "the sociological study of Nepalese entrepreneurs residing in Portugal." Nepalese students Abhas Dangol (2015), Manika Bajracharya (2015), Sanjeev Dahal (2016), and Asmita Budal (2018) did sociological studies on Nepali immigrants in Portugal for their doctoral dissertations. The major objective of Nepali immigrants in Portugal is to get a residence card, then Portuguese citizenship to get a Portuguese passport, and proceed to possible high-income countries using their Portuguese passports.