Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108) - Portugal (Ratification: 1967)

Article 5(2) of the Convention. Readmission to the territory during a period of one year after the expiry indicated in the document. The Committee notes that, in reply to its previous comment concerning the implementation of section 9(3)(e) of Law No. 23/2007 of 4 July 2007, which provides that a foreign national is allowed either to enter or to leave the country provided that he/she holds a seafarers’ identity document for the purpose of the Convention, the Government indicates that readmission to national territory of a seafarer holding a seafarers’ identity document issued by the competent authority in Portugal is permitted in accordance with the Convention. The Committee also notes the Government’s indication that readmissions that were previously administered by the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) are now administered under the auspices of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum, I. P. (Decree Law No. 41/2023 of 2 June 2023). The Committee takes note of this information.