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Contracting or attempting to contract illegal workers

If you wish to complain about someone who has contracted or attempted to contract foreign citizens, who do not have resident permit or working visa, allowing them to carry out any professional activity (in Portugal)

Article 185 of Law 23/2007 of 4 July – Immigration Law

1 – Who, for profit, for themselves or third party, solicit or raise in order to enter the labour market unskilled foreigners with residence permits or visas that enable the exercise of a profession shall be punished with imprisonment one to four years.

2 – Who, repeatedly, practicing acts of the preceding paragraph shall be punished with imprisonment from two to five years.

3 – An attempt is punishable.

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