In 2025 Portugal returned 69,000 immigrants who are now reinforcing the country's workforce and economy.

Omissions

• The only source located (Expresso) attributes the 'more than 69,000' figure for 2025 to Portuguese nationals who returned to Portugal, not to immigrants — a different population than the one named in the claim.
• No official statistic (INE, AIMA, or other Portuguese government body) reporting 69,000 immigrants returned/left in 2025 was found; the figure is corroborated only by a single secondary source.
• The claim frames the return as a government achievement ('fizemos regressar' / 'we made return'), whereas the source describes a demographic trend of Portuguese nationals moving back, without attributing it to a government programme.
• The source could not be confirmed via a primary publication (only the Expresso headline/listing was retrieved); publication date of the underlying article is uncertain.

Sources

• SecondaryExpresso (Raquel Albuquerque)Headline: 'Mais de 69 mil portugueses regressaram ao país em 2025: é o maior número em três anos' (More than 69,000 Portuguese returned to the country in 2025: it is the highest number in three years).