Within the framework of a “State of Law with a human face”, ACIDI have the following priorities:

- To assure the real exercise of equal rights and duties among nationals and foreign citizens and fight all forms of ethnic or racial discrimination or any other expression of xenophobia.

- To reinforce information systems and support to immigrants in order to facilitate their integration in Portugal – whether in paper (brochures), telephone (SOS phone line to immigrants and telephone translation service), electronic www.acidi.gov.pt  or by personal reception (with socio-cultural mediators).

- To create friendly interfaces and integrated solution between Immigrants and the Public Administration, through the National and Local Immigrant Support Centres.

- To deepen knowledge of the realities of Immigration, adhering unwaveringly to the motto “Getting to know more, so as to act better”, through studies carried out by the Immigration Observatory www.oi.acidi.gov.pt.

- To promote the teaching of Portuguese Language and Culture to immigrants.

- To raise public opinion to tolerance and diversity and to galvanise the mass media into making a contribution towards integration and fighting the stigmatisation of immigrants and those from ethnic minorities (namely through the Journalism for Tolerance Prize).