u/Conscious-Badger-492

I got a strange email from my bank. It says that an authorization for direct debit was created. (Atorização de débito direto foi criada) for some entity named Easypay- Instituição dePagamento LDA. Oddly, I received the email today 4 July, but it says the authorization was created on 7 July--a date in the future. I haven't authorized anything or taking any actions recently that might cause this to happen. And referring to a future date in the past tense is odd. Has anyone else seen a message like this from a Portuguese bank? Is this a scam?

Is anyone else thinking of just giving up?

Everything an immigrant is supposed to do--I did. Integrate, they say. Learn the language, adopt the customs, celebrate the holidays. Become Portuguese, they say. Pay taxes, but never use public services. Maintain private health insurance, never stress the system or take anything away from the Portuguese. Maintain accommodations, but somehow also don't contribute to the housing crises. Only apply for nationality if you feel you are Portuguese in your heart (and neveeerrr for a single other reason).

I walked this tight rope for five years. My Portuguese friends call me Portuguesa; I speak my native langauge with Portuguese intonation.

This nationality law isn't an inconvenience. I took risks to be here, to become this. It's destroyed all that I've built, everything that I've dreamed.

No one seems to care. Even people I thought I knew hear what's happened, and spew anti-immigrant bullshit straight outta Chega. I've been yelled at on the streets, in cafes. One man identifying himself a judge drunkenly screamed, "Este parque é para pessoas, não para imigrantes."

They tell us to integrate. To become Portuguese. Then spew this hateful shit, and forget that it hurts.

I don't meet the D7 requirements anymore. I expected to apply for nationality, and took the risk to start a nonprofit because I dreamed of helping people. So I earn a normal Portuguese salary. But I expect my renewal to fail. People tell me to fight. To sue.

I don't really have law suit money. But even if I did. What am I fighting for, exactly?

SO my question is: Is anyone just giving up? Cutting your loss and GTFO?

Is it worth fighting to be someplace you're this unwanted?