# 2023 GV processing times

**URL:** <https://community.nomadgate.com/t/2023-gv-processing-times/59169>\
**Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\
**Tags:** portugal\
**Created:** [June 6, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/2023-gv-processing-times/59169 "2023-06-06T16:21:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/2023-gv-processing-times/59169/2 "2023-06-06T16:28:43Z")

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Hi, welcome to the forums. There are several main threads covering different stages of the process. If we say that “Stage 1” is the period before filing the initial application, then we have:

- [https://community.nomadgate.com/t/awaiting-pre-approval-stage-2/](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/awaiting-pre-approval-stage-2/)
- [https://community.nomadgate.com/t/awaiting-biometrics-stage-3/](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/awaiting-biometrics-stage-3/)
- [https://community.nomadgate.com/t/awaiting-final-approval-stage-4/](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/awaiting-final-approval-stage-4/)
- [https://community.nomadgate.com/t/ari-holders-stage-5/](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/ari-holders-stage-5/)

In your case the first of these has a lot of posts with people’s current experience of waiting times for pre-approval. Please do check there. Broadly, SEF is still processing applications from the end of December 2021, then it will get on to June 2022, so you will be waiting a while I’m afraid.

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