5-year to citizenship from application date

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Yes, but you’d have to renew at least once based on the current AIMA/IRN timelines.
If you are hoping not to renew ever, that’s a purely theoretical scenario at this point, very unlikely to work out in reality.

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I mean, pretty likely im gonna need to renew atleast once. Hopefully only once

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Please let me know if your lawyer manages to secure an appointment for the CdT. My lawyer has been waiting over a month and still nothing


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I don’t even think that’s true. The older version has

Oposição à aquisição da nacionalidade por efeito da vontade ou da adopção

https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?nid=614&tabela=lei_velhas&nversao=1&so_miolo=

This was amended to

Oposição à aquisição da nacionalidade por efeito da vontade

https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?nid=614&tabela=leis&so_miolo=

So the part that was dropped was not even connection for naturalization, but for adoption.

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The ‘connections’ text was introduced in 1994 and dropped in 2006. So here’s the 2nd version (19 August 1994), for example:

Section III Article 6

1 - O Governo pode conceder a nacionalidade portuguesa, por naturalização, aos estrangeiros que satisfaçam cumulativamente os seguintes requisitos:
a) Serem maiores ou emancipados Ă  face da lei portuguesa;
b) Residirem em territĂłrio portuguĂȘs ou sob administração portuguesa, com tĂ­tulo vĂĄlido de autorização de residĂȘncia, hĂĄ, pelo menos, 6 ou 10 anos, conforme se trate, respectivamente, de cidadĂŁos nacionais de paĂ­ses de lĂ­ngua oficial portuguesa ou de outros paĂ­ses;
c) Conhecerem suficientemente a lĂ­ngua portuguesa;
d) Comprovarem a existĂȘncia de uma ligação efectiva Ă  comunidade nacional;
e) Terem idoneidade cĂ­vica;
f) PossuĂ­rem capacidade para reger a sua pessoa e assegurar a sua subsistĂȘncia.

https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?nid=614&tabela=lei_velhas&nversao=2&so_miolo=

And in the 5th version, 17 April 2006:

1 - O Governo concede a nacionalidade portuguesa, por naturalização, aos estrangeiros que satisfaçam cumulativamente os seguintes requisitos:
a) Serem maiores ou emancipados Ă  face da lei portuguesa;
b) Residirem legalmente no territĂłrio portuguĂȘs hĂĄ pelo menos seis anos;
c) Conhecerem suficientemente a lĂ­ngua portuguesa;
d) Não terem sido condenados, com trùnsito em julgado da sentença, pela pråtica de crime punível com pena de prisão de måximo igual ou superior a 3 anos, segundo a lei portuguesa.

https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?nid=614&tabela=lei_velhas&nversao=5&so_miolo=

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Oh that’s very interesting. They even had 10 year wait time for people from non-Portuguese speaking countries! Glad it’s easier now.

But like you said, changed in 2006. Seems strange that some lawyers are apparently unaware of that.

And the part where connection is needed for biological children but not adoptees seems very weird to me. Can you get around that by adopting your own minor children?

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finally got it clarified; my lawyer made the request via email last week, now she is waiting for the DUC to make the payment. apparently, this is how they request CdT’s from AIMA on behalf of clients.

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Not having to physically go to an appointment is certainly an improvement!

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This is a quibble, but the change in law wasn’t a recognition of the impact of long delays in the GV approval process. It was passed to deal with the delays in the MI process; that GVs might benefit from it as well was a felicitious byproduct.

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Forgive my ignorance, but who is the DUC? You mention that they need to make a payment before a CdT is requested?
My lawyer has advised me that he has requested an appointment from AIMA so that he can get my CdT, but there has not been mention of a DUC payment?

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yes, the required AIMA fee for the CdT. I guess it’s around EUR20-30. please check back with your lawyer, I can only share what I was told by mine.

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Chris J- I was not referring to completing the biometric appointment when I spoke of preliminary approval. I received a form from AIMA authorizing a move to Portugal following SEF’s acknowledgement of my application. The form stated that the preliminary approval was effective upon receipt of the first application fee. SEF (now AIMA’s) receipt and acknowledgement of receiving the fee starts the 5 year clock.

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Thank-you. Can you please post when your lawyer receives an appointment. Thanks!

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Is an appointment still needed or is it now all remote (you email AIMA the CdT request, AIMA sends you DUC, you pay online, they mail you the CdT)?

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I have the same question. If the payment is made online, do you still need an appointment? Or can the CdT be obtained online?