# AIMA Appointment --\> Did anyone manage to schedule appointment after uploading the documents again **URL:** \ **Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\ **Tags:** portugal, golden-visa\ **Created:** [January 23, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726 "2025-01-23T11:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/flowershack/32/8724_2.png) [@flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/flowershack)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/21 "2025-03-13T23:42:45Z")
News! We submitted my updated documents on March 10 (this past Monday) and today received a biometrics appointment in Lisbon in June. So, progress! ---
**Author:** ![Korion](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b77776/32.png) [@Korion](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Korion)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/22 "2025-03-14T00:34:40Z")
> [@flowershack](#): > > received a biometrics appointment i Congratulations! How did you receive notification? Did the entire family get appointments? ---
**Author:** ![flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/flowershack/32/8724_2.png) [@flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/flowershack)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/23 "2025-03-14T00:44:10Z")
We got an email from our attorneys, saying _“We have just been able to book you and your family for biometrics…”_ So they were able to make the appointment. I don’t know yet if they were able to upload documents for my family or whether the system allowed appointments for all of us even though my documents were the only ones in the system. ---
**Author:** ![Wanderlust007](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wanderlust007](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Wanderlust007)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/24 "2025-03-14T00:53:07Z")
This is very encouraging news! Can you share when your initial application was sent in? We sent in our updated documents at the end of Jan and have yet to hear anything back. Your update gives me hope! ---
**Author:** ![flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/flowershack/32/8724_2.png) [@flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/flowershack)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/25 "2025-03-14T01:04:11Z")
November 2022 ---
**Author:** ![anonymous69](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@anonymous69](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/anonymous69)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/26 "2025-03-14T01:15:11Z")
> [@flowershack](#): > > We have just been able to book you and your family for biometrics Interesting so it implies they did the booking themselves rather than AIMA assigning slots? Seems contra everything AIMA said during their big fancy lawyer conference… ---
**Author:** ![flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/flowershack/32/8724_2.png) [@flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/flowershack)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/27 "2025-03-14T01:21:43Z")
> [@anonymous69](#): > > it implies they did the booking themselves rather than AIMA assigning slots Right!? That’s my understanding from their email but I don’t have any sense of how they did it. ---
**Author:** ![Wanderlust007](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wanderlust007](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Wanderlust007)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/28 "2025-03-14T01:35:19Z")
So interesting, because ours went in June 2022. The workings of AIMA are so bizarre! But happy for you that you are one step closer, good luck! ---
**Author:** ![anon44219890](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@anon44219890](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/anon44219890)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/29 "2025-03-14T01:39:13Z")
> [@flowershack](#): > > So they were able to make the appointment. Question is did they book on ari.sef.pt or at aima.gov.pt ? ---
**Author:** ![ali3](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@ali3](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/ali3)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/30 "2025-03-14T01:41:35Z")
How were you able to submit your dependents documents? It seems like many people could not. ---
**Author:** ![Korion](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b77776/32.png) [@Korion](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Korion)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/31 "2025-03-14T01:58:40Z")
> [@flowershack](#): > > family for biometrics All at the same date and office location? ---
**Author:** ![flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/flowershack/32/8724_2.png) [@flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/flowershack)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/32 "2025-03-14T02:25:09Z")
> [@Korion](#): > > All at the same date and office location? Yes! Sounded too good to be true, from what I’ve read, but that’s what the attorneys have told me. ---
**Author:** ![flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/flowershack/32/8724_2.png) [@flowershack](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/flowershack)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/33 "2025-03-14T02:26:17Z")
> [@ali3](#): > > How were you able to submit your dependents documents? It seems like many people could not. I don’t know if the lawyers were able to submit the docs for my dependents, or figured out some way to get an appointment that includes dependents before their docs had been uploaded. ---
**Author:** ![Korion](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b77776/32.png) [@Korion](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Korion)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/34 "2025-03-14T02:43:38Z")
> [@flowershack](#): > > Yes! Sounded too good to be true, from what I’ve read, but that’s what the attorneys have told me. Congrats! You hit the jackpot on a few fronts! ---
**Author:** ![anonymous69](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@anonymous69](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/anonymous69)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/35 "2025-03-14T03:32:20Z")
I too want this guy’s lawyers 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![tkrunning](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/tkrunning/32/9053_2.png) [@tkrunning](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tkrunning)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/36 "2025-03-14T08:28:50Z")
> [@yzwang](#): > > IMI Daily’s articles are usually promotions in thin disguise, but the stats articles are legit. Especially now that AIMA has stopped publishing approval stats that SEF used to publish. Guess who takes 38.3 months to approve a GV? And guess what their [data source](https://nomadgate.com/portugal/gv-timeline/) is? ---
**Author:** ![yzwang](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@yzwang](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/yzwang)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/37 "2025-03-14T08:42:20Z")
My question for you, sir, is this: Did n=1 for the entire Q4 of 2024? 😂 I noticed the lack of a range. ---
**Author:** ![Augusta](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Augusta](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Augusta)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/38 "2025-03-14T12:20:44Z")
I’m concerned about some recent development that seemingly impacts on GV progress. 1. is CPLP being prioritized in the same way as 882/892? 2. Portugal is getting another round of election for May after current government collapse. My lawyer renewed my documents on March 5, but i feel i shouldn’t get my hopes up ---
**Author:** ![PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/PTbound)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/39 "2025-03-14T13:38:54Z")
> [@Augusta](#): > > is CPLP being prioritized They are… > [@PGV / ARI Rage, Tragedy, & General Madness](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/pgv-ari-rage-tragedy-general-madness/66450/155): > > Confirmation that GV/ARI investors are at the back of the queue, behind those already in PT and 220,000 CPLPs… Backlog of cases awaiting documents ‘reached close to 900,000’, says Leitão Amaro February 26, 2025, Público Brasil The minister confirmed that residence permits for investment were postponed. ‘Our decision was to give priority, first, to those who were in Portugal without any decision. Therefore, they were the ones who expressed their interest. Next, the CPLP citizens, who had docu… ---
**Author:** ![J\_Z](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/j_z/32/7753_2.png) [@J\_Z](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/J_Z)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726/40 "2025-03-14T17:52:51Z")
Been reading this. My attorney have yet submitted my application, but im concerned about document validity. How exactly is document validity calculated? Is it true that as long as at the time of submission, documents are within 90 days, it is fine until the time of bio appointment, no matter how long the wait time may be? Also, if family can only be uploaded after main applicant is checked, does that mean for family member it would be a different 90 day validity period? My lawyer seemed to have expressed there is nothing to worry about as long as submission is within 90 days, but reading here I am not too sure anymore. [Previous page](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-appointment-did-anyone-manage-to-schedule-appointment-after-uploading-the-documents-again/68726.md?page=3)