I also received my biometric appointment this morning!
May 2025 primary application
January 2026 Biometric appointment.
My spouses application has not been acknowledged from July yet.
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My husband (the primary) got notification of his appt today!
Mar 2023 primary initial application
July 2025 submitted refreshed documents (for both under primary)
Feb 2026 primary biometrics in Lisbon
No appointment for me yet. My application was Apr 2023.
I received an email last. night with an appointment for me (primary applicant) for January 23. Not the rest of my family though (husband and two teens)
August 2022 applications sent in
November 2024 lawsuit
April 2025 request for refreshed documents
June 9th 2025 refreshed documents submitted.
January 2025 biometrics for primary applicant.
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Add me to the chorus of others who just received their biometrics appointment.
Submitted my original application in October 2023.
Refreshed documents March 2025
Biometrics scheduled for March 2026 in Lisbon.
Same for us. Applied in March 2023, resubmitted documents in January 2025, and have now been notified through our lawyer that our appointment is in February 2026.
The Layers also mentioned a plausible path to citizenship - Residence Permits for 5 years, during which time investments must be maintained, and then Permanent Residence which is good for five consecutive years.
Applied Jan 25 2025
Appointment March 18 2026 in Porto
Applied May 2025, Appointment in January of 2026 for myself only as the sole investor. Spouse has no appointment.
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Again, very I’m skeptical of this being any kind of good news. In the past, when they were only scheduling 3 biometrics appointments a year, it took AIMA 10+ months to print out each approved residence card afterward. Now that they are scheduling 10,000 biometrics appointments in 3 months, I can only guess it will take AIMA 10+ years to print them. The ARI bottleneck and backlog will remain, but it will be moved from pre-approval and biometrics to a new part of the process - the part where AIMA already has our 6,000 EUR fee.
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100%. like many others on this thread, I just miraculously received my biometrics appointment yesterday after sitting in the queue with no progress for 2.5 years.
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I have not gotten mine yet, but my lawyer says they have gotten hundreds already and seems to expect it soon. But I am not sure if I want to follow through when it comes. Does anyone know whether or not liquidating your investment early immediately cancels an ARI residence card that still has validity, or does it just prevent you from renewing the card once its validity expires? If it’s the latter, and we come to find out in a couple years that the new law’s constitutionality holds up, I’d at least be able to comfort myself that I got a couple years of hanging out in the country out of the 6k fee. Which is silly, but this whole circus has been.
If Portugal had any decency or self respect, it would publish the (revised) Nationality Law before the presidential election on January 18th: the president likely sends the law to the Constitutional Court—> the Court issues its ruling pointing out the unconstitutional clauses—> the parliament passes revised law —> the president signs and the law gets published.
All these GV applicants should see what the final law looks like (as published) before paying 6k+ Euro per card (and 80+ million Euro in total in fees) to the Portuguese government.
So here is the million dollar question: if someone’s biometrics appointment unfortunately happens before the revised Nationality Law gets passed/published, is there cause for class-action lawsuit or many individual lawsuits against AIMA, for defrauding the 6k Euro?
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The entire balance of discussion on this topic over the years leads me to conclude that the investment is only required for renewal, not for maintenance of the residence card, but mine is just a random internet opinion so take it with a grain of salt. Probably better to ask an immigration lawyer.
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Applied May 2023, Resubmitted 12 Mar 2025, No biometrics scheduled yet. 
Application June 2023
Documents refreshed Feb 2025
Biometrics appointment email received today: 29th May - Cascais
application June 2022
Documents refresh Jan 2025
Biometrics appt Lisbon on January 19th, 2026
(also have dependents for whom refreshed documents have not been submitted)
Does anyone know if we can get refreshed FBI background checks during the shutdown?
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I think they’re all busy looking for Jimmy Hoffa right now.
For real though, it’s been reported that background checks will continue to be processed and the state department will continue to apostille them during the shutdown. Probably even slower than usual, but apparently still available in theory.
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Because it is self-funded from the fees (just like passports), it is continuing to work.
Received my biometrics appointment as well (main investor only).
- June, 2022 main application
- Feb, 2025 refreshed documents
- Jan, 2026 biometrics appointment (without dependents).
I recall there was a tracking log, anyone know where that is? Happy to add my stats but will have to do it later as I’m currently traveling.
First application Sep 2022
Resubmitted Jan 2025
Appointment April 2026
The appointments doesn’t respect the time of first application☺️
Yes. I just received mine today and will be sending off to be apostilled.