# AIMA Portal Access for Applicants?

**URL:** <https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-portal-access-for-applicants/73081>\
**Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\
**Tags:** portugal, golden-visa\
**Created:** [August 12, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-portal-access-for-applicants/73081 "2025-08-12T22:43:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![octoberz](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/d9b06d/32.png) [@octoberz](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/octoberz)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-portal-access-for-applicants/73081/1 "2025-08-12T22:43:00Z")

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Do applicants also get access to the AIMA Portal to check their status or only the lawyers do?  
If applicants do then at what stage the access is available?

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**Author:** ![rsade](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rsade](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/rsade)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-portal-access-for-applicants/73081/2 "2025-08-13T14:03:47Z")

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Follow the link below on explanation for how to access to AIMA portal.

Your lawyer may give you reasons for not sharing the email he used to submit your application (privacy of other clients..etc).

> [@Awaiting Final Approval (Stage 4)](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/awaiting-final-approval-stage-4/45969/2842):
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> Just for reference, the following steps were posted about 2 years ago. It may still work! Step 1 Call your lawyer and get the email address they use to login to the ARI portal - you only need the email address they use (NOT the password) - this email is “registered” with the SEF as the one associated with their law firm - unless it is a single lawyer firm, usually they have a special email they use for their SEF portal login, not their actual email. Step 2 Create an account for yourself with…

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**Author:** ![Shoyeb\_Ali](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/shoyeb_ali/32/7631_2.png) [@Shoyeb\_Ali](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Shoyeb_Ali)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-portal-access-for-applicants/73081/3 "2025-08-19T09:01:51Z")

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> In regards to your question about access to the ARI portal, unfortunately, we can´t provide you with this information, for security reasons. Your application was submitted from our legal cabinet, and we have other applicants´ personal data there.

Our lawyer responded as above when I inquired about the status and access. They also sent a screenshot of our application status, but that’s all. The process is moving quite slowly—we submitted our renewed documents in mid-April 2025 and have yet to receive any response.

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**Author:** ![octoberz](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/d9b06d/32.png) [@octoberz](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/octoberz)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-portal-access-for-applicants/73081/4 "2025-08-21T23:35:57Z")

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Hi , May I ask why did you have to submit renewed documents?