You are asking the wrong question. I have heard that some of the donation categories are not stopped but I donāt know if its true. Personally my opinion is that with the chaos going on, if someone is foolish enough to make a donation and trust that things will work out fine, that is on them. I donāt know how anyone can read through some of these threads and feel safe with any mode of investment. Letās be real. Not only is all types of investments seeing delays, even people who have been approved already are delayed, those already with biometric appointments are delayed, those waiting for pre-approvals are delayed. Those who are trying to renew their resident cards are delayed. Several people have been waiting since 2019 or early 2020 and cannot get even a response. Do you see a common theme here?
I am on Fund investment and have been waiting for years up to now
Thank you, and sorry to hear that.
Can I ask which firm?
I donāt think itās the wrong question. Unless you believe Portugal is going to, en masse, steal GV applicantsā money, then the question is one about āwhenā rather than āif.ā The waiting seems awful. I donāt envy anyone going through it.
My goal, as someone starting the process, is to get as far into the process as possible that if there are changes to the program due to the pressure from the EU, I am grandfathered in instead of subject to certain, unknown requirements I canāt meet.
You canāt be āgrandfatheredā into anything if the system isnāt accepting applications. You can do research on real estate/funds but you canāt even apply at the moment. There are myriad articles being posted on this.
Iām responding to the individual who said even if some types of GV applications are being processed or received, as heās heard, why would you trust portugal?
If all are blocked youāre right.
Thank for sharing.
Thank for sharing. The article is quite useful.
The portuguese government has given residence cards to almost 40k ukrainians within 2-3 months. So the ability is always ready and surely they are capable of solving a problem with 10 times complicated, but as you said there is no political will to solve the problem for one thousand GV investors.
Could it be simply that theyāre focused on things like priority processing for war refugees rather than quickly processing rich people?
Well no because they are still processing D7 visas which are for retirees who have passive income or anyone who can prove that they can support themselves. (could be considered rich people no?)
I have seen on other forums that people are getting the D7 visas 4-6 weeks from date of application.
fact to consider. If there are 4,000 applicants waiting for approval + 8,000 dependents. Portugal charges around 5,300 euros per applicant so thats 63,000,000 that is being left on the table by the government.
Also I am planning to cancel my summer trip to Portugal due to lack of approval/residency and putting off any further investment. I know for one person its not significant, but adding up all the lost revenue and taxes to Portugal for all applicants in a similar situation it is quite substantial no doubt.
They are halted now.
Information on when appointments might resume? Nonexistent.
wow more then 6 month .I pray for you that you get card ASAP 
Some of the investors in our pure VC fund (no property) have been approved this year and matters seem to be speeding up. The article clearly refers to zero applications for real estate investment.
I believe some categories are easier for them to process then others. And possibly there have been zero applications processed in investments which are more difficult for them to assess or which are perceived as subverting the purpose of the legislation. But our investors are not seeing these delays.
And our fund is soft closed, so this is not a marketing piece 
Thanks for that info Gavin, it is so great to hear what other people are actually seeing in practice. Your reasoning sounds right.
But, for the record, we are one of the investment fund investors, and still waiting for any response at all on our submission, since December.
Thanks for letting me know. There does seem to be about a 6 month delay - in May we were seeing applications from November were being approved. So hopefully you will hear soon!
When you do get approved, could you please post it on our fund forum or let me know? I donāt hear about all the approvals for our investors.
Will do. Which is the fund forum please?