Awaiting Final Approval (Stage 4)

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If they did they’re just guessing. Is a whole thread on this topic here, and the few actual results so far are - in true Portuguese bureaucratic style - very random.

Wait time now counts toward 5 year residency?

We already know it does not in the eyes of AIMA as they still issue contagem do tempo from the date of first GV card. So either some regulations would be issued to clarify the situation one way or another, or we would have to go down the path of individual lawsuits.