Awaiting Final Approval (Stage 4)

Hi - I’m “old process” (next week will be a year since our Bios in Lisbon) and have been at least 68 days in “Transferido SIISEF” state… I’m checking the SEF website at least twice a day :confounded_face:

It’s hard to know what “Transferido SIISEF” really means these days, other than more of the usual maddening AIMA randomness. What I’ve read is…

4-Sept '25:

24-Oct '25:

And finally from our PT lawyer…

[“Transferido SIISEF”] is typically when AIMA starts the final verification, which can still take a few months because it requires consultations with SIS (Shengen Area information System) and with the Government in order to check the inexistence of a criminal record in Portugal… and those consultations are also suffering delays.