Did you file a lawsuit or everything was normal process?
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A small island named Ponta Delgada in Azores, extremely inconvenient unless you want to take a vacation along with the appointment
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No I didn’t. I’m considering a law suit for my dependents but I didn’t file anything for myself.
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Ponta Delgada is the city, the island is São Miguel! I also did my biometrics there during covid lockdown. Remote but pleasant. The town is so small I was able to walk to my biometrics appointment and my pre-flight covid test.
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Congratulations!
My lawyers informed me.
We should start seeing approvals this month for those who did their biometrics in January 2023. The trend so far has been 23 months from the month of biometrics (Lisbon in particular) 
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WoW!! Please do not skip the entire 2022 batch.
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We did biometrics in late November 2022 (Thanksgiving week) in Lisbon and nothing yet.
You should be up very shortly. I did biometrics in Lisbon in early November 2022 and was approved approximately 2 months ago. However, your case has likely been transferred to a different office (mine is now being done by Ponta Delgada), so I think they are not being dealt with strictly chronologically.
Cards in hand for my wife and I, finally. Timeline below in as much detail as I can find, if it’s useful to anyone
FYI @tkrunning the timeline database asks for the valid from date, but that doesn’t appear on the residency cards I have, I have “data de emissão”
Application submitted: December 7 2021
Application paid: December 13 2021
Application accepted:
Pre-Approval: December 19 2022
Biometrics invite: March 28 2023
Biometrics appointment (Faro): April 13 2023
Lawsuit filed: December 13 2023
- December 14 - case was concluded for the Judge to analyze whether the case was suitable to proceed
- December 15 - judge notified the parties of the decision that the urgent proceedings were appropriate
- December 22 - AIMA filed its response
- January 08 2024 - We were notified of the response and since AIMA did not allege any new facts, the case proceeded.
- February 05 2024- the procedures for attaching documents were completed and the case was sent to the judge for analysis and decision
*July 10 2024 - Call from AIMA in Porto, “saying that they want to deal with your case as quickly as possible” - DUC issued
DUC issued (primary applicant) - July 10 2024
DUC paid (primary applicant) - July 11 2024 - July 19 - the process is awaiting the completion of the internal steps necessary to send it to the “Casa da Moeda” (Mint) and issue the respective Residence Permit - email from AIMA after asking what was going on since we hadn’t heard anything
DUC issued (wife of primary): October 2nd, 2024
DUC paid (wife of primary): October 3rd, 2024
Card received (primary): October 10th, 2024 - Data de emissão: 28 09 2024, Validade do cartão 28 09 2026 (2 years)
Card received (wife): November 26, 2024 - Data de emissão: 15 11 2024, Validade do cartão 15 11 2026 (2 years)
Edit: built-in timeline here
https://nomadgate.com/portugal/gv-timeline/main/?publicId=@garrett
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I’m happy to report my residency card arrive to my lawyer’s office on Friday.
The only wrinkle is my wife still has not received her biometrics appointment which is crazy since we’d like to live on the same continent.
Here is my timeline and no we did not file a lawsuit.
Purchased Investment and Applied in April 2021
Application accepted August 2021
Received Pre Approval on March 2022
Biometrics October 26, 2022 in Lisbon
Final Approval and DUC Payment request on August 13, 2024
Paid DUC on August 20, 2024
Received card on November 30, 2024. (Dated Sept 16, 2024 and valid for 2 years)
Obrigado
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Congratulations!
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Hi Chris and everyone. My Lisbon Aug 2022 biometrics date turned into final approval today Dec 6th 2024. I didn’t have to provide any extra documents.
I had filed a lawsuit that was denied, and the appeal has gone unanswered (which is now moot).
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Congratulations!