Fingers crossed!
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heard back from my lawyer. the ‘accepted’ status didn’t change, they didn’t receive such email from AIMA.
Thanks for returning on this. Good to know. Happy New Year!
My lawyers said the opposite — requesting me to refresh all documents… 
(Completed biometrics June 2023)
Assuming you really meant 2023, that is quite a long time ago. Whereas we did Bios with refreshed docs on 17-Dec '24 and got the AIMA email just 10 days later.
But this is the land of randomness, so I’d never promise that AIMA won’t ask us for refreshes of our refreshed docs 
Interesting, will ask our lawyer for their review. Two family members did their biometrics in August 2023.
Did my bio in May 2023 in Lisbon and have to refresh all documents!
I think at the same time should do a lawsuit against AIMA one more time. I did once and got the time for biometric, now I have to do to get cards!
The funniest investment of my life, starting from March 2020!! 5 years and still continues
Maybe you can apply for citizenship soon 
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Yes, I really meant 2023 
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My family completed our biometrics appointment today in Porto (result of a lawsuit win). A lawyer from the law firm I’m using accompanied us to the AIMA office. The appointment itself involved around 30 mins of waiting to be called in; once our number flashed on the screen, my lawyer went away to a different office to handover our supporting documents, and some moments later we were called into the same office to complete our biometrics. We were out of the AIMA office in an hour. One thing to note: I was not asked to pay the processing fee (we were told that the request to pay would be sent once my documents have been checked).
The AIMA employee was super friendly in the small interaction I had with her. When asked how long the remaining process might take, she said ‘approximately 90 days, maybe sooner to card issuance as to the application was being processed under a judicial process’ - ie because of my lawsuit. Time will tell, but this statement matches what my lawyer had told me in a previous conversation on this topic, so I’m optimistic this timeline will hold.
I had also requested my lawyer to upload all my refreshed documents onto the ARI portal before the appointment today, which he duly did. Having checked the status of my application just now, it shows as ‘Transfered’ for all applicants.
For those that have some knowledge on what the above status means, are their any other status changes after this step?
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Got that same response from my Lawyer …
I spoke to my lawyer and he said it had not changed, maybe because i have already done my biometrics. He is checking with AIMA on this.
Anyone else with the same issue?
IAS sent out a letter to its clients, which in part stated: “these updates pertain solely to pending applications awaiting biometric appointments.”
The status was “Candidatura Aceite” or “Application accepted”.
It was never changed from this since I got the biometric appointment via court case, I guess.
It did change to “Aguarda Envio”, as I noted in my Christmas poem, but when I just checked now, it is somehow back to “Candidatura Aceite”.
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It is still the same: “Candidatura Aceite” or “Application accepted”.