Congrats… but for those of us who didn’t luck into “AIMA’s new process for 2025” (I missed it by just 9 days, others on this thread have been waiting years since their Bios for cards) this is just mind-blowing unfair 
Heck, there’s people on the old process who’ve just been trying to pay their final 6k for longer than your new payment to cards experience.
Can we sue AIMA for being sociopathic?
What is your investment? Was it real estate or a fund?
Parabéns ! Can I ask where your biometric appointments were ? We had ours end Jan in Lisbon and our lawyers are still to receive our cards.
Not sure “Fair” and “AIMA” can be used in one sentence. There is no fairness in torturing people like that. At the same time, I guess not everyone is trying to protect their rights by filing a lawsuit. For us it was the key thing that helped. Otherwise we would surely got stuck with the same process.
And I am honestly not sure if the new AIMA 2025 process has anything to do with it, as it was introduced after we got our biometric appointments.
Being in your shoes I would sue crap out of them by that time. Did you try this route?
It’s a real estate
Loja AIMA - Lisboa I situado em Av. António Augusto de Aguiar, 20 Lisboa
Did you pay it with a credit card or debit card?
Thank you. Mine was at the same place also real estate end Jan. No card yet. Paid on the day itself under the new process. GV process volatility as usual 
I also sued, but lost the Portuguese lotto on that one too (see here).
Where you were super-lucky was in getting a Bios appointment in 2025 (new process) instead of '24 (old process). I moved heaven and earth to make a 17-Dec '24 Bios appointment - wishing now I’d said “Sorry I can’t make it, can I do Bios in 2025 instead?”
I knew the PT GV would be bureaucratic. But I never thought it would be so chaotic, senseless and based on pure luck. To quote someone who messaged me privately about this, it’s “a disgrace, and speaks very poorly of the integrity and trustworthiness of the Portuguese State.”
Biometric in Lisbon Jan 23, 2023.
Finally received an approval today nearly four years after applying.
Main Applicant + spouse applied 2 July 2021
Pre-approval 20 September 2021
Biometrics appointment available to schedule: 20 June 2022
Biometrics appointment in Lisbon: 11 November 2022
Lawsuit filed: 6 November 2024
Ruling: 24 March 2025
Main Applicant’s Approval + DUC: 2 May 2025
Spouse Approval still pending
We are very much ready to be done with this application process and move on with our lives! Wishing everyone behind us a speedier process…
Congratulations, where did the approval come from - AIMA Lisbon or AIMA Madeira?
Received my approval email today. Applied 12/21, biometrics 11/23 in Faro. No lawsuits filed. And not sure what office issued the approval as all communication went through LegalSquare. I was asked to pay 6,179.40, so I assume approval has not yet come through for dependents who applied on the same day or shortly after and all completed biometrics with me. Happy to be moving on and seeing more progress across the board.
Congrats - please let us know if you were able to actually pay that 6,179.40
Update: My DUC was finally generated and paid. €6179.40. Final approval was back in February, another casual 2.5 month delay because why not. Will post the full timeline again once I receive the card, because I’m expecting the printers to go down for half a year.
Hi everyone,
I completed my biometric appointment in May 2023 in Lisbon, which I received after winning a lawsuit.
In the ARI portal, my status still shows as:
Status of the application: Application accepted (Situação do Requerimento: Candidatura Aceite)
Is this normal? Shouldn’t it have changed by now to something else, like “under analysis” or “awaiting payment”? Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, I find it strange that under the “Appointment Schedule”, I can’t see any record of the biometric appointment I already attended.
Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks!
Final update to our timeline:
Main applicant applied 31/10/21
Husband and son applied 11/21
Daughter applied 01/22
All pre-approved 05/22
Main applicant and son biometrics Feb 2023 Coimbra
Daughter and husband biometrics August 2023 Faro
Main applicant and son final approval June 2024
Cards printed July 24 and received in August 24
Husband and daughter final approval Feb 2025.
DUCs paid 14 Feb 2025
Cards received early May 2025, with a start date of mid-April.
Congratulations, has Legal Square been able to generate your DUC and make a payment ? They have been telling me the system is down for 3 months now.
They just got it done for me earlier this week. So keep harassing them and they should be able to do it. It sounds like some error where they have to keep retrying?