how to check if the file was transferred somewhere or not sir?
Normally we canāt know it until we receive the final approval email. But if your lawyer maintains a good relationship with AIMA, they may likely know where your file is.
Finally got my card, details of my timeline is in the spreadsheet. Did my bio at Lisbon but card received from Funchal
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How long is it valid?
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Till June 2027
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Did you report it as fake and misleading? 
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This is also why people are voting Chega, they are tired of their citizenship being advertised for sale.
Any program like this that becomes too popular holds the seeds of its own destructionā¦
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Well it finally happened. I got approval June 18th, 2024 after 43 months of waiting.
Timeline: Oct 2021 application, May 2022 Preapproval, Jan 2023 Lisbon biometrics, June 2025 approval. No lawsuits, as I didnāt believe in the process.
Now Novobanco has done something to my bank account which renders it useless as I never got a notice about updating details, so apparently theyāve just frozen my account, so now will have to pay a fee to have lawyers pay for the fee. The gift that keeps on giving.
At least Iāll do the 2 years, but this whole thing has been such a mess, mentally taxing, a complete failure in building any trust with the legal frameworks around immigration, and a total disappointment of what was promised as a 10 month visa with a fast track to citizenship, which now has become more expensive, kept my life in limbo for nearly 4 years, and now, moving the goal post for citizenship. Letās see how many months it takes to āprint the cardā, and how many mistakes the card will have on it.
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Took me exactly 1 month from the date of paying DUC
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Does anyone know of a bank without fees that I can open only for the need of receiving the IMT tax back on the property investment I did? Lawyers are saying that I need to have a Portugese based bank account in order to receive that tax back for the developers. I do not need an account, so need the most basic pathetic freebie to fulfill the need of this.
I heard that AtivoBank has some of the lowest feesā¦
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Wonder if it adheres to whatever they need in order to remit the IMT repayment from the governmentā¦ Iāll check witht he lawyers and hopefully this is the answer! Thank you!
Good luck! Let us know how it works out for you.
I had the same issue with the Novobanco. Its for most banks now as it requires a very lengthy OTP which you cannot receive on non Portuguese phone numbers. I had to update my phone number to a Portuguese number and I visited the bank to get a new matrix card issued to the new number.
My lawyers paid my DUC without charging me any thing extra. Even my property management company had to pay my State tax as I was without my bank account for few months. Any attempts to get the documents updated via their APIC email went without any results.
Despite all the gloomy predictions of dark clouds on the horizon, AIMA managed to surprise me once again: after an e-mail form my attorney and a registered return-receipt-requested letter from me, I received a new card today with the correct NIF! It only took just short of three months to correct the clerical error.
Long live AIMA!!!
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Did you have to hand in your incorrect GV card before they started the process ? (Or upon receipt ? Or when ?)
No, I did not. I now have two cards! We will start the bidding at 500.00 ā¬. 
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DMing you for more info
The same happened to me (almost - wrong address on the card). I also didnāt have to hand in the incorrect one. But I was wanted by my lawyers not to use it - the ID number is different on the two. So I donāt think it has any practical use any longer.
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