After almost two months, we are still waiting for my sonās and my residence permits.
They have not even bothered to confirm receipt of my payment.
They have provided no update whatsoever on my wifeās approval, who did her biometrics same day with us.
What a joke. If all government offices operate like this in Portugal, I cannot imagine anyone wanting to live there.
Are you saying that you have paid your DUC but not received the cards?
Whatās the status of your DUC on the portal?
If it do not see it as āPagoā then obviously the cards have not yet been sent for printing.
Check your DUC and letās take it from there.
I have an update to report. I had my biometrics done in Lisbon Sept 30 2022 and today my lawyer received a request for an updated declaration from my bank as well as a full scan (every page) of my passport.
Thanks for the update, glad to hear they are doing something at least. They have now earned a lengthy holiday break!
Paid my DUC on Nov 14th. No card received yet.
No DUC for my wife issued. AIMA have asked for a marriage certificate (which obviously they had recently before).
Absolutely correct. It will be two years since I have moved to Portugal this coming March and I still donāt have a residence card- so being substantially over 60 Iām stuck in a Catch 22- canāt drive on my US license, Canāt apply to change to a Portuguese license since without the residence card, I canāt register the required physical (no residence card, no Numero de Udente, no ability to enter the required physical into the computer of the Health Service. My last remaining hope is that they will count the two years from the date I registered my Portuguese address with Financas and not the date I actually moved.
I, actually, just continue to drive with my US license. If I am to be pulled over, my āalibiā would be that 180 days should be counted from the commencement of the date of the eventual residency card, whenever that might be.
For those of us already in Portugal, letās enjoy the myriad of legal limbos. 
Happy New Year everyone, hope the New year brings us luck and gets the GV process goung on time!
Which month/year do they approve now? We did biometrics in Lisbon in March 2023, havenāt heard anything.
I did my biometrics in Lisbon in October 2022 and still have not received the card. Iāve repeatedly asked our lawyer whatās up and she says to just keep waiting. Does that seem correct?
Did you recieve final approval?
We also did biometrics in Lisbon in October 2022 and havenāt heard anything.
No, we have not heard anything since giving the fingerprints in Lisbon in October 2022.
Rumor is that Lisbon is working on September 2022 biometrics. The database only shows Aug 2022 final approvals.
Still waiting to hear anything with August 2022 biometrics in Lisbon.
I believe there have been very very few final approvals since AIMA took over. Certainly only a couple reported here in months. Last time I asked my lawyer they said everything seems to have paused due to move to AIMA. Seems about right - someone who did their biometrics in Coimbra a little over a week before I did mine there got their final approval about 3 months ago. I cannot believe itās taken them 3 months to process a weekās worth of applications. I think the situation is that they havenāt been doing any.
I guess nothing we can do but keep waiting.
@Selina, couldnāt agree more! I had my biometrics April '23 in PortimĆ£o, still no change in status.
What really worries me is my husband (listed as dependent) submitted/paid mid-January '21 and now going on 3 years with no change whatsoever!! Unsure if his application has been lost or ??? and attorney has no updates other than SEF now AIMA is slow. Incredibly frustrating for allā¦
Just to flag this thread, which appears to be highly significant news for those of us waiting for approvals:
https://community.nomadgate.com/t/wait-time-now-counts-toward-5-year-residency
This is big news and my lawyer is also positive about it. letās wait and see if it will be appliedā¦ Hope to see progress on final approvals. I did not hear any progress in Coimbra in the last three months or so.
āChanges to article 15 (adding now paragraph 4) of the Nationality Law establish that āfor the purposes of the counting of the time of legal residency foreseen in this law, the time between the moment when the temporary residency permit was requested will also be considered, provided that it comes to be approvedā.