Fantastic news! Here’s hoping this is a positive sign for other Lisbon applicants 
My husband and I are Faro Biometric applicants (April ‘23). Anybody got anything to report about Faro? ( might have missed it, but I don’t recall seeing anything recently about this office 
)
We’re in the same boat, my wife and I did ours on the 13th of April in Faro. Haven’t heard anything, but we did file a lawsuit. No news on that yet either
No updated documents requested before I received news. Approval just came out of the blue.
I was going to ask you how you were getting along with your lawsuit Garrett. You are my benchmark Faro Nomadgater, as I did my Biometrics in Faro on 27th April ‘23 (after my failed 6th April appointment due to the SEF strike 
). So two weeks behind you!
We keep wondering whether to file a lawsuit, so any updates you can provide will be much appreciated. Have you been given any indication by your lawyer as to when you should expect to see progress with your case?
Just curious - given the changes in the Nationality Act currently awaiting promulgation, why would someone start a lawsuit now?
Gosh - sounds like I’ve missed something and need to research that! TBH … I haven’t been on Nomadgate for a few weeks, so I’ll need to check that out. Thanks for the heads up!
@cj807 The news about that dropped a month or so after we initiated the lawsuit, but the cost isn’t much to sue so I’m not worried about it either way.
@orangeblossom Nothing so far, lawsuit was said to take 3-4 months to hear anything back. I can ask my lawyer in person early february, but for now I’m not worried about it.
Please ask your lawyers how they got TWO answers out of the court so quickly. Everyone else is getting a 3 month timeline for an answer.
Sounds like this may not happen anyway. Always good to have multiple plans.
Because you want to actually live in Portugal.
Congrats @Calpoidog
I wonder if you got the approval because of the administrative action.
I hope that final approvals have started and other members also get approved.
The scenario where you want to live in PT but a GV still makes sense might be the rarest of all. You want to live there but not spend any time there?
Most people could just save themselves the trouble by applying for D7/D8. Or just going there on vacation, not leaving, then applying for a visa.
I want to spend 4-6 months there a year without fighting immigration
I applied for the Golden Visa because I was applying in 2021, when I literally couldn’t travel to Portugal, and because I wasn’t sure I would be able to spend eight months out of every year working remotely. I didn’t want to get two years into my D7 residency and then have to move back to the United States and lose the time I had already invested towards citizenship.
Of course, at the time I also didn’t think I’d be waiting three years to get a residency card.
On the plus side, that fight would take a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time!
No, I’d just not be let in
Yep same here, we did it in ‘21 because they promised a three month turnaround, and we wanted to move in ‘23-‘24. Ironically, and frustratingly, it looks like that path is going to end up taking more time than having just applied for a D7 in ‘24.
Congrats Chris! Nice to see some positive news here.
Congratulations! That is such a good news!!
Same situation as us. Yes - ultimately we hope for citizenship, (and the possibility, if it comes to pass 
, of changes to wait times to initiate an application are indeed very welcome, given our significant wait times since the GV application). But right now we just want to be able to spend time (up to, but not exceeding 182 days a year) in Portugal without having the restrictions imposed by 90/180 rules, so that we can come and go as we please.