The link @karimj shared is correct. For future reference youāll also find it at the very top of this thread:
Youāll also find it under the Golden Visa > Portugal menu on nomadgate.com:
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Congratulations! My timeline is similar: pre-approval Oct 2021, but biometrics were in January of 2023. No word on approval as yet.
No I didnāt file a lawsuit. Coimbra seem to be processing end of Feb 2023 biometrics as someone who did theirs just after mine recently got approved too.
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Has anyone seen any approvals from Faro lately? There have been no approvals from Faro in the tracker for a really long time.
Still waiting 
April 12 iirc, 2023
Many thanks for the response, and congratulations once again!
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Another small update:
Application (main): 24 November 2021
Application (+3 family): 29 November 2021
Pre-Approval (main): 29 July 2022
Pre-Approval (+1 family): 12 August 2022
Pre-Approval (+2 family): 23 August 2022
Biometrics (+3 family: Porto): 30 January 2023
Biometrics (main: Lisbon): 9 February 2023
Summons Filed: 16 November 2023
Judge Ruled (Denied): 12 January 2024
Summons Filed Again: 5 February 2024
Judge Ruled (Approved): 3 April 2024
Additional Document Requested: 16 April 2024
DUC issued (main): 6 May 2024
Payment made (main): 10 May 2024
Card dated (main): 17 May 2024 (2 year expiration)
Card received (main): 7 June 2024
Still no word about the dependents, though, despite the lawsuit specifying 10 working days after my approval (going on a month now). Iāll continue to hang out in this thread until that is done (so 2-3 more years?? 
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Congratulations on your primary card.
If the primary applicant paid the DUC, then the dependant DUCs should be available for generation in the SEF portal (if that portal still exists). Easy to check if you have your own login/pwd independent of your lawyer.
Given the pattern we see, I donāt think these are being processed in parallelā¦ It seems like there is some central bottleneck which focusses on one center at a timeā¦ They did Lisbon recently, now doing Coimbra, we need to wait for Faro turn 
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Next update for our case. We received final approval today. See relevant dates below. Both main applicant and spouse approved
Application: November 5, 2021
Pre approval: June 2022
Biometrics: January 5, 2023 PortimĆ£o
Lawsuit filed: early December 2023
Won lawsuit: mid April (30 working days to make decision)
Final approval: June 7
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We donāt have our own login, unfortunately. I would hope that our lawyers would already know to do that, but it doesnāt hurt to check.
Thereās no harm asking your lawyer for the login. You can check the status yourself without having to depend on the lawyer.
Good luck.
Weāve asked for that before, but have not been able to get it, since they have multiple clients registered, unfortunately.
They can ask AIMA to provide one to you. I think thatās what my lawyer did when I asked for it long time ago.
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Dont accept this bullshit. The AIMA portal specifically allows to setup a lawyer email and a client email. If they chose to not put your email as the client email, that is 100% on them.
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Just switch to another lawyer who would be willing to provide your access.
You may lose a few dollars on the switch but save yourself a lot of grief for the next 5-8 years. Not having your own access to the SEF portal is the top cause of frustrations on this forum (while at the same time being easily solvable).
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@taufiq.choudhury @anonymous82 @tommigun : Pushing again for direct access is definitely a good next step, and Iāll do that when they are open again on Tuesday (I think Mon is a Portugal Day, so a holiday). If they keep saying now, I have seriously been thinking about TGās suggestion. Itās possibly not just a few dollars (though I get the sentiment) - more like a few thousand dollars/euros, given the stage of the proceedings - but the frustration has a cost as well, of course.
Apparently there is not only a lottery of lawsuit outcomes, but also of lawsuit processing. Some of us have lawsuits filed in Dec 2023 that still havent been processedā¦yet others already have answers on 2024 lawsuits!?
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Laura, goes without saying, itās your right to have access to your account. So, you donāt have to make any financial sacrifices to assert that right. If you do get that access, thereās no point in switching lawyers as I get a sense that youāre otherwise not unhappy with your lawyerās performance. And youāre probably at a waiting phase that no new lawyer can help to make shorter.
Iāve put in several thousand euros in this game. Iāve no doubt youāve done this too. In your place, Iād want to stop the hemorrhage. Iād simply email the lawyer at regular intervals and ask for the login explaining that you know this can be done without compromising the confidentiality of their other clients. If theyāre not complying, and if you want to go the distance, tell them youād very reluctantly have to complain to (or seek lelp from) the Portuguese lawyersā regulatory body in case they keep stonewalling.
My feeling is that theyād be very prompt in sending you the login after that.
Good luck.
Are we saying that the lawyer that has one login for multiple clients can also create a login and move the client to their own account? I havenāt been able to access mine because of the same situationāthey have multiple clients that they are managing through one loginā¦