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Are you talking about the login for ARI AIMA Portal ? Recently I contacted AIMA in attempt to change my login from my previous lawyer’s to mine (They are unable to change it to my personal email account). The answer is I can pop up at Porto AIMA without appointment for such request. This might not be exactly the same scenario as yours cause you still have unfinished business with your lawyer.
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Thanks all of you for the back and forth discussion on this and link to the other thread. It sounds like a bit more complicated that just putting in the email, but still possible, and possibly necessary to save a lot of headache later on! I wish that I had known how important this was at the beginning, and could have made it a condition of becoming a client!
Finally got my family’s approval today.
Biometrics: Oct 2023 (Lisbon, after a court case). Initial application: Jan 2020.
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Has anyone else been told of card issuance delays ? especially for family reunification ? My wife and daughters Card Issuance Fee was paid start of April. Two months on, no cards have been received and I have been told there are “delays”.
I have been told of delays for card issuance from my attorneys. My card (DUC) was paid for at the end of April 2024 and nothing yet. They told me to be patient.
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Mine was paid on 18th April , printed on 21st May and delivered on 10th June …hopefully the delay is addressed …else expect similar timelines
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Seems totally random…
Mine was paid on 18th April and delivered on 2nd May ( and that period included two public holidays)
I have no idea when it was printed but it can be rapid
We can see how my timeline goes. We paid on Tuesday June 11. Our lawyer contacted the Portimao office the next day asking them to rush the card (according to our lawsuit which was for final approval but ruled the card should come in 30 working days). They claimed that our passports had been reported stolen and they were stuck. This was not true. My lawyer cleared it and they agreed to send the request to print the card. Just waiting now.
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I received the main applicant card in around two weeks after payment. For family reunification it has been a month and counting. Either random, or can this be related to changes in cards? I was reading an article about citizen cards are updated to a new format…
I and my dependent did the biometrics in Lisbon in September 2022. The final approval for the primary applicant came on April 17, 2024. The card was issued in the first week of June, 2024.
However the final approval for the dependent has still not come.
What is the usual time gap between the approvals of the primary and dependent applicants.
I did not file a law suit.
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Dependent will get final approval after issuance of the card of the main applicant. It seems logic to me because it might get very awkward if dependent gets card before main applicant. Hence, they wait until your card is issued to approve your dependent. 
To answer your actual question, my dependent received notification of approval 6 weeks after I paid for my card (Jan - Mar 2024). I don’t know if this is still “usual” as others are complaining of longer waiting times.
My dependent got final approval on the same day as me the primary applicant. However the DUC was only issued for the primary applicant, and my lawyer told me the dependent’s would be created once my card was issued.
I think the issuance of the the card is just basically random hard to find any logic there.
My Wife and Son’ s DUC were paid the same day, however my Son’s card came 10 odd days back and there is just no news on my Wife’s card.
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AIMA supposedly processed 110 thousand applications this month (?!), hopefully this is both true and will expedite our processes. But as always, I remain hopeful but not optimistic.
Hopefully that means AIMA’s getting a handle on how many applications at what stages they have (last month we heard they didn’t really know).
“hopeful but not optimistic” is probably best 
CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC may be the right phrase.
I think most of those are automatic renewals. So, no GVs. But at least it frees up time to focus on GVs (probably only lawsuit GVs though)…
Update: received Final Approval and notice to pay for my 3 dependents last week. Approximately 6 weeks after my final approval.
Now the wait begins for the cards, including mine which has not yet been received.
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