Hello everyone, I applied in March 2023 via the real estate investment route. After 18 months of no movement, decided to file a lawsuit against AIMA via my law firm:
Date of GV application: March 6, 2023
Date of lawsuit filing against AIMA: September 4, 2024
Date of positive decision from the court: November 13, 2024
Biometrics date and location: January 6, 2025 at Porto
Resident in Portugal: No
Basis: Injunction to protect rights and showed the intent to move by submitting my A1+A2 Portuguese language qualification as part of lawsuit.
@tkrunning could you please add me to the database your maintain?
I submitted my Portuguese language (A1+A2 level) qualification (certificate issued from the PLA) to strengthen my case / show intent. I don’t now if that made any difference to the outcome, but I think it didn’t hurt my chances.
Filed lawsuit March 2024 on grounds of rights: got unlucky with judge lotto and lost May 2024 - on other threads our lawyers , VCA, have been very very successful and we were one of the < 5% who lost first round.
Filed appeal May 2024
Just got news that we won the lawsuit and AIMA has scheduled Biometrics at the end of Jan 2025 in Lisbon .
We don’t have passports that allow visa free access to the EU so this is great for us.
Congratulation! May I know you filed under “Urgency”? I also applied GV Mar 2023, just filed lawsuit mid Oct, not under urgency. I argue with the lawyer, but was told they got successful cases without urgency.
I believe it was not filed as an urgent case. My lawyer shared that around a month ago, AIMA was asked to respond to my complaint/plea, and no one from AIMA responded to defend. Then last week, as the judge was about to write the judgement, AIMA’s email arrived with the lawyer confirming our biometrics dates.
My lawyers told me that it is very difficult to reschedule or reach them. Make your visa ready after a lawsuit and wait result. When they invite you, you have to come.
In our case (notified end of last month), we were given (a) a mid-Dec. Bios date when I was supposed to be halfway around the world, (b) Lisbon when our house, my spouse (on holiday) and our GV advisors are all in Madeira.
For a few angry hours I thought about asking AIMA to reschedule to a place and time that made any sense. But I knew contacting AIMA was futile, and instead spent a couple thousand more changing 3 existing flights + 1 new one (at Christmas season prices) to be in Lisbon.
… as I spent all night on the phone with airlines, hotels, etc. changing dates to suit AIMA, I actually felt a bizarre sense of empowerment. I call a service, someone answers within a minute, and for a serious wad of money does what I want, and commits to deliver said service on the day I asked. And barring weather, war or pestilence there’s an excellent chance they will deliver. Crazy, huh?
- on other threads our lawyers , VCA, have been very very successful and we were one of the < 5% who lost first round.
This is crazy seriously.