Our original documents were submitted in Feb, 2023. The website won’t let my attorney submit the new apostilled documents at all.
The same thing happened to me. I got the 27 Dec email from AIMA, refreshed my documents, and then my attorney indicated the portal showed my application as “under Analysis” so couldn’t resubmit. They reached out via email and have claimed to have attempted to rectify in person at an AIMA office to no avail. My FBI background check just timed out, so will all need to be refreshed again. My hope is that I’m still in the queue for a biometric appointment and will just need to turn up with new documents then, but who knows…
Original application March 2023.
Updated documents resubmitted March 28, 2025
Looks like the waiting game continues. Lol.
FWIW, our lawyer submitted our refreshed documents just this Thursday 15 may 25. The portal is open for documents upload.
We even filed a new dependent’ application and got the DUC.
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OMG after 2+ years finally graduating from this stage!!! 
Our timeline:
March 28, 2023: Application submitted
Nov 15, 2024: Filed “Urgent” Lawsuit
April 22, 2025: Lawsuit accepted by the Court, AIMA ordered to respond
May 30, 2025: AIMA gives us me and my spouse our biometrics appointment!
July 16, 2025: future biometrics appointment!
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Congrats! I submitted March 2023 as well so I guess there’s movement only for those with lawsuits. Congrats again!
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I am curious why you decided to skip the lawsuit?
The backlog of lawsuits is now 50,000. Is it really still faster than the backlog at AIMA?
Okay. But you can only prove urgency if you’re actually moving to Portugal?
This rely worked for me , got appointment because we were in Portugal and able to conveyed that to AIMA
According to my lawyer, yes. We were able to prove we were moving to Portugal by showing an official, legally filed rental contract we have for a room in a Portuguese friend’s house, and copies of job application emails my spouse sent out for jobs in Portugal.
I finished my biometrics yesterday, and after speaking to my lawyer, I came to know that a new law is coming into force very soon. Under this law, we can apply for citizenship only after 10 years from the date of receiving the card.
Does anyone know anything about this?
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Friends, I have a bit of an issue and was wondering if any of you have experience in this. My lawyer received an email from AIMA stating “there is no unequivocal proof that restoration is done on the property and there is no proof I intend to keep the investment for 5 years”. I have a unit in Evora as a rehabitation project and there was refurbishment work done.
The text in Portuguese is as below.
Have any of you been through or heard of someone going through this? I’m trying to understand if this is a serious issue or a simple paperwork fix that the lawyer can handle.
Thank you!
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As obras indicadas no contrato de empreitada não provam inequivocamente a reabilitação do imóvel adquirido. Não apresenta declaração sob compromisso de honra quanto à manutenção do investimento e certidões comprovativas da situação regularizada
A partir desta data tem 10 dias para proceder às correcções indicadas e voltar a submeter o seu requerimento ao Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras.
Do you have any credible receipts of rehabilitation work on your property? If so, this should suffice.
Generally a legal contractor in Portugal will issue you an invoice with VAT to be paid on top of it for the work to be performed. The receipts do not have to be extremely detailed: something like “work on a bathroom”, “rebuilding of a kitchen” should be enough. However, if you paid someone “under the table”, that would make it much harder to prove a legitimate work on your property.
The second issue (“Não apresenta delaração…”) kind of extends the first one: if you didn’t put an effort in a rehabilitation of your unit, there is not much hope you would keep it for the rest of your required term.
Thank you Roman, I actually have receipts and have uploaded those in the application yet they still came back with such a comment which is quite odd.
I had already submitted a copy of contract for the work, receipt for the work done prior to the work and another receipt for post completion.
Not sure what else would suffice for them or it maybe just another way for them to reject the application…?
I guess the only thing to check would be if the cumulative value of the receipts is sufficiently high. For rehabilitation projects, I was once told that the expectation was to spend somewhere upwards of 10% of the original price, and also to raise the energy efficiency level by a couple of grades. Unfortunately I have not been able to verify these requirements independently.
Could you please share your time lines, initial application date and date of document resubmission ?