Should be in n its way soon, I wished mine was later in Dec so we could do a holiday, hopefully you get to.
All info in detail on the spreadsheet
I couldnât find you username raivikas in the sheet ? any chance you could provide the detail, just wanted to know when you resubmitted your docs? Thanks
Hello, I have a question and hopefully somebody can give me some light.
We submitted the initial documents July 2023, including information and documents for all family (4).
February 2025 we resubmitted all documents as AIMA required.
But now we got a document requesting to pay for the submission of âAutorização de residĂȘncia para investimento - Pagamentosâ
For the 3 dependents, which we just paid.
So my question is the 5 years start counting July 23 or for my dependents is now because we just got this?
Thank you
My husband received his residency 2 years ago but it has since expired, he is waiting for renewal, he added me in July 2023 but I am still âUnder Analysisâ. I flew in to Porto last week and was told I had over stayed as I was here for 4 months last time I entered and was told he would let me in this time but after October I canât return till I have my residency even though we have been living here for 5 years. Apparently the law is changing in October, does anyone know anything about this?
Theyâre rolling out EES in October, which is a Schengen-wide biometrics system and database for foreign visitors. Heâs advising you that he wonât have discretion to wave you through once that system goes into effect.
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So what does that mean? Can I no longer live with my husband in Portugal or is there anything I can do to still come and go?
Iâm a lay-person with no formal competency to answer your question but if I found myself in that situation, Iâd feel that these were my two choices:
- leave the Schengen zone completely until my residence card is issued and physically delivered into my own hand
- stay in Portugal until my residence card is issued
People with a greater risk tolerance might attempt to come back after three months (90/180 day rule), but I would be anxious about my admissibility because of my prior technical overstay. Itâs not good to be refused entry, detained, and deported.
Entering with paperwork documenting a pending residency case is a gray area; it isnât clear how those situations will be handled by immigration officials. A well-known ARI attorney told me that an expired card plus proof of a pending renewal appointment should be sufficient for admission, but nobody knows for sure.
Itâs my understanding that as a resident, you have standing to file a lawsuit with âurgencyâ, demanding that AIMA expedite your case. Many in your situation have been successful. On the other hand, in recent months, few have won such âurgencyâ lawsuits unless they are full-time residents.
Many have been in your situation through the years because of SEF and AIMA backups. There have been several news stories about their difficulties. The stories highlight their dilemma: leave and give up on Portugal, or remain and wait indefinitely to regain permission to travel, missing weddings and other visits with family back home.
Another upcoming complication will be the rollout, scheduled for 2026, of the ETIAS system. This is a mandatory travel permit for short-term visitors from visa waiver countries. Once it is in place, there will be additional obstacles for ARI participants without current residence cards. If and when Iâm in that situation, I will stay in Portugal or stay out of Portugal, as my circumstances dictate, until I receive a fresh card.
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Thank you for that, Our main residence is Portugal but I have new Grandchildren in the UK so it is a dilemma!
Do you really need to have a GV if youâre living in PT? Could you apply for a D7 visa in your right?
For Tax reasons yes we need the Golden Visa
Since we already know that GVs are at the back of the queue - behind 447k Manifestação de Interesse, and then 210k CPLPs after them - hereâs how the CPLP queue is going. Maybe AIMA will get to us GVs in earnest next year??
- 70% of the [CPLP] renewal processes have already been completed and that the rest are in an âadvanced stage of processing.â
- Renewals of CPLP residence permits began in late February. The process includes replacing the paper version with a QR code, which was created in 2022 in violation of European Commission regulations. The new documents are identical to other residence permits, in card format, and accepted in the Schengen Area
Latest, latest stats in todayâs DN (13-Oct 2025)
- Since September 2024, the more than 22 service locations have received 501,771 foreign citizens, of which 214,583 are Brazilian.
- The government claims that it has âpractically eliminatedâ the number of expressions of interest [in its backlog] ⊠fewer than three thousand cases (out of more than 400,000 expressions of interest) remain unresolved
- Currently, the focus is on renewing residence permits and exchanging the paperwork with the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) QR Code.
- Initially scheduled to conclude in the summer, the [Mission Structure] campaign was extended until December to renew more than 374,000 residences that the government had allowed to expire in recent years. This operation began in July
âŠand then hopefully after all those people, AIMA will turn its focus to its Golden Visa backlog and you too can be a happy new card-holder like this 
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