Thanks Liam.
Did you receive any email from SEF at the time of your pre-approval? And was it separate for each family member or they send one email once everyone is pre-approved (âacceptedâ)?
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The emails all went to my lawyerâs address. Your lawyers should be getting all the emails from SEF. I only have access to the ARI Portal.
Ok, understood, thanks.
My lawyer is not getting anything as he is not registered with SEF so I could not add his email address to the portal.
Anyway I was expecting SEF to email both the applicant and the lawyer. Like they emailed me the login/password to the portal itself.
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Applied and paid 14 September. Pre-approval early Jan 2022
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Guys, for those of you who applied for GV along with the âfamily reunionâ - how long was the time gap between the main applicantâs and the family pre-approvals? And did you receive just one âacceptance notificationâ email from SEF for the whole family or multiple emails (one per each person)?
Mine was a month behind and that was with the biometric being a month behind.
It processes separately.
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Dependents came first then applicant a couple of days later. All separate emails.
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Approvals came together.
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We are still waiting. Applied late August 2021. Main applicant approved in December. Lawyer says the delay is normal and he expects things to pick up now that the election is over, but weâre getting worried
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Had my parents biometric appointment Feb 1st in Faro branch. All went smoothly except for a wrinkle which Iâm not sure is normal for re-unification.
The branch requested that my parents apply for their own NIFs, so that SEF can ensure they have no outstanding debtsâŠwhich doesnât really make sense because if my parents had debts, it would be under their Passport number and not a NIF that does not exist.
Regardless, Iâm getting them NIFs and will run debt check and submit documents to complete our application. Just wanted to send that out into ether as a data point.
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Have not heard of that before so it must be a requirement specific to Faro branch.
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Please update us when you receive your pre-approval. We submitted ours in late December so we still have a few months to go.
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I wanted to add my data point to the conversation, although Iâm not sure how useful it is now.
Applied Sept 17, 2021
Preapproval January 7, 2022
Biometrics - Still waiting
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Update on the timeline now that the rest of the family have been âacceptedâ:
Applied/paid Oct 7-18, 2021
Pre-approvals Jan 28, 2022 - Feb 8, 2022
It is rather unfortunate that SEFâs mail gun has apparently broken down, so no more notifications by email to be expected (at least for the applicantâs email, not sure about the lawyerâs). Had to check the portal regularly to catch the pre-approvals.
Now will have to do the same for the âagendamenteâ of biometrics.
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Applied mid-October, still waiting with this message:
â NĂŁo Ă© possĂvel concluir a candidatura porque o tipo de investimento aguarda regulamentaçãoâ
Update:
Feb 10: Just received âapplication acceptedâ
I applied for family reunion about a week after the main applicant. I do not know when the family members were approved (I had figured that all of us were approved at the same time). I did not realize their status was on different screens. In any event, it is now a month later, and, upon checking, I see they were also preliminarily approved, but I have no idea when. Thatâs probably not super helpful to anyone.
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Applied Oct 12, received pre-approval 2-8.
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This is actually v helpful. I applied a month after you, so I probably have at least a month more to go?
My application is pending pre-approval since the 27th of October, Is it normal?
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I havenât seen pre-approvals for applications after 7 & 18 Oct. on this thread, with ~16 weeks to pre-approval: (Awaiting Pre-Approval (Stage 2) - #59 by tommigun). Hopefully, you will be notified shortly. 
Do update us!
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