What exactly are you expecting to happen? I am absolutely confused 
Congratulations; just to confirm my understanding: you applied one month ago for a golden visa and you got the pre-approval today? This is really too good to be true
Either user misunderstanding (my guess) or the SEF is gonna start just rubber stamping pre-approvals to clear up the backlog
Then biometrics will be the pain point, I assume
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no, of course, i mean status was changed a month ago. Application was submitted 12/21
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At long last:
Applied December 20th, 2021
Pre-approved June 2nd, 2023
Dependents added September 2022, not sure if they’ll be approved soon along with me, or a decade later once SEF gets to the 2022 crowd.
Now I wait for biometrics…
Keep up hope December applicants!
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Americans Are Leaving Portugal as Golden Visa Honeymoon Ends
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-08/getting-a-visa-for-portugal-americans-who-made-pandemic-move-are-leaving
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Article is Paywalled
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You can afford a golden visa but not Bloomberg? 
I thought we had standards here
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short summary:
Americans get there, discover it’s not all it’s cracked up to be, leave.
- no houses, what’s there costs more than they believed
- administrative roadblocks everywhere even after you figure out how to do something
- takes forever to get anything done
- poor service
- uncaring attitudes
“The country was never set up to welcome this many expats at once,” he said. “A lot of people come for a year and leave after six months.”
“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” she said of the small adaptations to life in Portugal — including what the Californian described as unexpectedly cold winters.
In other words, they discover that Portugal is, well, Portugal, not a cheaper 51st state.
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Another article incorrectly blaming the GV for real estate prices and rent increasing, hooray!
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Applied 12/23/21
Pre-approval 6/6/23
Awaiting biometrics appointment
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It has been a week since the last report of a pre-approval case. did anyone receive pre-approval recently and what is the feedback- if any, from your lawyers regarding pre-approval status?
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Last week my lawyer reported one pre approval for 12/23/2021
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We may have entered the summer holiday doldrums, where SEF takes a well-earned three month break from not doing anything.
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15 days a go application and paid but we are waiting for Confirmation of documents in embassy in my country then sef preaprroval we have along journy and worried a lot is there another one that applied this month?
two years only for preapproval stage?
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Yes, you have a long wait.
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Yes. I applied December 2021 and I’m still waiting for pre-approval.
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Applied 27/12/2021
Pre-approval 19/6/2023
Biometrics Appointment 14/08/2023
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Looks like they have collapsed the delay between pre-approval and the ability to get biometrics appointments. That’s good news.
We got our approvals mid last year and the invite for biometrics took 6 months.
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