ChatGPT would rely a lot of GV promoters’ (hucksters?) material, which always presents a far too optimistic/naïve interpretation of PT Government and AIMA announcements. For example:
- New 2025 AIMA process will speed application processing - We’re 3 months in and only a couple people have reported success here so far. As with everything at AIMA, the implementation has been totally erratic, with people who jumped to resubmit docs per the new process still being ignored while someone who updated their docs 6 days ago got offered a Bios appointment. Any notion of fairness or “first in, first out” is completely alien.
- Wait time counts towards 5-year residency requirement - Yes, AIMA did confirm that in a Zoom call back in January. But it’s still a total crap-shoot how the front line interprets this a year after it was first floated.
- NHR is dead, but its replacement is still very attractive from a tax perspective - It is, but the requirements for the new IFICI are far, far more restrictive than promoters let on.
- Once you get your GV, good luck trying to renew it.
- Those hundreds of thousands of people currently trying to get their visas approved now… will be hundreds of thousands of people trying to get PT citizenship/passports in a few years. That agency is already struggling with its backlog, and the tsunami of citizenship applications hasn’t even started.
- etc, etc.
Basically these things sound great when they are announced, but the actual implementation is f’d up at every opportunity by an overloaded, convoluted bureaucracy. This will continue to be the case as long as there’s hundreds of thousands of applications in AIMA’s backlog.
You need to study the PT threads on Nomadgate to understand the reality vs. the sales pitch. Yes a PT GV is still attainable, but it will take far longer, cost far more, and be much more hassle than you ever could have imagined.