My lawyer said the same thing. I don’t think you need to worry. Your submission/payment date is what matters with IRN.
Not fully, but attempting to force all requirements back to the point of application.
Not fully on point but just got D7 approval (2nd visa) after 8 months almost to the day after biometrics. I live in Braga and married a PT citizen last year so my residency changed - there is a way to prove residency without a lease under certain unique circumstances but you need to go to the local frequesia to obtain a special form - you would need at least B1 level portuguese AND you need local witnesses who live in the frequesia to get this document but it is possible. Within the last two weeks AIMA contacted me to obtain more documentation. Special note - if you get a new passport like I did or your previous passport expires during the visa stay you MUST save the old one - they will ask for the visa stamps as proof of travel outside PT.
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Does both the applicant and lawyer receive the email notifications or are we held hostage for information by the lawyer like with the ARI application?
It’s a mix. Both applicant and lawyer get email notifications for state changes in the online process (IRN-xxxx/yyyy). Once it went to a specific IRN queue, access code got sent only to lawyer. They gave me the access code, and anyone with the code can check the status going forward. For ARI also (old ~2020 era portal), I would get email notifications on changes and had my own creds to login to the ARI portal. So personally I’ve never been in the ‘held hostage’ situation, though many others clearly have.
I think it all depends on how the application was entered into the system; the backend certainly has some support for notifying multiple entities.
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Now that new legislation is posted, and there is no retroactivity for existing citizenship applications, I’m keen to see if finally we will see November 2023 applications getting being finalized in ACP - Porto IRN. We’ve been seeing October applications getting finalized since last December, and I don’t know any reason why moving onto new applications are getting delayed this much. The delay has becoming arbitrary.
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Actually, the citizenship’s law has been the same since its last version in April 2024. The proposal of new law has not been posted.
The new draft is posted, so we are able to see the retroactive clauses removed by Govt., so @Mr.E is referring to that.
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I thought that the newly proposed law is being reviewed by president. Only after he approves it, then it will be published. Maybe I am missing sth…
Fun story. I had the access code but notifications went to my lawyers. Supposedly. Every 2-3 months I would check in and they would assure me they were “closely monitoring” my application. When I saw on the IRN site that documents were requested, I contacted my lawyers to confirm and was told they were already on to it. This was how it went for 3 years. So when my citizenship approval showed on the site, I thought I’d wait for my lawyers to call me. In the meantime I got on with getting my birth certificate and passport. Figured “closely monitoring” probably meant once a week … two weeks … surely not once a month …? Well, we’re now at 2 months and still not a word from my self-proclaimed top immigration lawyers. Really looking forward to the day they finally wake up 
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They “closely monitor” exactly two things: their bank accounts, and fresh ways to squeeze even more money out of you with a shiny new menu of services now that the part of their business that actually kept them alive is dead.
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Not quite. The text has been published and is open for review by MPs for accuracy. Today is the first day the final text can be sent to the President, starting the clocks. If it is approved, it gets sent to be published. It becomes effective the day after publication.
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Hello. Can you please let us know where you got this info. I have been searching for it or any real info on exactly where the process is. The only thing I found was a posting by Andre Miranda in early April with a forecast timeline. Thank you very much.
I mean in response to this posting. Thank you.
Check out the thread dedicated to the topic 
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Those who applied recently like 2026 anyone got access code ? Or only process no
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I doubt you will find anyone from 2026. We applied October 2025 and still no access code.
I am beyond relieved and grateful that we got our third and final family member’s nationality app filed yesterday! …and now we wait. I am concerned about the language requirement, as the company that we did the 150-hour course lied about the validity of their certificate, so we filed with the certs that we have and are frantically working to take the A2 (myself) and repeat a legit PLA course (my son). Our attorney said to file with what we had and go from there.
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Congratulations, Bonnie!
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If it’s any consolation, when IRN started analysing my file last year, 2.5 years in, they requested uploading of two docs: the power of attorney and language certificate. My lawyers were adamant that both were uploaded on the submission date. Who knows. Point is that it is possible. Separately, a few months later, the Conservador told me to upload documents I’d shared with them on email to my file as supplementary documents. The Conservador also assured me via email that if there were any issues with my application I’d be informed and given the opportunity to rectify them. (For context, our files were lost by SEF/AIMA between 2014-2018, so we only submitted in 2023. I was in a constant froth about all the ways in which things could go wrong and got very insistent with IRN as time went on about my concerns).
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