Does the GV open any opportunities for residency/citizenship elsewhere in the E.U.?

Residencies & citizenships Portugal Golden Visa
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Seeing as an individual on a Portuguese Golden Visa can live and work anywhere within the E.U., I was wondering if the visa could theoretically be beneficial toward securing residency elsewhere in the E.U.?

Hypothetical example: would having the visa and the ability to work in the E.U. make you a more attractive candidate for a job in another E.U. member state since they wouldn’t have to jump through the same hoops to get you your work papers in that country?

Is anyone aware of others who have settled elsewhere in the E.U. after receiving their Portuguese residency card, and subsequently put themselves on track for long-term residency in another member state?

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Fascinating premise! Citation needed.

This claim has never held up previously, but maybe this time will be different.

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This is not true. Portuguese GV (even the PR) does not give you any right to live or work in the EU, only Portugal. Your rights outside Portugal are more or less like having a Schengen visa - you can spend a maximum of 90 days out of the last 180 in the outside-Portugal zone.

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I believe that you can apply for PR in another EU country on the back of your GV PR, avoiding the Schengen shuffle / 90 day rule.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2003/109/oj/eng

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Given that the GV PR does not allow you more than 90/180 days in non-PT Schengen countries, you would not be able to achieve 5 ‘continuous’ years in said non-PT country, right?

(6) The main criterion for acquiring the status of long-term resident should be the duration of residence in the territory of a Member State. Residence should be both legal and continuous in order to show that the person has put down roots in the country.

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Article 4, Duration of residence

  1. Member States shall grant long-term resident status to third-country nationals who have resided legally and continuously within its territory for five years immediately prior to the submission of the relevant application.
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It’s a great question - would our 5 continuous years of having a residence permit (required for PR) count, or would we have to show a continuous address in country?

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My read of “put down roots in the [second] country” and “resided legally and continuously within its territory for five years” tells me you’d need to have properly lived in that non-PT country… which you can’t do on a PT PR (or temp residence for that matter) because of Schengen 90/180 limits :confused:

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I have an EU long term residence visa in another EU country.

Portugal Article 116 allows conversion to a Portuguese Residence Permit.

However, multiple lawyers over a considerable timespan were unable to get an AIMA appointment for the application.

All contact rejected by AIMA for that purpose.

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