# Early Applications for Citizenship **URL:** \ **Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\ **Tags:** portugal, golden-visa\ **Created:** [December 23, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366 "2025-12-23T19:04:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![nnl](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@nnl](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/nnl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 5:40am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/81 "2026-02-27T05:40:40Z")
> [@benjamin.hatten](#): > > What firm are you using E dge International ---
**Author:** ![loheiman](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@loheiman](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/loheiman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 5:59am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/82 "2026-02-27T05:59:33Z")
Interesting strategy of filing the applications in person to avoid the preliminary review. I do wish the constitutional court would just make it legal to file before all requirements are met as that would serve as a solution to extremely long processing timelines. ---
**Author:** ![tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tommigun)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/83 "2026-02-27T10:31:27Z")
Yeah, I am not sure what that statement really meant > [@What impact will the Constitutional Court ruling and new President have on the Nationality Law?](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/what-impact-will-the-constitutional-court-ruling-and-new-president-have-on-the-nationality-law/76152/45): > > The online application portal for lawyers **does a pre-assessment** on an applicant’s eligibility for naturalization. Sounds like some lawyers bashing the other lawyers. And @nnl has just submitted early online so what’s with the ‘pre-assessment’? (although if I were him I would have waited at least until mid-April for the A2 but the best of luck to him anyway) ---
**Author:** ![anon44219890](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@anon44219890](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/anon44219890)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 10:44am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/84 "2026-02-27T10:44:21Z")
> [@tommigun](#): > > Sounds like some lawyers bashing the other lawyers. 100% As for early, the government has already signaled that they plan to reject these. Can this be appealed? Maybe. I am not so sure about the “pre-assessment”. Are you telling me that IRN has AI built into its systems that scan the filings and determines if they are adequate? I don’t believe it. Possibly they mean a “self certification process”? ---
**Author:** ![tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tommigun)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 11:59am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/85 "2026-02-27T11:59:01Z")
> [@anon44219890](#): > > As for early, the government has already signaled that they plan to reject these. Where did you spot that? Can you share the source? ---
**Author:** ![tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tommigun)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/86 "2026-02-27T12:00:40Z")
> [@anon44219890](#): > > Are you telling me that IRN has AI built into its systems that scan the filings and determines if they are adequate? I don’t believe it. Of course not. And how can IRN do the ‘pre-assessment’ of the 5-year term of the candidate if they need to obtain this info in the form of CdT from AIMA, which in itself takes 3 years? That’s why I said what I think it is 😏 ---
**Author:** ![PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/PTbound)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/87 "2026-02-27T12:17:58Z")
> [@tommigun](#): > > how can IRN do the ‘pre-assessment’ of the 5-year term of the candidate I assume it’s not as simple as counting 5 years from the issue date of your Título de Residência that you enter (_honestly,_ obviously) on the [IRN’s Modelo 6.1 application form](https://irn.justica.gov.pt/Portals/33/Impressos/Nacionalidade/Modelo%2520%25206.1.pdf)? ![Screenshot 2026-02-27 at 12.10.36](https://c-assets.nomadgate.com/optimized/2X/8/88b1f96319204ba43c3e1b1b4233699f131f1419_2_690x73.png) Presumably the online platform that lawyers use to file Nationality applications checks that date?? > [@What's the potential impact of the 2025 Portuguese election on the Golden Visa program and pathway to citizenship?](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/whats-the-potential-impact-of-the-2025-portuguese-election-on-the-golden-visa-program-and-pathway-to-citizenship/71816/2248): > > First, it is important to observe that the current [online] platform through which citizenship applications are filed has mandatory fields relating to the residence permit – number and validity - data that those without cards do not have - so the submission of an application under these conditions would always have to be made with certain abstract data or left blank. ---
**Author:** ![tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tommigun)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/88 "2026-02-27T12:39:45Z")
This date is irrelevant because the 5 years are counted from the date of application, not from the date of the first card issuance. That beside the point that the card data entered here would NOT be the first card in most cases. ---
**Author:** ![nnl](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@nnl](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/nnl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/89 "2026-02-27T14:00:39Z")
> [@tommigun](#): > > (although if I were him I would have waited at least until mid-April for the A2 but the best of luck to him anyway) Thanks @tommigun, thanks for the wishes. Trust me, I would have waited too. But mid-April, the course concludes and the certificate issuance takes longer. I just took a chance. ---
**Author:** ![anon44219890](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@anon44219890](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/anon44219890)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/90 "2026-02-27T14:21:31Z")
> [@tommigun](#): > > Where did you spot that? Can you share the source? They did not say this explicitly, but was some new procedures shared in a recent meeting of stakeholders. Unfortunately I dont have a link or transcript of the meeting. ---
**Author:** ![selimakin](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@selimakin](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/selimakin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/91 "2026-03-06T10:50:47Z")
if this was asked-answered before, sorry for the repetition. in person over-the-counter citizenship applications, do they check the initial application date (paid DUC) during the intake at IRN? 2024 ‘residency clock starts from initial application’ ruling was never regulated, therefore I believe the date still refers to the first card on the application. ---
**Author:** ![tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tommigun)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/92 "2026-03-06T11:27:59Z")
> [@selimakin](#): > > I believe the date still refers to the first card on the application. You believe wrong.. ---
**Author:** ![servettasman](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/servettasman/32/6258_2.png) [@servettasman](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/servettasman)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/93 "2026-03-06T12:44:17Z")
hi Tommy. so, resident since date on the citizenship application is now (since 2024 April) the initial application date, is that right? ---
**Author:** ![tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tommigun)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/94 "2026-03-06T13:50:10Z")
No, in the case of ARI it’s the date of the initial application analysis DUC payment. ---
**Author:** ![servettasman](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/servettasman/32/6258_2.png) [@servettasman](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/servettasman)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/95 "2026-03-06T14:08:06Z")
got it, I should have explicitly stated ARI above. ---
**Author:** ![Lala](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@Lala](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Lala)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/96 "2026-03-06T15:36:36Z")
IRN USER MANUAL FOR LAWYER’S ONLINE SUBMISSIONS Dropping this here in case someone finds it useful to know what the online submission process and interface looks like for lawyers. [manual-do-utilizador-prof-irn\_nacionalidade\_v2.pdf](https://community.nomadgate.com/uploads/short-url/h0MoPULhyagf4WSsU9JkTWt0zo7.pdf) (1.7 MB) ---
**Author:** ![PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/PTbound)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/97 "2026-03-06T16:45:54Z")
> [@Lala](#): > > IRN USER MANUAL FOR LAWYER’S ONLINE SUBMISSIONS Great find! ⭐ Couple interesting bits in that deck… p18: _“O sistema não valida o conteúdo do documento (estes são analisados depois pela Conservatória).”_ ![Screenshot 2026-03-06 at 16.40.21](https://c-assets.nomadgate.com/original/2X/6/683c1aafaf95292fa1dd80cbfa19311d61b28682.png) p35: _“No caso da análise da Conservatória ser bem sucedida, ou seja, não detetar nenhum erro/lacuna, o pedido é então “finalizado” e dá entrada na base de dados do sistema de suporte à tramitação dos processos de nacionalidade. Quando esta validação ocorre, o pedido em causa deixa de estar em “Análise IRN” e passa para o tabulador dos “Submetidos””_ ![Screenshot 2026-03-06 at 16.43.02](https://c-assets.nomadgate.com/original/2X/5/58e7bd277016a5590a33fff10eec5aec157929d5.png) ---
**Author:** ![layover\_guy](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/71e660/32.png) [@layover\_guy](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/layover_guy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/98 "2026-03-16T21:09:52Z")
Based on new information and session Schedueled in April, what do you guys guestimate is the last date to submit early application under the current regime/law? I am trying to delay it as much as possible and submit at last minute/day to get highest chance. I complete 5 years from date of application in December 2026 so about 8 months early still. ---
**Author:** ![tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tommigun](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/tommigun)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/99 "2026-03-16T22:11:21Z")
Good news is that your 8 months are not really that in the Parliament’s calendar, due to the summer recess from approx 15 Jun to Sep, so it’ll be more like 6-7 months. But still a lot I know.. ---
**Author:** ![jb4422](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jb4422](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/jb4422)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/100 "2026-03-17T15:54:25Z")
15 June is a ways from now, it seems like they might get something done before then. [Previous page](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366.md?page=4) [Next page](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366.md?page=6)