# Early Applications for Citizenship

**URL:** <https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/PTbound)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2026, 7:44am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/232 "2026-05-03T07:44:04Z")

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Building on @mdusanic’s [earlier post](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/226)…

1. **Número de submissão:** This is provided when you file your Nationality application. It’s in the format “IRN‑xxxxx/2026,” and goes through these states:  
Em Pagamento \> Submetido \> Em Verificação \> (maybe Em Correção) \> Verificado \> Finalizado
2. **Número do processo:** This is assigned once the request is officially filed.  
I’ve seen people refer to process numbers in the format [“2026/22XXX”](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/citizenship-processing-delays/74811/339) (Porto) and [“49xxx/26, 59xxx/26”](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/citizenship-processing-delays/74811/363) (Porto and Lisbon IRN).
3. **Código de consulta/senha de acesso:** This is what is commonly called a “tracking number” a.k.a. “access key, access code” in the format “xxxx-xxxx-xxxx” which can be used to track your application’s progress here:  
[https://meu.registo.justica.gov.pt/Pedidos/Consultar-estado-do-processo-de-nacionalidade](https://meu.registo.justica.gov.pt/Pedidos/Consultar-estado-do-processo-de-nacionalidade) … and it goes through these states:  
Submetido \> Em análise \> (maybe Aguarda resposta if IRN needs more docs) \> Para decisão \> Concluído

#2 and #3 probably arrive around the same time.

- Prime says people are waiting 5 to 7 months.
- [This post](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/citizenship-processing-delays/74811/288) said _“Porto Central Archives takes 6 months to give the tracking number. [Lisbon] Central Registry – about 2 months.”_
- And then we have [this 8-May post](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/citizenship-processing-delays/74811/361) where a couple received their _Número Processo (xxxxx/26), Submissão (IRN-22xxx/2026), and Código Consulta (xxxx-xxxx-xxxx_) in about 2 weeks!?

#1 and #2/3 live in totally different databases, [as explained last December by the registrar of the Civil Registry and director of the Central Archive of **Porto,** Isabel Almeida](https://revistaentrerios.sapo.pt/postagens/representante-do-irn-diz-analisar-um-processo-de-nacionalidade-por-dia-e-escancara-lentidao-governamental/):

> Once the preliminary review has been completed, the application is assigned an access code for tracking purposes and is assigned to the registry office that will process the request.
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> Isabel, however, stated that **until the access code is actually sent to the applicant, there is no record of the application in the system.**
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> “There is no point in sending the original documents to the Registry Office because nobody knows where the application is; it has no application number. Until we submit it via our platform, there is no administrative application,” she explained.

…note [Thomas’ update below](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/early-applications-for-citizenship/75366/233) that Porto and Lisbon IRN seem to work differently w.r.t. submitting docs post-application.

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