Early Applications for Citizenship

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In case you haven’t seen this in the other thread (this forum is getting a bit messy, many overlapping topic threads)…

What impact will the Constitutional Court ruling and new President have on the Nationality Law?

For those of you who have not met the five-year residency requirements but will still apply for nationality, here’s some advice/clarification from immigration lawyers on the Expats Portugal podcast (basically, don’t trust false promises and save your money). The online application portal for lawyers does a pre-assessment on an applicant’s eligibility for naturalization. Some of the lawyers are bypassing this system and hand-delivering the application as if they were the applicant to avoid the pr…