You can always withdraw your application in that case and reapply at the 5 year mark. It’s not a big deal tbh. This is not a police state (just majorly incompetent to a level that feels malicious). Your next application will be treated fairly.
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Agreed entirely. If the government ever meant to act in good faith towards applicants of this program (the evidence shows the opposite, in my opinion), they should close the program to new applicants and ensure everyone who applied before publication of the news law is covered for citizenship under 5 years + 90 days.
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2.5 millions of native portuguese left their own country to immigrate elsewhere. The number itself speaks about how government treats its own citizens. As a foreigner, I do not expect any promise/improvement/positive change from govt’s side. I fight for what I deserve and pray God that luck stays on my side.
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I heard about the case that gv applicants still didnt get trc after five years, and applied for ctizenship application without gv trc. Some applicants files got lost during SEF AIMA transition phase. i wonder how AIMA gonna give a confirmation about their residency in portugal
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You don’t need to withdraw any applications. You can apply as many times as you want using the same article for different conservatories. Each application will proceed individually until its conclusion. When citizenship is granted, all other applications will be cancelled.
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I do love this quote - @eljefe6a the lobbying effort should start using this too.
Personally, after 3.5 years and still no approval/card, the gold plating on my visa has turned out to be far less than 1µ and has already scratched-off due to AIMA and political abuse.
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Isn’t it called “Gilded Visa” by definition ? 
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More like Tarnished Gold-Plated Visa programme (TGPVP) 
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Now I know that Portugal has best experts at “alchemy” turning papers (500k) into “Gilded Visa”. My hat off to them!
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New Law published today!
https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/lei-organica/1-2026-1123539996
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This means that today is the last day to file your application! For those still on the fence, it is now or… never???
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Those who wanted to apply must have applied. I wonder who is the last lucky one!
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There is a Zoom call scheduled for tomorrow with attorneys of four legal firms to develop legal challenges to the new LdN.
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Thanks for sharing the link, unfortunately I couldnt catch the webinar.
Has anyone managed to attend and if there is anything mentioned in there that wasn’t what we collectively talked about here?
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It depends on what you mean by “safe”. Will the old rules apply? Yes. Will IRN accept your documents or CdT? No one knows.
There’s already some folks chatting about IRN sending them notices for stale PCCs or missing apostille for applications submitted just a few weeks ago. Many applications are incomplete with the idea that exigencia would be issued many months later, by which time the correct documents would’ve been procured.
But IRN is changing the game and spotting these issues in weeks instead of months. If they only take weeks to spot CdT is less than 5yrs, then it’s game over. The hope was always that IRN was so slow that in the many months that elapse before they even review the application, that people would hit their 5yr CdT and have all their documents and their A2 certificate ready.
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Can you link or SS the source?
You’re saying Portuguese state all of a sudden became so efficient that they review your documents within a few weeks instead of a year? That does not sound believable
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It’s not so far fetched. A couple years ago AIMA paid laywer 7.5 Euro to review residency applications. They could pay someone 10 euros to look through each application and find reasons to reject them.
Yes, they can also give permanent residence permit appointments, or bring down the citizenship processing time from 3-4 years to 1 week. Totally not so far fetched