Hello everyone, I did a biometric collection in Lisbon on November 9, 2022. Today, I received a notice from my lawyer that AIMA requires the air ticket to enter Portugal at that time. We bought a connecting ticket, and the passport only has the stamp of the connecting airport, not the stamp of Lisbon Airport. Moreover, the ticket can no longer be found, and they do not accept the itinerary. I don’t know how to prove it now.
Ask the airline for the confirmation of your travel / copy of the boarding pass?
Submit your hotel bill instead?
Our lawyers advised us to print out our boarding passes for our biometrics appointment. Our AIMA functionary seemed satisfied. (Of course there are no guarantees in this process!) Good luck!
So the entry of your fingerprints into AIMA’s own machine wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove that you were in Portugal?
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They want investors to prove that they entered Portugal legally (not by boat like the illegal immigrants) 
. Very annoying. I think the portuguese officers are happy to make people’s lives more difficult. When they see immigrants suffering, it brings happiness to them.
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If it were just about proving legal entry, then the entry stamp into another EU country would suffice.
If the applicant had a valid Schengen visa at the time, shouldn’t that also suffice to establish legal entry?
As with many bureaucratic functions, its more about satisfying some arbitrary rule, rather than using reason and logic to come to an acceptable solution to a problem.