# Getting cold feet...Portuguese GV **URL:** \ **Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\ **Tags:** portugal, recommendations, golden-visa\ **Created:** [August 9, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/getting-cold-feet-portuguese-gv/73033 "2025-08-09T16:24:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![Hippopotamousse](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Hippopotamousse](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Hippopotamousse)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 8:36am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/getting-cold-feet-portuguese-gv/73033/31 "2025-08-16T08:36:58Z")
> [@dolfandoug](#): > > Restroactive has never happened there so if you’re in the process the odds are in your favor that it stays 5 years for you This is a highly aggressive interpretation. Personally, the best case I am hoping for is that Portugal grandfathers everyone who applied before June 19, 2025 under the old rules for counting both timeline and duration. At that point, it became clear the government intended to change the citizenship waiting period and the counting start date, and people who apply thereafter should know they are taking a huge risk. > [@Reading through posts, getting cold feet - is the golden visa actually a scam?](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/reading-through-posts-getting-cold-feet-is-the-golden-visa-actually-a-scam/71746/82): > > Yeah, I’m not convinced that anyone applying for a residence permit prior to any changes to the Nationality Law gets voted through will be grandfathered to the 5-year nationality timeline—although some lawyers seem to think there’s a legal argument for it. I’m slightly more hopeful that you might be grandfathered into the provision that the clock to citizenship starts ticking from the time of application, not when the residence permit is issued. Either way, if applying now and being grandfathe… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/getting-cold-feet-portuguese-gv/73033)._