@vanessa.lima what happens if you gain a dependent (get married or have a baby) after switching to GV PR status? Can the dependent also get GV PR status immediately? Or can they only apply for normal D6 (family reunification) which is subject to higher residency requirement?
- Yes. Starts from the issuance date of the first card.
- No, the Services are respecting the original submission date. Yes, considering the notification for the biometrics is sent until the end of the year the services give between 30 to 90 days notice.
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Initial card.
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It can be a reunified family member under the GV rules but as a temporary resident. The PR is only allowed to applicants that hold residency for at least 5 years and prove the language requirement.
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Thanks for your valued information.
“Investor” is understood as Main Applicant.
How is it for the dependents?
The reason is that I am a main applicant and my dependents are 2-3 years behind me in term of card-based residency. By the time I finish 5 years (counting by physical cards), my dependents only finish 2-3 years. What happens to the dependents if the main applicant gets the GV PR and sells the investment? will the dependents be able to renew the normal GV cards know that the investment was sold and the main applicant was granted GV PR ? and later on apply for GV PR?
From what AIMA treated GV Investors, I can guess that the answer is NO. I hope I am wrong. Although I am bad at guessing, my guess about AIMA is pretty accurate unfortunately.
With regards to not needing to maintain the investment, can you provide more information? If I wanted to divest, how long will I have needed to hold my initial GV investment?
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It is still very unclear how things happen when main investor get PR and sells the investment but his dependents only completes 2 years of residency. If the investment is sold, then dependents will not be able to renew the normal GV? And consequently will not be able to apply for PR? The more I analise it in my head, the clumsier I feel about it. Maybe, because of the akwardness and clumsiness, aima will not publish anything related to the topic of selling off the investment after 5 years of GV.
Let´s address this in the Webinar! According to the clarifications provided by AIMA, a GV PR holder can still grant family reunion rights under the GV temporary residency rules, in case the family members did not reach 5y of legal residency required for the GV PR.
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Thanks a lot for the responses, understood!
I’m still not clear on the chronology. Quoting from your OP:
- Applications continue to be processed largely in chronological order (by DUC date).
Starting September 2025 , resubmitted applications will move forward in chronological order of resubmission.
So, let’s say, we have a December 2022 application that resubmitted in June 2025, and a December 2023 application that was resubmitted in Jan 2025. Which one is likely to be scheduled for biometrics first?
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Can minor children get PR after 5 years residence?
I believe unlike naturalization there is no age limit on PR, but it does require A2 Portuguese which could be hard to prove for small kids if not attending PT schools.
Regarding the statement that the current renewal forms only apply to investors, can you elaborate why there is a separate option for “Familiares”. This seems to apply to family renewals.
Good catch, @Garbonzo. A lot of the article was written a little while ago (some publishing delays due to holidays etc), so it’s possible that particular point wasn’t updated after the family renewal option was added.
@vanessa.lima I appreciate your time to put together this webinar.
You mentioned that if the primary applicant moves to a Permanent resident, the family members can still continue to renew as temporary residents (for example, if they dont yet have 5 years of residency).
Is the same true for nationality? For example, the main applicant is eligible to apply for citizenship after 5 years, but the family members are not eligible because their applications for golden visa were made much later after the main applicant.
Can the main applicant apply for citizenship, and the family members continue to renew as temporary residents?
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This was addressed in the webinar: the answer is no. Of course dependents of Portuguese citizens can get temporary residency, but that is normal residence with normal residence requirements (maximum absence of 8 months in first 2 years etc), not GV residence with GV residence requirements (1 week / year)
Apparently quite late to this party, but my wife and I are starting the GV process. Do you think we should wait for January to use the new digital process? I hear the extension to 10 years is non-controversial and should pass easily, alas.
I would not assume the extension to 10 years will apply to existing applicants but, if you are applying before we know the outcome, be fully aware of the possibility of it changing to 10 years.
If I was personally ok with being locked into the 10 years should it pass (plus 3 years to nationality application processing, plus the uncertainty around when the clock to the time that counts towards citizenship), I would be getting all my paperwork together ASAP and try to apply before the rules change. Or, to have everything in order where I could apply (or decide not to) on super short notice before the rules change. That would be your only hope of being grandfathered into the 5 year timeframe or have a legal basis to sue on that timeframe.
Again, I would only do this fully aware that the 5 years could become 10 years and I would not be grandfathered in.
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Realistically assume worse case could be 16 years: 3 years to get card, 10 year wait, 3 years to process citizenship.
During those 16 years they could make further changes eg require GV holders to spend those 10 years in Portugal to apply.
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Personally, after 8 months in this process (I applied in July) I have zero confidence a new digital platform will launch on time and without glitches. It might, but in my mind the first few thousand applicants are basically beta testers. The current system is a pain but at least it’s a known quantity. That said, this whole PT GV thing is a crapshoot so it all really depends on your taste for adventure!
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