I have only used boarding passes showing entry and exit and have had zero problem with renewals.
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exactly! It is also my experience on this issue
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My recommendation is on the contrary, I believe it is worth obtaining the NIF for each GV dependant including minors. Makes everything easier while in PT.
Since 2022 there is no more mandatory tax rep requirements/extra costs.
I cannot see any possible negative consequences of having a NIF.
NIF does NOT equate to the tax residence either.
What exactly does Nif make things easier for visitors in Portugal? I cannot see any…
Thanks. This matches what my experience has been.
For my next trip with my family to PT, I have to do a day trip for work to France. Does AIMA have visibility into flights as they would see that I will leave in the morning and return that evening into Lisbon?
hey may have a way to verify this situation, yes.
Just make sure you spend 7 whole days in PT even excluding your day in France.
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Second. Is the marginal cost of an extra day or whatever worth the anxiety and stress of not having dotted all the Is and crossed your Ts?
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It is better not to take any risk and spend entire 7 days in Portugal
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It sounds ridiculous.
Aren’t boarding passes or border entrance and exit of PT not enough?
Definitely not necessary, but neither is getting NIFs for your kids etc. It was just a suggestion for someone wanting to be extremely cautious. Physical plus scanned (in case of fading) boarding passes should be fine.
A daily photo is way better proof than a receipt with a NIF on it. I really don’t understand that one at all, as all it proves is that someone who knows your NIF gave it to a shop each day…
If you’re thinking like a hacker, a “daily photo” doesn’t prove much either. You could have taken all the photos with a green screen at home and then added different Portuguese backgrounds.
Boarding passes are one of the few things that can actually be verified since the airline checks your ID when you board.
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Nowadays boarding passes are all digital, it’s been a few years since I’ve seen a printed pass. Is screenshot of a digital pass - the QR code acceptable?
I’m sure all airlines are different, but whenever I fly Condor and check a bag, I get a paper boarding pass.
You can always ask the airline to print a boarding pass for you at the time of check-in, they will do it for you.
Yes
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I wonder if AIMA will ever figure out how super, super easy it is to fake a digital boarding pass? And with various AI tools even easier!
So I invest the time to talk to an actual human and get an actual paper boarding pass. Very dinosaur I know, but governments put a bizarre amount of trust in paper.
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Both can be faked but at least in theory AIMA could check against the airline’s/airport’s actual records.
In fact in the US exit control is largely outsourced by border police to the airlines. You may notice how for Schengen you go through both entry and exit passport control, while the US you only go through entry passport control? The US just relies on airlines to tell them who exited and when.