We moved to Portugal 6 years ago from the US under the GV plan. We shipped all our stuff, got a tourist visa for my non-US wife, and flew to Europe, travelling around while our household goods were en route. We moved into our house, our goods arrived at the port BUT until we got our residence cards the Portuguese embassy in Washington wouldn’t give us the paper we needed to legally import our stuff duty free. We had a lawyer call them explaining everything had been approved, but until SEF actually issued the cards we would’ve had to pay ~42% (including on shipping) to get it released. You all know how fast SEF is. It took a couple of months and we paid around $1000 storage to keep our container in the port.We love Portugal but the GV is way over priced and we are often wondering if we dare leave the country with our not yet renewed residence cards.