I can give you the answers now:
- Pastel de Nata
- Avril 25
- Bacalhau
- Cristo Rei
- Vinho Verde
You’re welcome.
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…and in Madeira 
6. Cristiano Ronaldo
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Let me suck your right t…t dry and now your left…
Is whats hapening…
Changes to the Nationality Law approved this Monday in the Council of Ministers also determine that a child will only be Portuguese if the parents have already lived legally in the7 country for three years, and must make this request.
Important: The residence period now starts counting from the date the residence permit is granted, not from the date of initial application.
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Thank you for the optimistic update, but honestly, I can’t help but laugh. 
Mess up Portugal’s reputation? Hasn’t that already happened?
What’s been going on for years now, how is that even possible? It looks like state-level misconduct, and yet nothing is done. People just accept it. Everyone keeps quiet, as if this is normal.
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I can’t speak for others, but if they go through with it, I’m out… plain and simple…
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A comment I found on Reddit that is the most accurate description in my opinion (Warning: condescending):
I will give you the real truth Zé. The real intellectual honesty.
Portugal is not a dominant power or a country that attracts people for better living standards; aka money. So, to fix it, you need foreign money. What can you offer? Cheap and fast EU citizenship. You know people will only come for it, and they do; because you are selling the only valuable thing you have except wine and olive oil: being part of the EU.
Then time passes. They bring their money with this new plan, but they fck the housing system because you didn’t build enough houses; or you didn’t think about how people might exploit the Airbnb schemes, so this fcks the housing even more. Meanwhile, to look culturally appropriate, you make this “coming to Portugal” thing easy for all. Voila; people from all over countries torn by poverty, human rights abuses, hygiene issues, and the lack of any other Western values flood in. Especially the poorest among them, because they don’t have any other choice. They’ll do whatever they can to survive.
Now they are here. And they are a lot. They don’t integrate because you didn’t know they would come in such numbers. You didn’t prepare anything to help them integrate because you needed quick money; not long-term investment. You didn’t want to work; you wanted to sell easy. Like a dad who sells the house to go on holidays.
I’m sorry to tell you, Zé, but there’s no such thing as free money in this world.
So you weren’t prepared. And now you suffer in another way. The average Portuguese is poorer, while a tiny rich minority quadruples their already-rich wealth. You’re still paying 5 bucks to drive 30 kilometers on a three lane “highway”, owned by an old buddy of an old politician. You’re angry. Now you want them to go. Viva Portugal! Let’s get the good old days back.
You think the problem is these “weird-looking” people. They’re being exploited by other Portuguese and living ten people in a T1 apartment. But somehow, they’re the issue; not the exploitation. So let’s fix it. Let’s kick them all out or make it difficult to come and stay. They bring their families too, and women don’t even work in their culture. Damn, man. Let’s make it difficult for them to come too. Now we have a solution.
Yes, perfect. Good job, Zé. You saved the country.
Now all the people who escaped from dire public shtting, working for 5 bucks a day, bad facilities for any imaginable thing will go back to their old lives. But skilled people who literally came here for EU citizenship (don’t be too proud, Zé. we both know your passport doesn’t mean a thing. Even your youth leaves the country . Foreigners came for the EU banner you sold at the very beginning) those people will stay here in the country.
Yep. Exactly the opposite of what you wanted will happen. The educated and the wealthy will leave. The poor and the desperate will stay. Your logic is wrong, my dear Zé.
Now you’ve lost the skilled workforce and the money you were getting by selling your citizenship. Yes, you were selling it for money. Don’t play it politically correct. Now housing prices might go down a little, but judging from the used car market, I still suspect the greediness of Portuguese sellers will stop them from lowering the prices. So you’ll still have your expensive housing circle jerk, just among yourselves.
You’ll still be stuck with all those “I don’t want you in my country” people. They won’t leave. Even if they have to stay here illegally, they will; because they have to survive.
And here we are, back at the beginning of the journey.
You’re still poor. Politicians still steal. And your youth still escapes the country, only to return as avec for the summer in their expensive cars (which we both know you also don’t like them).
But now, unlike before, you’re also stuck with the people you wanted to kick out.
Now you’ve got a new minority to blame, after the gypsies.
Nice job, Zé.
Don’t change a thing. Here is your truth.
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The approval of changes by the Council of Ministers is not the final step in the legislative process. There is a long way to go yet.
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From the Portugal Resident website:
" Following the proposed changes to the nationality law, there has been a veritable stampede by immigrants requesting nationality at registry office throughout the country.
STRN, the Syndicate of Registry and Notary Workers warns it is at breaking point already, with around 700,000 applications ‘in the system’, and new ones arriving every day."
And besides the 700,000 citizenship cases in the system, there’s also this problem:
"“The veritable rush to the registry offices is exerting unsustainable pressure on services that were already in a state of disrepair, aggravated by a critical shortage of human resources, estimated at around 40% below real needs”, says STRN.
According to the syndicate, there is a shortage of 266 registrars and the 120 in training will only be ready to start work at the end of 2026.
There is also a shortage of 1,867 registry officers, and only half of the 240 vacancies recently put out to tender have been filled ‘due to the lack of attractiveness of the careers’."
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My bullshit detector is going off on this.
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It is weird though, all these people who were entitled to apply for citizenship hadn’t submitted their applications?!?! Where did they come from?
If 700,000 is a correct number, then at least 650,000 must have been submitted before May 2025. The article sounds like because of the proposal for citizenship’s new law, 700,000 people rushed to apply. 
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To add to the confusion and chaos, I’ve seen in another article that as of Jan this year, the government mentioned that there’s 400,000 citizenship applications that are still pending.
Portugal tightens naturalisation rules, doubles residency requirement | Reuters
“The government said in January that more than 400,000 applications were being processed.”
Assuming that both articles are correct, that’s 300,000 new applications since Jan of this year! The 2-3 year wait for processing Portuguese nationality is probably unrealistic.
The above article also mentions that in 2023, roughly 140,000 citizens were granted. So let’s assume that’s the processing ability of IRN. So 700,000 applications divided by 140,000 annual capacity to process. We’re looking at 5 years to process the nationality if someone applied today and there’s no improvement in the ability to process the nationality requests.
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Well, there’s the silver lining … if they make us wait another five years to apply for citizenship, but in the meantime they work through their 5 year backlog in existing applications, we’ll catch up to those applying now 
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There are still CPLP applicants who get in the queue in year 7…and the backlog will be back to hundreds of thousands by year 10
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Some good news coming from IRN regarding Portuguese citizenship processing. IRN has stated from today that they will start allocating more resources to citizenship processing:
Here’s some of the positive developments from IRN (translated from Portuguese):
Starting this Tuesday, July 1st, the Institute of Registries and Notaries (IRN) will have additional human resources to process applications for Portuguese nationality.
The Central Registry Office in Lisbon will now have the support of four more technical assistants. The Porto Central Archive will be reinforced with a team of seven technical assistants, “to speed up the entry into the system of requests submitted by post and the processing of pending requests”, according to a statement sent to newsrooms.
Furthermore, the Porto Central Archive counter will now be temporarily closed for in-person service, according to the IRN, “to be able to dedicate its resources to requests received by post and online”.
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Watch out guys, 11 new workers
I mean, good, but hardly the kind of structural change you need to actually make this sustainable or efficient
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https://www.portugalresident.com/immigrants-complain-they-no-longer-feel-welcome-in-portugal/
“Despite promises, AIMA has not offered any vacant slots for family reunification for two years, which means that most immigrants are male and in Portugal without their families – creating problems of integration and social inclusion.”
Just what you want in a society — a bunch of lonely men without their families or a female counterpart. Not going to cause any problems at all…
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What turned AfD in Germany from an anti-Euro party to what it is today:
Back when the Vietnamese boat people were living in refugee camps in HK and Southeast Asia, waiting to be cherry picked by richer Western countries, all countries had the good sense to prefer young families / single women to single men.
Really makes you wonder whether smart people just don’t want to work for the government anymore, or it’s just apathy.
Is prostitution not legal there?