Police Clearance for Golden Visa Dependents (country of birth & country of residence)

[tommigun (Tommy Gunn)]

Please refer to my post here responding to the same question:

Unknown unknown of Portugal Golden Visa

Unfortunately, the official requirement is different when it comes to the ‘reagrupamento familiar’ as compared to the main GV applicant. It may sound funny as it is, but the main GV applicant is required to supply their criminal check from the country of nationality OR from the country where they have resided for more than one year. For the dependants, the coordinating conjunction changes from OR to AND, i.e. BOTH criminal checks will be required if their country of nationality is different fr…

Technically, what matters is the country of nationality, not the country of birth.
So if your dependants are NOT the nationals of their country of birth then the certificate would not be required.
By the way, I am in the same situation for one of my dependants, and I am not planning to obtain the police cert from their country of birth due to them not being the national/citizen of that country (and never have been).