Reading through posts, getting cold feet - is the golden visa actually a scam?

[PTbound (A L)]

I’ve stayed a spectator on this thread, as most of my dissatisfaction was already noted by others within 9 hours of the original question. I thought I was negative on the PT GV’s broken promises… clearly not just me!

A clarification on 90/180 though…

@PCERoman

Overstaying the 90-day U.S. automatic tourist visa - a routine practice. Re-entering the country with less than 90-day absence from the EU - also a standard practice. Nobody really cares, or at least they have not cared so far.

That may change soon, as your “Schengen days” will probably be in large type on the Border Guard’s screen (see below). No more flipping through passport pages, trying to decipher unreadable stamps and summing dates manually.

If they go really next-level on this, the Guard may have to justify why they let you in if your number was near or over 90. Could curtail a lot of the Guard discretion/ambivalence that we currently benefit from.

@PTbound

In preparation for the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) due to commence this October, Portugal started using their biometric scanners at airports yesterday:

https://www.ssi.gov.pt/seguranca-nas-fronteiras

…including I assume more robust monitoring of the 90/180 day rule for non-Schengen visitors:

Border Portal
brings together on the same page all the information relevant to the work of the border guard, keeping the information always up to date and easy to access/consult… on a single page, all the relevant and updated information necessary for decision-making in the context of border control.