SEF appointment requirements

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Not sure I understand your question correctly, and I have not had my SEF appointment yet, but here’s what I expect may be accurate:

The documents you need to bring to your SEF appoitment are essentially the same as the ones you submitted online on the SEF portal for pre-approval.
The notable differences/additions will be:

  • all documents must be original, as opposed to scanned copies you submitted online;
  • all time-limited documents must be freshly re-issued/apostilled if expired, e.g. criminal record, birth/marriage certs, Tax and Social Security declarations etc.
  • you need to bring all required documents, as opposed to only ‘mandatory’ ones marked by asterisk (*) you submitted on the portal;
  • you need to show proof of your most recent ‘legal entry to Portugal’, i.e. your visa and border control stamps in your passport;
  • you need to provide copies of all your passport pages, including the empty ones;
  • you need to provide a completed GV Application Form with your photo attached;
  • you need to provide request/consent form for collecting your biometrics;
  • you need to provide Termos de Responsabilidade (TdR) forms for all your dependants (I mention this because the official list on the SEF website is missing this piece).

For all of that you have three sources of official SEF info:

  1. SEF website - list of required documents (I recommend you check both EN and PT versions, as I was struggling to understand some EN terms they used until discovering PT original listing)
    https://imigrante.sef.pt/en/solicitar/residir/art90-a/
    https://imigrante.sef.pt/solicitar/residir/art90-a/

  2. SEF portal list of documets for online submission - basically repeats #1 but there are some additions like TdR etc. that are missed in #1 (again, check both PT and EN listings to ensure you got everything clear)
    https://ari.sef.pt/account/default.aspx

  3. SEF internal procedure manual document (additionally refers to passport copies, GV application form and biometrics form) - only PT version is available.
    https://www.sef.pt/pt/Documents/Manual_ARI_2017.pdf

Additionally, some SEF document templates like TdR, etc. are located here:

Hope this helps.

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