Terminating Golden Visa Residency - possible?

[CTC (Rob S)]

Switching from a golden visa to a D7 has been discussed before here:

Switching from a Golden Visa to a D7

I am on a GV and we moved here permanently during the 3rd year of the visa. Our current GV expired in April 2021 and we have been unable to get an appointment to renew to this day. Even once we get the appointment apparently the processing times are also delayed, so we are looking at another year or two at least before we have valid visas. I am thinking that, since we are now living in Portugal permanently, it could be better to just rather apply for a D7 (I have seen that people get them appro…