# Wait time now counts toward 5 year residency?

**URL:** <https://community.nomadgate.com/t/wait-time-now-counts-toward-5-year-residency/62393>\
**Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\
**Tags:** portugal\
**Created:** [January 5, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/wait-time-now-counts-toward-5-year-residency/62393 "2024-01-05T19:03:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![gwytb](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gwytb](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/gwytb)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/wait-time-now-counts-toward-5-year-residency/62393/1131 "2025-04-29T02:21:28Z")

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For the benefit of readers who care about the actual law, I refer you to this recent post:

> [@Wait time now counts toward 5 year residency?](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/wait-time-now-counts-toward-5-year-residency/62393/1113):
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> In fact, there is a direct reference in GV article saying that GV holder can apply for citizenship based on the citizenship law. I agree that expectations set for investors were based on that. ARTICLE 90-A – RESIDENCE PERMIT FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES … The beneficiaries of ARI / Golden Visa are entitled to: … Applying for Portuguese citizenship, by naturalization, provided all other requirements set out by the Nationality Act are fulfilled (Act number 37/81 of 3 October, as amended);

This is in response to the preceding post that derogates my earlier comment:

> [@Moving the Goalposts on Citizenship again](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/moving-the-goalposts-on-citizenship-again/70581/10):
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> Am I supposed to only say “hear, hear” to statement like this one below…
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> > [@Moving the Goalposts on Citizenship again](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/moving-the-goalposts-on-citizenship-again/70581/10):
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> > People keep repeating this like it’s fact, without ever having read the law. The original golden visa law clearly incorporated a bulletproof guarantee of access to the citizenship application process after 5 years.
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> …but I’m not allowed to question it? Or worse, when I question it, am I accused of “putting together a case for the enemy”?

This comment thread is surreal. It reminds me of the dwarves’ pessimism at the end of The Chronicles of Narnia.

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