# Wait time now counts toward 5 year residency?

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**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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**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 6:54am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/wait-time-now-counts-toward-5-year-residency/62393/124 "2024-01-10T06:54:38Z")

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The need to “prove the existence of an effective link to the national community” is no longer in the Nationality Act - it was removed in 2006. I wrote about this last year

> [@Portuguese Citizenship application after 5 years of Golden Visa](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/portuguese-citizenship-application-after-5-years-of-golden-visa/21226/213):
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> I think there’s often confusion about “effective connection” (ligação). I’d really like to check my understanding of this, so I’d welcome any corrections to what follows: There are two chains of law that are relevant. The Nationality Law, first introduced in 1981 (37/81 of 3 October). This has been amended ten times, most recently in 2020 (Organic Law 2/20 of 10 November). Chapter II of the Law is divided into three sections. Section I deals with “Acquisition of nationality by effect of will”,…

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