# What's the potential impact of the 2025 Portuguese election on the Golden Visa program and pathway to citizenship? **URL:** \ **Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\ **Tags:** malta, portugal, golden-visa, legal-q-and-a\ **Created:** [June 3, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/whats-the-potential-impact-of-the-2025-portuguese-election-on-the-golden-visa-program-and-pathway-to-citizenship/71816 "2025-06-03T20:08:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1332
**Author:** ![PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/PTbound)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/whats-the-potential-impact-of-the-2025-portuguese-election-on-the-golden-visa-program-and-pathway-to-citizenship/71816/1332 "2025-10-26T15:52:49Z")
> [@GottaGetOut](#): > > So for me the question is how expensive/cumbersome is it to transition to a permanent GV. If by that you mean Permanent Residency, there’s a separate thread here: > [@Cost of Renewing GV and move to Permanent Residency](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/cost-of-renewing-gv-and-move-to-permanent-residency/52613/40): > > I spoke with our legal firm earlier and was told that one can apply for permanent residence 5 years after receiving the first residence card. I was really hoping that it was 5 years from application or something similar. I probably should have known this was the case, but I hadn’t been paying too much attention to anything other than ARI and citizenship concerns the past number of months. Again, it was a fool’s hope to think it would be anything other than what it is. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/whats-the-potential-impact-of-the-2025-portuguese-election-on-the-golden-visa-program-and-pathway-to-citizenship/71816)._