What's the potential impact of the 2025 Portuguese election on the Golden Visa program and pathway to citizenship?

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@jb4422

of course there were the straight-up results that we could all see

Indeed…

1-March, 2025

PGV / ARI Rage, Tragedy, & General Madness

Confirmation that GV/ARI investors are at the back of the queue, behind those already in PT and 220,000 CPLPs… Backlog of cases awaiting documents ‘reached close to 900,000’, says Leitão Amaro February 26, 2025, Público Brasil The minister confirmed that residence permits for investment were postponed. ‘Our decision was to give priority, first, to those who were in Portugal without any decision. Therefore, they were the ones who expressed their interest. Next, the CPLP citizens, who had docu…

7-May, 2025

AIMA's new GV process

Interesting find @InvestVG-PT. It is digitally signed on 25th March by ‘Rui Armindo Freitas’ (i.e. Deputy Secretary of State for the Presidency, and head of the ‘Migration Action Plan’), so does that make it ‘official?’ Target of a 30% reduction in pending ARI applications in 2025? So when the GV hucksters tell us AIMA has a ‘Mission Structure’ plan to clear the ARI backlog this year, well not even AIMA believes that… not even half of that! Couple other targets in this document of interest to …

8-May, 2025

PGV / ARI Rage, Tragedy, & General Madness

We GVs are so back of the queue… Also in the queue, with slower service, are 50,000 Golden Visa investors and their family members, who are entitled to a residence permit. The Government chose to leave this group until the end, considering the processes less complex. And due to wrap-up soon (because they’re done?!??): that big “mission structure, led by former AIMA president Luís Goes Pinheiro… created by the Government with the aim of reducing all these processes to zero by the summer of …

13-October, 2025

Awaiting Pre-Approval (Stage 2)

Latest, latest stats in today’s DN (13-Oct 2025) Since September 2024, the more than 22 service locations have received 501,771 foreign citizens, of which 214,583 are Brazilian. The government claims that it has “practically eliminated” the number of expressions of interest [in its backlog] … fewer than three thousand cases (out of more than 400,000 expressions of interest) remain unresolved Currently, the focus is on renewing residence permits and exchanging the paperwork with the Community …