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

[yzwang (YWang)]

@portugalwanderer

You can always count on @yzwang to advocate for the opposing position. Clueless.

@portugalwanderer

Look, I don’t need or want to engage with you any further.

Good Sir, I asked a lawyer a question on a public forum, and you engaged with me first as some sort of community police.

@portugalwanderer

I have already contributed at least 2 relevant Wikis on this site for the benefit of all members. Whether those wikis are useful or valuable is for users here to decide. The point is, I am trying to make a positive difference for people. By the same token, users can also decide whether you promoting arguments why the government should be able to screw us are equally valuable.

Your 2 wikis are very much appreciated. But does wearing this badge of honor make you feel empowered to prosecute others with religious zeal? And this instinct to call for mob justice to stamp out dissent?

Going back to one of my favourite exchanges on this forum:

@gwytb

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.

@portugalwanderer

Indeed. For whatever reason there are a lot of fatalistic and misanthropic people who post here regularly. Portugal has a very strong Constitution that protects the rights of its people and grants the right to citizenship to everyone. I have copies of court cases where the judges have upheld these principles you mention in the context of citizenship, yet people continue with their pessimistic attitudes.

I’m sure you get plenty of “Hear, hear”s for your “legal opinions”, including from prospective 2025 GV applicants who get FOMO’ed into PT GV, believing they would have a constitutional right to citizenship in 5 years if they jump in NOW.

Posts that vent (“not what I signed up for”), look at the bright side (“hope for the best while I enjoy this excellent green wine”), or discuss lobbying arguments/strategies rarely lead to arguments on this forum, but anything that purports to be a legal opinion should be able to withstand challenges from any direction. You can’t possibly expect to present a purported legal opinion, but then call for censorship (“stop advocating for the enemy!”) as soon as someone disagrees, without being able to have an intelligent conversation on the legal merits.