I read somewhere its takes 5 days on average to get it published, so expect it to become law later this week IMO.
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I have heard it could take 2 weeks.
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End of the Golden Visa for all intents. Who would do this in Portugal now??
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We got fed so many lies by all involved. No one should invest in this program.
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A lot of people. Add long as it’s the only game in town with a path to citizenship with a minimal stay requirement.
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I agree. And the PR is still in “5 years”.
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It’s like a rat trap: even after seeing other rats caught in it, the next ones still get curious enough to walk right in.
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Seems that although president signed it, he also added several warnings (（Promulgação com recado). May need to see the detailed conditions released later.
The text of the law itself says this.
I thought this in the press release was funny:
“Finalmente, o Presidente da República assinala ainda a importância de a contagem dos prazos legalmente fixados para a obtenção de nacionalidade não ser afetada pela morosidade do Estado.”
Morosidade do Estado = slowness of the State.
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Nowhere is this guaranteed.
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I’m really disappointed with how useless Seguro turned out to be here.
Idle, wishful words that “the revision of a law of such significance as the Nationality Law should also be based on a broader consensus regarding its key provisions.” As if he was lamenting that the Madeira Flower Festival Parade got rained on yesterday… unfortunate, but oh well I can’t do anything about it. And just as ineffective.
The letters I and others wrote to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa last autumn got replies like “We acknowledge receipt of and thank you for the email you sent… which has been given our full attention.” I received nothing back from my note to António José Seguro last month. Clearly not too bothered.
I don’t hold out much hope that the folks tasked with writing the detailed regulations of this law - or the PT Courts interpreting it - will give a damn about us either.
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I personally believe our fate was sealed after the last Constitutional Court review. It is clear to me that for political reasons we are too small a population to justify scrapping the entire law, or even carving out an unpopular exception. Of course by definition we cannot go to the courts yet because none of us has reached the “5 year + 90 days since application” mark (otherwise we would have quickly filed for citizenship under the still current law). But call me an optimist, I believe that the courts, or the judges more precisely, will be the most viable option to correct this grave anomaly we have been the victims of. That will be the avenue I will try to pursue as I get closer to my 5 year+90 days milestone, and I am hoping that the more of us to do it, the more attention to this injustice it will bring, and hopefully the quicker solving our cases will become standard.
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Portuguese courts can force the administration to act when AIMA/IRN fail to decide within the legal timeframe, but unfortunately, that is not the same as the court saying “approved by silence after 90 days"
This one is a classic! Unfortunate reality…
https://community.nomadgate.com/t/portugal-golden-visa-is-a-scam-endless-waits-misleading-information-and-outright-lies/51216/177?u=ridleyqlero
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For those who are in portugal, is anyone hosting get drunk and cry party in lisbon? I am down for shots and i don’t even drink
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Latest Lobbyist (Bloomcast) update hopes that the next regulation phase heeds the warnings in Seguro’s promulgation:
…President explicitly warned against affecting pending processes retroactively, stating that this would constitute an undesirable breach of trust in the Portuguese State, both internally and internationally… we believe that the negotiaitons [sic] between the government and the President were favorable to open some kind of grandfathering clauses or protection of acquired expectations and legitimate reliance on the regulation of the law.
…President also stressed that the counting of residence periods for nationality purposes should not be negatively affected by administrative delays caused by the State itself… possible openness to future litigation and constitutional discussions and a favorable environment for moderate and technical engagement during regulation.
On the other hand, Minority party Livre says Seguro’s warnings are just “old man yells at cloud:”
…warnings issued by the Head of State in the message accompanying the enactment of the law “are important,” but Livre has “many doubts that they will be heeded by the majority that approved this law.”
“Throughout the entire process, that same majority has shown a lack of capacity to listen to opposing positions and warnings, rejecting hearings in committee and ignoring all warnings about the unconstitutionality of the legislation (which was later confirmed by the Constitutional Court),” they argue.
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This is clearly irrelevant, and unhelpful to the current discussion. A court can legally rule that a person’s citizenship application be governed by the previous law. Portuguese Constitution allows this, and Article 204 has been implemented by courts countless times. Read my previous post explaining this in detail.
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Madalena Monteiro and André Miranda (not to be confused with O «pai da Constituição», Jorge Miranda) weigh in.
…although it’s all been said before and the Government+Chega don’t care.
Nationality Law: vetoing it would also have been a way of respecting the Constitution.
- the President’s intervention proves manifestly insufficient to produce any practical effect or relevant impact.
- What we question is the way in which this option was implemented: without an adequate transitional regime, without the necessary regulations that allow the new law to be effectively applicable, and without safeguarding the situation of those who waited for years without being able to overcome administrative lethargy and inertia.
- the Minister of the Presidency himself admitted, at the end of October 2025, in a parliamentary hearing, that he had given instructions for certain categories of applications—in this case, residence permits for investment activity (" golden visas" )—to be deliberately left until the end, for reasons he described as inverted social equity. When the State confesses that it managed thousands of applications, especially those relating to investors who channeled more than ten billion euros into our country, according to discretionary and politically defined criteria, it becomes unacceptable to present the resulting years of waiting to the citizen as a problem of their exclusive responsibility. In these circumstances, there is something that offends the dignity of the rule of law and the reputation of the Portuguese Republic.
- The ten-year period now established for the majority of foreigners not from CPLP countries or the European Union places Portugal at the absolute maximum limit allowed by the European Convention on Nationality, ratified in 2000. Even more worrying: combined with the persistent structural administrative delays, the actual waiting time will systematically exceed this conventional limit.
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Examples of such cases?
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If the Constitutional Court has not found “no grandfathering for future applicants” unconstitutional, then an ordinary administrative judge using Article 204 would be swimming against the current.
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