The arguments by this lawyer seem to mirror those made by @gwytb and others.
It makes sense. Those people saying that residency and nationality are different things so thats the end of it are intellectually lazy. Of course they are separate things, but that is not dispositive.
Perhaps our great-great-great-grandchildren will be allowed to get Portuguese citizenship as compensation for this current injustice…
Has someone crafted talking/writing points that we should include in our emails?
Yes
I am/was going to get the GV for PT but because the USD has been so poor i never converted to Euros yet.
Now with everything going on in PT I’m seriously considering dropping it. So far I’m only in a ton of time and lawyer fees.
Where have you heard about Malta doing a GV program. That might be very interesting although i suspect being Malta probably very expensive.
Sorry, where is the email address to send these? Thanks.
There’s no email, just follow the instructions @tommigun posted above:
If your goal is just getting a second passport and don’t necessarily need to live in Europe, then you can go ahead with Portugal because you will eventually get the citizenship once in no matter how long the process would take. You just have to think of it as an investment and a future asset, you never know maybe in 10-15 years this will not be possible like it is today.
Malta has a permanent residence by investment which is still available, but it will not realistically lead to citizenship. The direct citizenship route by investment was suspended following the CJEU ruling but the government has signaled the program will resume sometime in the future as changes to its regulatory framework will be applied in coming weeks or months.
I will be posting updates regarding this in the Malta section of this forum, you can follow the discussion there.
@tommigun is this what you are referring to for the “name”.
It seems some parts were approved in committee today to go for a full vote on the 16th.
Among them are the obligation to reside in the country for two years to be entitled to family reunification and the restriction of the job search visa only for professionals with “high qualifications”.
Unless I’m misunderstanding this article, it sounds like they’re moving ahead from the committee to a full parliament vote next week. On the entire rug pull. No grandfathering or transition periods.
It worries me the article did not seem to give a complete list of what the vote covered. Just the “among the restrictions” what I quoted above. I did not get the impression it was the full rug pull because surely they would have listed the 5->10 years explicitly in the article as that is such a large component?
I’m not sure. It’s ambiguous. You would think something as important and potentially life-derailing as this for hundreds of thousands of people would get more consideration than a curt passing comment and a snap vote..
I think the nationality changes are still postponed to September:
alterações propostas à lei da nacionalidade, cuja votação ficou adiada para setembro
This is a vote on amendments to the foreigners law, the amendments to the nationality law were postponed to September.
If you click the exact link in my post, you should see the list of names of all the Deputies who are the current members of the Committee on Constitution.., which is the Committee in charge of the Nationality Law revision (25 names in total).
Here’s the link again:
thank you- I missed that step!
I don’t quite read it as a full “rug pull”, though it is possible that many provisions most likely still remain in the bill. It seems they are really after reagrupamento familiar, but the main gist is still left for the September vote. It would be a good barometer to see how this vote goes and what becomes of it.
As I read the news, this session’s key votes are about future immigration policy. That does not affect me. A W for the nativists may help to placate voters and create some space for a reasonable compromise on the nationality law come September.
I gather that political leadership is getting a lot of feedback from influential constituencies about the perils and downsides of aggressive proposals.
I don’t love this drama (the 5th white-knuckled Portugal crisis in 5 years) but there are glimmers of hope. Key people have expressed concern about the original proposal.
There is also a general email for the Committee itself, but I suggest writing to the named deputies as this may increase the chance of your email being read (i.e. sending it to 25 deputies instead of 1 general email would in theory increase the success chance by x25 
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Comissão de Assuntos Constitucionais, Direitos, Liberdades e Garantias
Em Atividade [2025-06-26 a ]
Palácio de S. Bento
Praça da Constituição de 1976
1249-068 LISBOA
email: 1CACDLG@ar.parlamento.pt
