“Next year we will resolve the remaining issues that, for reasons of social equity, we left until the end, which are those that pay the most, the ‘golden visas’,” said António Leitão Amaro.
The minister argued that “on the scale of moral values” the Government decided to “attend first to the poorest” and “most vulnerable,” which were the immigrants who expressed interest, then resolved the issue of citizens from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), and “thirdly those who were unable to visit their families, who were those with expired visas.”
“Only after dealing with all of these will we leave the wealthiest for the end of the line,” he stressed, underlining that “next year a large part of the residence permits for investment activity [‘golden visas’] will be resolved and they will pay that amount in fees.”