Don’t ask me why, but AIMA blocks access from outside Portugal. So if you are outside Portugal, you must use a VPN service with a server in Portugal.
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[quote=“InvestVG-PT, post:543, topic:69099”]
Contactenos.aima.gov.pt
[/quote] I’m trying to make an appointment for renewal using the https://contactenos.aima.gov.pt portal but I keep getting “That site can’t be reached”.
Is it still functioning?
Has anyone made an appointment by emailing a request? Chatgpt gives geral@aima.gov.pt or has anyone hired a third party, not necessarily a lawyer, to schedule an in person appointment. And, if so, how much did that cost?
I’m outside Portugal. Thanks
Craig
I don’t think this is accurate. The expired card is a dead duck. What is the case is that the right of residence remains valid for a further six months before you are in Portugal illegally and have to leave. Think of it as a six month grace period to renew. Once you have started the renewal process, the card is still valid if you also present the QR code/appointment email.
AIMA’s clarification was that the pre-July 1 crowd were extended to October 15, so for them, the six month grace period runs from October 15, 2025 (not 2026) and not, say February 2021. For the post-June 30 crowd, the six months runs from expiration.
84/2007 does you no good for travel. It protects you from deportation. The renewal process might help for travel. When I presented an expired card without the renewal email, TAP wouldn’t fly me back to Portugal.
Exactly: 84/2007 is not good for travel, just protects you from deportation.
I traveled outside Europe this Friday, departing from Lisbon, and at immigration I presented my residence permit, which expired in March 2025. The immigration officer asked if I had renewed it and asked to see proof of renewal.
I asked why he requested proof of renewal, and he informed me that without the renewal, I would not be able to return to Portugal.
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I have corrected my earlier post as “Oct 15, 2026” was a typo, thanks for spotting that.
You must use a Portugal VPN. The site automatically blocks access to IP addresses outside Portugal.
Which makes sense, as in why would you want to renew you residence permit in Portugal if you are not in Portugal anyway?
GV is why of course, but they probably assume we have lawyers in Portugal to access the site for us!
The whole selling point of GV is a residence/Schengen permit that doesn’t require living there.
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Thank you! Actually I would like to know if there is a way to make an appointment while I am outside of Portugal. With the GV we don’t live there full time. But I can co-ordinate my trip to coincide with the renewal appointment. It’s expensive to A. hire a lawyer to do this, or B. fly there just to apply for an appointment. I know of an agent who will make an appointment for about 150 euros. It seems like there must be a way I can do it.
Yes, I’ll try a Portuguese VPN.
I tried several VPNs that put me in Netherlands, the US, and Japan. Finally Urban VPN worked, easily! But I have a question about the form. I filled it all out but at the end it asks for 3 files. Minimum 3, Maximum 3. (Pretty clear) Passport, Titulo de Residencia, and Power of Attorney with Full Powers. Since I’m going myself I shouldn’t need and don’t have this. What have other people done? There’s a reminder that I haven’t gotten my full quota so I can’t go on. What should I do in this case? Thanks!
@elorimerlogin
Hi, but the golden visa renewal doesn’t have QR code. It’s just a manual proof of renewal signed and stamp by AIMA.
You are quite right about the qr code. In our case, real estate so renewing as a D2. It’s actually proof of submission, not renewal.
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“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.”
With so many people getting initial biometrics appointments these last couple of days.
Is there any news on renewals? Will we also get the mass number of appointments as well?
Hope for the best but I doubt it.
I suspect that AIMA has gotten political marching orders to collect as much €€€ loot from naive new applicants as possible, now that they’re permanently eliminating the path to citizenship. That means prioritizing new cases and letting existing people rot, just as they put all ARIs at the end of the line while they cleared out every other possible queue and redecorated the break rooms too.
Yeah, naturalization still exists on paper, over the rainbow, but they’ll keep moving the goalposts, and they’ll find ways to sabotage us along the way. I think we’re all well aware that the Portuguese government isn’t making things right when we’re harmed by their failure to perform.
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Drop it then. No one forcing you to apply or go through the process. You are a guest un their country.
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“Drop it then. No one forcing you to apply or go through the process.”
Many people have signed fixed term investment contracts and cannot just “drop it” as you say.
“You are a guest un their country.”
When I visit the country for a weekend vacation I am a guest in their country. When I invest 500.000 euros under specific terms laid out by the government instead of taking that money and investing it somewhere else, I am no longer a “guest” in their country I am an “investor”, that comes with certain “legitimate expectations”
Surprised to see a comment like this here, but then again after re-reading your message my surprise strangely disappears for some unbeknownst reason 
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I noticed this during the Mais Habitação episode too, that there are some posters with Stockholm syndrome, or perhaps just trolls. You’ll see posts taking inventory of every possible objectionable talking point by the adversaries, and agreeing (without any justification) that they are all perfectly justified, reasonable, and necessary.
I don’t understand why people would march into the courtroom and admit to the murder they didn’t even commit, stating that it was in the library with the candlestick, but people are complex. [Hmm, that takes me back, Clue was a pretty fun game. I’ll look around for a Clue board in my idle time.]
Perhaps they are opposition sock-puppets. Beats me. “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
Good point about the contract and legitimate expectations. I agree, the principle of legal certainty is fundamental.
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I’ve encountered a fair amount of what I suspect is astroturfing, some here but a whole lot more elsewhere.
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