Thank-you for posting this information.
Our cards also expired in January but there has been no date set for a renewal appointment. How much time did they give you? We need Schengen visas to enter the country and these take time to apply for.
Also, did you have to have all your documents ready at the appointment (eg birth certificates, police clearance?)
They gave us four weeks warning. We had everything at the appointment including some ridiculous extras because we were concerned that any missing documents would cause us to need a new appointment.
@skippy.fluff
How much was the fee for renewal?
It’s complicated by the analysis fee and the renewal fee being separate fees but collected together. But the table here: https://aima.gov.pt/media/pages/documents/f4adf3850c-1741971293/tabela-de-taxas-e-demais-encargos-a-cobrar-pelos-procedimentos-administrativos.pdf shows basically what we paid.
Thanks Skip.
So, did you pay €618,60 + €3090,40 = €3.709 ?
Did they end up asking you for anything in particular?
There were three of us, so more than that, but I think that’s the amount paid for the primary applicant (as I said, it was all collected together).
They seemed most interested in the Atestado de Residência, the investment proofs, and our son’s school record (Declaração de Matricula). We had fresh, apostilled copies of the birth and marriage certificates, but they didn’t want them. They looked at but didn’t seem to want the monthly bank statements (the statement from the bank holding the investment units was in the investment proof bucket)
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Interesting… Why would they want to see the Atestado? As a proof of stay? Or proof of living in PT full-time, in which case did that eliminate the need for any foreign police certificates?
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I honestly don’t know whether it was one or the other or both. We had lots of other proofs that we lived here (water bills in addition to the bank statements), but the Atestado was the big deal. I suppose they see it as a different organ of government confirming the residency and hence a higher level of confirmation.
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Strange. Did you attend at IRN or AIMA? This seems like you could have been approved for a D7, not GV. Seems odds that they want to know you are living full time in Portugal since this isnt required.
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Update: We had our renewal appointments last week, and we paid a renewal fee of EUR181.50 per card for a total of EUR726. Our legal team did all the document processing with them, so we just had to show up to get our fingerprints + picture completed. Total time it took was around 45 minutes.
Not clear how long it will take to complete the processing of the renewal + card issuance, but I’ll update you when I have it.
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Hi, the total fees are 181.5 eur/ person so it s no longer about 6k euros/person ?
I assume @Zayd_Khoury had a real estate investment so on renewal it is converted to D2. The D2 has much lower fees.
If your investment was not in real estate you will still be paying 6k euros/person.
Great news Zayd! I remember from older posts that you were invested in real estate. Good to have a fresh data point that real estate is still €177. I hope you get your cards soon, and that they are 3 years validity 
Which AIMA branch did you have your appointment?
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How did you get renewal appointments? Did you just get told when to come via AIMA or did you email them? Thank-you
See earlier in the thread: WIKI: HOW-TO: Golden Visa Renewal Mega Thread (January 2025 →) - #89 by minimaxr
any news about the extending the expiry? june 30th is next month
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The pattern so far is: they spend all year insisting that they will never do another extension because they will catch up on renewals. Then on June 29 they renew the extension for another year.
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