Exactly, the expectation is that the next term will be 6 months prolongation of expired permits, issued on the 30th of June in the year of 2025 AD.
Normally the things are taken care of last minute or some time past that.
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@Zayd_Khoury
Congratulations,
I have a couple of questions regarding the Golden Visa renewal process and would really appreciate any insights.
First, was your Golden Visa granted through property investment, or was it under a different category? I’m trying to understand how the process may vary.
The lawyer I spoke to, mentioned that the renewal fee for the property investment-based Golden Visa is €3,090 per person.
Secondly, does anyone know if a criminal record from the country of birth is still required for renewal if the main applicant and their family have been permanently living in Portugal and haven’t left the country?
renewal for that price would have to be real estate based, even though its not consistent with current policy statements. otherwise, these questions are already answered in the wiki here, directly or indirectly. There is a separate linked wiki discussing renewal documents. Best to focus on maintaining the wiki information instead of complicating the thread with repetitive information.
Which price you mean € 1090 or € 177.1 for the property investment?
@ILiveinHope My lawyers notified when they got me an appointment. They seemed to know when slots opened up and nabbed me 4 spots (me and 3 dependents).
@Zach1 Yup, I did property investment GV. I can’t tell you with certainty which criminal record to bring because at the time of my renewal,
country of residence = country of origin, for all for applicants. I tend to always bring more documents to my past appointments, so I typically would bring BOTh country of original + country of residence with me.
From yesterday. Not sure what it means?
The president of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA), Pedro Portugal Gaspar, said on Thursday (29/05)…
Extension of expired permits
Another sensitive point was the expiration date of residence permits and visas that expire on February 22, 2020. Extended successively since the pandemic, these documents remain valid until June 30, 2025. With about a month to go until the deadline, Gaspar said that the issue is under analysis. “We still have time to make an assessment, but we don’t expect there to be any major setbacks,” he said.
I assume that he is trying to say they take the next month to assess how many processes are still needing approval and how long they might need to extend the decree law. When he says “we don’t expect any major setbacks” I think what he is saying is that he doesn’t believe it needs to be extended for another year, but maybe only 3 or 6 months.
So, after reading this I set the over-under at 6 months, but needless to say, take the over because they will not finish all processes by 6 months and will need to extend it again.
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Hello-Can someone let me know if I can renew my Golden Visa after 5 years? I have been told that I can as long as I maintain my investment property. Has anyone done this?
If you can get an appointment, of course you can renew. Maintaining the investment is required for GV including renewals.
I had thought that after five years (holding aside the citizenship process) you can move to permanent residence and no longer maintain the investment — is that not right? (Apologies if this is the wrong thread for that!)
It is correct that you may apply for PR after 5 years, but that is 5 years after issuance of your first residency card. When Portugal revised the law counting time from initial application for the 5 year clock to start for citizenship (not from first temporary residency permit), they did not make the same accommodation for PR applications. This means that you will be eligible to apply for citizenship before your are eligible to apply for PR. PR, like citizenship, requires a language test and the fees are significant. Unless there is a reason why you cannot hold dual citizenship, you are better off applying for citizenship than PR.
Whichever you apply for, I would personally hold on to your GV investment until PR or citizenship was received. The prevailing wisdom appears to be that you need to maintain a valid residency permit for at least some period of time after a citizenship application. With the citizenship process apparently taking 2-3 years (and I suspect PR applications are similarly very slow), there is a strong likelihood that you will need to renew your temporary residency permit whilst your citizenship/PR application is pending, which you will only be able to do if you have maintained your investment.
Thanks @deepyarn — this is very helpful. I hadn’t realized (or internalized) that the five years applies to citizenship and not to PR!
I see your lawyer was able to get you appointments. I have managed, through emails, to get an appointment for myself in September, but my husband who is my sponsor, has not been able to secure one for himself - and our lawyer is not helping at all! Would you perhaps be willing to share your lawyer’s details with us?
Minister of the Presidency (António Leitão Amaro) held a press conference yesterday to mark one year of the migration plan (I’ve posted more on that here).
w.r.t. renewals…
More than 374,587 immigrants have expired residence permits. Since last summer, the online renewal system has stopped working. The number was revealed this afternoon by the Government, in an assessment of the Migration Action Plan. Most of these people are Brazilians who have lived in the country for years.
These pending issues will be resolved by the Mission Structure. However, in response to DN Brasil, Minister António Leitão Amaro did not provide a date for the start of the renewal service. This is because the Government is in a transitional phase. Even if the same coalition takes over, the decisions will be made after the inauguration.
…Regarding the extension of the decree-law that makes the documents valid, Leitão Amaro also did not want to answer whether it will be extended or not, only. “We have ideas about that”, he summarized, saying that the new features will be presented at some point in June.
In the last renewal, in June last year, the implementation took place around 48 hours before the end of the previous decree-law.
https://dnbrasil.dn.pt/mais-de-374-mil-imigrantes-estão-com-título-de-residência-vencido
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@tkrunning is there a reason that editing is disabled on Wikis?
Can anyone verify wiki information about length of renewals? 3 year renewal term for real estate and 2 year renewal term for non-real estate?
I also thought i saw someone post that they renewed recently for 181 euros. Was this possibly a primary applicant whose card expired prior to August 2024? Otherwise, makes no sense.
My understanding from my lawyer is that GV-real estate are renewing as D2-type, 3 year permits at around €179. That was last November. Haven’t been able to get appointments for PR or renewal yet.
Hello! Congratulations on getting the appointment!
Im also on the same boat trying to email them to get an appointment. May I ask what information you included in your emails and how long it took you to get the appointment?
Thanks!
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I put in the subject of the email, “Renovar a minha Residência ARI Cartão Número” and then the number. I wrote it in Portuguese and also mentioned that this is our only residence - we live here full time. I was lucky, I didn’t send too many emails although I did send every day. And just one day, shortly after sending the email, I got a reply with a date. My husband has been doing the same - and for a lot longer - and he still has had no reply.
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