Official Portuguese sources, read every day
The figures you quote change. Know the day they do.
An income threshold is revised, a fee moves, a consulate changes how it takes appointments — and the figure in your client pack is quietly a year out of date. Three versions of the same income minimum can sit on one agency's website at once. We read the official pages every day and tell you, in English and Portuguese, on the day something you sell against changes.
What we watch
42 topics
84 official pages · 18 publishers
This week
82/84
official pages checked
Every week
EN
PT
Mondays 08:30
Published values
Figures in force
We show 6 of the 37 figures we publish, each with the date it was verified and the official page it was read from.
Threshold
€920,00
per month
verified 2026-11-07
Guaranteed minimum monthly wage (RMMG)
Threshold
€537,13
in euros
verified 2026-11-08
Social support index (IAS)
Fee
€110
in euros
verified 2026-11-08
Fee to process a national visa application
Fee
€114,30
in euros
verified 2026-11-08
Fee to grant or renew a temporary residence permit (standard rate, before any channel reduction); reception and analysis of the application is priced on a separate line
Deadline
60
days
verified 2026-11-08
Days to decide a residence visa application, unless the immigration act sets a shorter period (Artigo 58.º, n.º 4), counted from the day it is received, without weekends or public holidays
Deadline
90
days
verified 2026-11-08
Days to decide an application for a first residence permit, unless the immigration act sets another period; weekends and public holidays are not counted (Artigo 82.º, n.º 5)
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The weekly digest, English and Portuguese
Everything that changed in the week, each item with the official page behind it. The Portuguese is written when the change is found, from the source page — it is the wording your client puts in front of a consulate, not a translation made at send time.
Mondays, 08:30 Lisbon time
A same-day alert when it matters
A threshold, a fee, a required document or a deadline that moves reaches you the same day. Everything else waits for the digest, so an alert always means there is something to do.
The day it is found
The current figures, product by product
For each product line you sell: the figure in force, the date it was last verified, and a link to the official page it was read from. Check it before a quote goes out and quote one version of the number instead of three.
Dated, and linked to its source
One change, as subscribers received it
AIMA announcements · Residence permit renewal
AIMA published one new item on its announcements listing on 15 September 2026: «Portal de Renovações atualizado para Nacionais da União Europeia (UE) e Familiares». The item's own page was opened and read, and it states that the renewals portal has been updated for «pedidos de Concessão de Certificados e Cartões de Residência Permanentes apresentados por Nacionais da União Europeia (UE) e Familiares». For those applications the two identifiers are not asked for: «os requerentes não têm de indicar o Número de Identificação Fiscal (NIF) nem o Número de Identificação da Segurança Social (NISS)». AIMA adds that a «os seus dados se encontram em validação» message may appear at the start, that the check runs automatically against the competent bodies and may take «até cerca de 30 minutos», and that an applicant still seeing it afterwards should report it through the contact form under «Portal de Renovações – comunicar problema». AIMA reworded two of these sentences after publishing: on 16 September they read «os requerentes já não têm de indicar…» and «…deverá ficar concluída em cerca de 30 minutos»; the quotations above are the page as read on 17 September 2026. Who it applies to: EU nationals and their family members applying for a permanent residence certificate or card. The notice concerns only these applications and says nothing about anyone else, and none of the figures or requirements this service publishes moved. One thing it settles in part: the outage notice reported here on 10 September, «Portal de Renovações temporariamente indisponível», is still on the listing and AIMA has still published no restoration notice, but this is the first AIMA publication since that outage to describe the portal as in use and to direct applicants to portal-renovacoes.aima.gov.pt. That is evidence the portal works for the applications this notice covers; it does not say whether renewals for other non-EU nationals, under Lei n.º 23/2007, work again, and this service has still not been able to confirm that. One item aged off the bottom of the listing in the same rotation, «Loja AIMA Lisboa II dispõe de sala exclusiva para advogados e solicitadores» (24.07.2026): the list moving, not a notice being withdrawn. REVISED 2026-09-17: after this was sent on 16 September, AIMA reworded two sentences (both wordings are quoted above) and this text was put in plainer words; what it reports did not change.
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What we watch, in 42 topics
Grouped the way the work is done: the consular stage, what a new arrival must complete, residence and naturalisation after arrival, and the law behind them.
- Consular visa
13 topics
- Apostille, legalisation and certified translation of supporting documents
- Appointment channels — who takes applications where
- CPLP mobility agreement — visas for nationals of the States that apply it
- and 10 more
- Arrival formalities
NIF, NISS, SNS, address
7 topics
- Fiscal representation: when it is required, who may serve, and the penalty
- Obtaining a health-service user number and registering with a health centre
- Obtaining a social-security number (NISS)
- and 4 more
- Residence and naturalisation
after arrival
13 topics
- CPLP residence permit, and the fee exemption by nationality
- Family reunification with a resident
- Naturalisation — route, cost and the pending regulation
- and 10 more
Read alongside every stage
Proof we looked
This week we checked 82 of the 84 official pages behind these figures.
- 76Read again, nothing moved
- 5A change was recorded
- 1Could not be read all period
- 1Read only when something points to it
- 1Deliberately paused
When we look
The check runs at 07:00, 11:00, 15:00, 19:00, Lisbon time, and every scheduled source is read twice a day.
One tile for each official page we watch, publisher by publisher.
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82 official pages, last read 2026-11-08. 2 could not be read that day; every one of them was covered by another source. The last material change we recorded was 2026-11-05. How we verify