Em Vigor

Coverage

What we check, and what we deliberately do not

Every fee, income threshold, document list and deadline your visa, tax-number, banking and residence work depends on — 42 topics, read from 18 official Portuguese publishers. What we do not cover is on this page as well, said plainly.

What we watch

By stage of the work

Under each stage are the topics we read for changes — and, behind them, the laws the stage rests on.

  1. 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
    • Family travelling with the main applicant, at the consular stage
    • and 9 more
  2. 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)
    • Opening a Portuguese bank account without being present in Portugal
    • and 3 more
  3. 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
    • Permanent residence card for the non-EU family of an EU national, after five years
    • and 9 more

Read alongside every stage

Publishers

Who we read

18 official publishers, 84 pages between them. Anything we quote comes from the body that runs the process, from the state publishing about it, or from the law itself — never from press or commentary.

Tier 1

Operates the process

  • AIMA32 pages
  • Ministério da Justiça / IRN2 pages
  • ACSS1 page
  • Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado1 page
  • Procuradoria-Geral da República — Portal do Ministério Público1 page
Tier 2

Official, publishes about the process

  • MNE — Portal dos Vistos10 pages
  • Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira7 pages
  • gov.pt3 pages
  • Direção-Geral do Emprego e das Relações de Trabalho2 pages
  • gov.pt / ACSS2 pages
  • Consulado-Geral de Portugal em Londres (MNE)1 page
  • Direção-Geral da Administração e do Emprego Público1 page
  • gov.pt / Segurança Social1 page
  • Governo de Portugal1 page
  • MNE — Portal das Comunidades Portuguesas1 page
Tier 3

Statute and regulation

  • Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa11 pages
  • Diário da República4 pages
  • Assembleia da República3 pages

Tier 1 operates the process. Tier 2 is the state publishing about it. Tier 3 is statute. Press and commentary are never a citation — only a reason to go and look.

Products

The products it covers

Grouped the way an agency sells them, not the way the law files them. A change carries the product lines it touches, so you can see at once whether it reaches a package you sell.

  • Portuguese nationality by naturalisation
  • Consular residence visa for people living on their own incomesold in the market as the D7
  • Post-arrival administrative enrolment
  • Residence permit after arrival — grant, renewal, permanence and family
  • Portuguese bank account opened remotely
  • Consular temporary-stay visa for remote workerssold in the market as the D8, temporary-stay variant
  • Consular residence visa for remote workerssold in the market as the D8, residence variant
  • Portuguese tax number (NIF), sold on its own

Deliberately not covered

Said plainly

If a client's question falls here, we say so rather than improvise an answer.

  • Art. 122.º regularisation detail (one status record only)
  • Protection and asylum
  • Students and researchers
  • Golden Visa, EU Blue Card, intra-company transfers
  • Travel-document routes other than naturalisation
  • Anything requiring a view of a specific person's file

Nationals of Portuguese-speaking countries are covered: visas and residence permits under the CPLP mobility agreement, and the equality statute for Brazilian nationals. No page we read lists the countries where the agreement is in force, so we do not name them.

Rhythm

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.

The digest goes out every Monday at 08:30, Lisbon time, in English and Portuguese. Anything that cannot wait for the digest is sent the day it is found.

Subscribers see every source with its last-read date and status, and what covered it when it could not be reached. Access is by invitation.