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Delays of up to five years for the Portuguese authorities to issue Golden Visas to investors has become so intolerable that some are considering leaving the country. Portuguese law firms are [...]

Portugal’s immigration and asylum office AIMA reported that concessions of authorizations for residency rose 60% to 386,000 so far in 2025. Nevertheless, the President of the Administrative Board [...]

Some 286,302 overseas residents were waiting on a decision on getting an Authorisation for Residency in Portugal in 2024 according to the latest report from the Agency for Integration, Migration [...]

The CEO of Latvian Group Loom, a company that has €200 million to invest in Portugal, has been facing similar kinds of bureaucratic hurdles faced by the US tech company Cloudflare. The e-commerce [...]

Text: Chris Graeme Photo: Fernando Bento (ICPT) Low productivity is one of the main stumbling blocks to economic growth in Portugal according to Portugal’s Minister of Finances, Joaquim Miranda [...]

Portugal’s agency for Integration, Migration, and Asylum (AIMA) has decided to replace traditional paper applications for the government’s Golden Visa scheme with on-line digital forms as part of [...]

Life for those trying to get a residency visa to live and work in Portugal continues to be a nightmare as courts report that there are 46,824 applications for immigration and asylum stuck in a [...]

“It’s more chaotic than ever” the office manager of a leading multinational citizenship consultancy dealing with Golden Visa residency applications with an office in Lisbon confides to me over [...]