Immigration/Emigration

Portugal Golden Visa investors have filed an amicus curiae* brief this month – a legal complaint over the government’s delays and constitutional violations. And while a court did uphold a [...]

Judges sitting at Portugal’s Constitutional Court ruled this Monday on the Nationality Law, pointing out several rights that are not guaranteed. ​ It means that the law will now be sent back to [...]

Portugal’s New Nationality Law was approved by its parliament on Tuesday after a heated discussion between parties. The law was passed with votes from the PSD and Chega parties. “Today, [...]

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 [...]

Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has finally promulgated the controversial new Foreigners Law since it now “minimally corresponds to the essential doubts as to whether it was [...]

Portugal’s Foreigners Law, which defines the new legal regime for the entry, stay, exit or non-entry and expulsion of overseas citizens from Portuguese territory, has been approved by the [...]

As the government supported by populist party Chega is preparing to restrict immigration, a study has shown that reducing immigration to ‘zero’ would mean putting up taxes by 7.9% in Portugal to [...]

Portugal’s constitutional court has thrown out a law passed by parliament’s right-wing majority that was designed to limit the flow of immigrants. The reason judges gave was that the law created [...]

Fixando, an online contract services website in Portugal, saw a sharp increase in demand of 40% for immigration lawyers in July compared to the previous month. And the steep upward trend is [...]