Investment Visas

Debating Portugal’s Golden Visa and Real Estate policies Text & Photo: Chris Graeme Whether you agree with selling residency and a pathway to citizenship through Golden Visa programmes or [...]

An opinion piece published in the online news source ECO by Fernando Ferreira suggests that the Golden Visa should not just be seen as a way of attracting capital but a talent attraction platform [...]

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 [...]

Spain has scrapped its Golden Visa property option programme as of Wednesday April 2 after launching the FDI attraction vehicle in 2014. Portugal had already scrapped the property investment path [...]

The President of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance, João Moreira Rato, has slammed the announcement of the end of the Golden Visa regime by the previous government in February, [...]

Portugal’s allure for affluent investors seeking its Golden Visa remains undimmed with demand set to increase by 20% in 2024, according to experts, even with real estate no longer [...]

After Portugal effectively axing its money-spinning Golden Visa scheme except for a fund investment option, Spain has now announced it will do the same. Says the BBC, Spanish government ministers [...]

Text: Chris Graeme The way that Portugal communicated the end of its famous Golden Visa and Non-Habitual Resident programmes in 2023 has widely been condemned as a disaster – a disaster for [...]

There has been a lot of talk in the overseas press that Portugal’s Golden Visa is dead; that is far from the truth. In 2023 many investors simply shifted from the property route which had been [...]

The CEO of developers Casais, António Rodrigues, has blasted the government’s decision this month to terminate the Non-Habitual Residents scheme that provides tax breaks for wealthy EU-based [...]