Golden Visa

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 [...]

Russian investment in Portugal has increased 49% since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 according to the news source Público. And despite heavy international sanctions, Russian cash has been [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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, [...]

At the latest RedBridge Community event in Lisbon on June 20, Julian Johnson, founder and partner of Tejo Ventures and founder of the Little Lions project, and Jorge van Krieken, founder of Green [...]

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 [...]

The President of Portugal’s accountants association, Paula Franco, has asked the new centre-right government to fully restore Portugal’s successful and controversial Golden Visa programme. [...]

A study has identified the effect Portugal’s Golden Visa has had on house prices for properties worth €500,000, inflating them by up to 60%. The study from EUTAX says that while Residency by [...]