Golden Visa

This year application numbers for Portugal Golden Visas from US citizens overtook applications from Chinese nationals. However, Americans are now applying for other visa regimes enabling them to [...]

Portugal’s borders and immigration office SEF has over 60% of its Golden Visa renewal requests pendant. Holders of Golden Visas have to renew their visas every two years and SEF has made clear [...]

House-hunters from the United States of America were the number one nationality searching for homes in Portugal in the third quarter of 2022, and Americans are now the top applicants for [...]

Investment attracted through Portugal’s Golden Visa programme was up 6% in August in like-for-like terms, but month-on-month fell 14.5% to €37.5 million according to the latest data from SEF. In [...]

Investment from Portugal’s Golden Visa programme rose 33% in the first half of 2022 compared to H1 in 2021. According to the news agency Lusa and based on statistics from SEF, investment netted [...]

The Portuguese Parliament has rejected ending Portugal’s hugely successful ARI – Authorisation for Residency for Investment scheme which has attracted around €6Bn to the country since its [...]

Portugal is risking its golden visa programme, which has attracted €6Bn to the country since 2012, becoming completely discredited. Real estate and legal professionals involved in the process to [...]

Chinese investment in property through the Portuguese Government’s Golden Visa scheme fell 60% in the first quarter of this year like-for-like on 2021, to €20.7 million according to Portugal’s [...]

The avalanche of Golden Visa applications expected from property investors to beat the start-of-year deadline to changes which rule out Lisbon, Porto and parts of coastal Algarve has not [...]

Portugal’s Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors has balked at the suggestion that the end of the Golden Visa’s residential property investment path to residency through [...]