An avalanche of confusion has been created by the Government’s decision to “freeze” all Golden Visa applications filed after February 16 – the day it announced a controversial Housing [...]
All applications for Portugal’s Golden Visa from 16 February this year are to be frozen and any new applications will not be accepted. The decision was taken to avoid a sudden rush to get [...]
The President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque expressed the hope that the end of the Portugal Golden Visa programme should be done in the smoothest way possible and in [...]
Investment in Portugal’s Golden Visa scheme stood at €65.6 million in November, an increase of 40% like-for-like on 2021. Nevertheless, in a classic case of ‘cutting off its nose to spite [...]
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 [...]
