Immigration/Emigration

Complaints over service and process waiting times at Portugal’s immigration office AIMA were up again in the first four months of 2026. The data was released as AIMA staff went on a four-day [...]

Portugal’s immigration office continues to be beset by a crisis of confidence as complaints against the institution climbed 36%. The number of complaints against AIMA (Agency for Integration, [...]

A new survey of Americans who are considering actively planning, or already living in Portugal found that 49.0% would consider renouncing their US citizenship after securing Portuguese [...]

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 [...]