Migration Service for Portugal

The Residence Permit for Investment Activity (RPIA), effective as from 8 October 2012 (Law n.º 29/2012, of 9 August 2012, which changed the immigration legislation, Law n.º 23/2007, of 4 July 2007), with new changes on 30 June 2015 (Law n.º 63/2015), allows for foreign citizens outside the European Union to invest in Portugal and obtain a temporary residence permit. The Portuguese Residence Permit for Investment Activity, commonly known as Golden Visa, is one of the most attractive programs for international investors, considering it is a very simple one with clear and straight forward legal requirements.

Benefits:

The bearer of the Residence Permit for Investment (RPIA) has excellent benefits, namely:

• Possibility to enter the Portuguese territory without residency Visa.
• Live and work in Portugal.
• Free movement (without a Visa) within the Schengen Area, constituted by 26 European countries.
• Minimum need of stay in Portuguese territory, since the bearer only has to stay for a minimum of 7 (seven) days in the first year after obtaining the permit, and 14 (fourteen) days in the two following years.
• Benefit of the family reunification, including spouse, under aged children, children of age who are dependents, first degree ancestors who are dependents of the bearer or of his spouse and under aged siblings who are dependents.
• To become eligible for PERMANENT RESIDENCY after 5 (five) years of temporary residency, by obeying the effective legal requirements;

To become eligible for PORTUGUESE CITIZENSHIP after 5 (five) years of residency, by obeying the effective legal requirements.

General Reneral Requirements:

• Legal entrance in Portugal;
• The approval of the request of residency will only occur after the approval of the investment;
• A minimum time lapse of 5(five) years for the maintenance of investment activities, counting as from the date of the beginning of the residency permit;
• The funds invested must be from abroad;
• Absence of breach of migration obligations by the Portuguese and Schengen Area registries;
• Absence of conviction in Portugal for a crime punishable with a jail sentence of over 1 (one) year;
• Being over the time entrance limit in national territory after a prohibition period, following a restraining order of the country.

Please do contact us, should you have any further inquiry or concerns. We will be happy to assist. By contacting us, you have made ‘the first step in getting it right’. Migration is usually an once-in-a-lifetime affair! Our experience will assure things go hassle-free and completely smoothly.

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Please do contact us, for any further inquiry or concerns.

We will be happy to assist. By contacting us, you have made 'the first step in getting it right'. Migration is usually a once-in-a-lifetime affair! Our experience will assure things go hassle-free and completely smoothly.