CPLP Residence in Portugal

This guide covers the CPLP residence permit — the special route for nationals of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, set out in Article 87.º-A of Lei n.º 23/2007. It exists because of the CPLP Mobility Agreement signed in Luanda on 17 July 2021, approved by Resolução da Assembleia da República n.º 313/2021 and brought into Portuguese law by Lei n.º 18/2022, de 25 de agosto.

It does not cover the ordinary routes a CPLP national may also use — Work Residence (D1), the Digital Nomad Visa (D8), Passive Income (D7), Student Residence (D4), the Entrepreneur route (D2), Highly Qualified work (D3), the Researcher route or Family Reunification. Being a CPLP national is a status, not a purpose: you still need a reason to reside in Portugal. If you are not sure which route is yours, start with Which Immigration Route Is Right for You?.

Is this route for you?

Use this route if all of these are true:

• You are a national of a CPLP member state.
• You want a permit under the special CPLP regime rather than under an ordinary article.
• You are prepared to obtain a residence visa at a Portuguese consulate before you travel. There is no longer any other way in.
• You can show accommodation in Portugal, and either means of subsistence or an accepted term of responsibility.

Use another guide if you already have a Portuguese job offer (Work Residence), you are coming to study (Student Residence — CPLP nationals admitted to a Portuguese higher-education institution are exempt from proving means entirely), you work remotely for foreign clients (Digital Nomad), you live on passive income (Passive Income (D7)), or you are joining a family member already resident here (Family Reunification).

One honest warning about route choice. Some ordinary routes carry advantages the CPLP route does not. A highly qualified permit under Article 90.º exempts your family from the two-year reunification wait; the CPLP permit does not. If you qualify for both, the article you choose decides your family's timeline. That is worth an hour of thought before you file.

One-minute summary

You apply at a Portuguese consulate for a residence visa matched to your purpose, using the consulate's CPLP-specific checklist where it publishes one. You travel on that visa. In Portugal you attend an AIMA appointment and apply for the permit under Article 87.º-A. If granted, it is valid for 2 years.

The visa stage is the stage that changed. Everything downstream of it works much as it always did.

The three dates that decide your case

Almost every error published about CPLP residence comes from mixing up three dates.

17 July 2021 — the Mobility Agreement is signed in Luanda, and enters Portuguese law as Lei n.º 18/2022, creating Article 87.º-A.

*Legal Interpretation.* The agreement never granted visa-free travel, and never granted free movement between Portuguese-speaking countries. Portugal expressly carved out the short-stay provisions when it signed, because Schengen governs its short-stay borders and Portugal cannot open them unilaterally (Ministry of Foreign Affairs note, 31 December 2021). The accord simplifies visa procedures; it never replaced them. If you have read that CPLP citizens "move freely" in the lusophone space, that was wrong from the first day — not merely out of date.

4 June 2024 — the *manifestação de interesse* is abolished. Decreto-Lei n.º 37-A/2024 revoked the expression-of-interest routes: Article 81(6) and (7), Article 88(2) and (6), Article 89(2), (4) and (5). Most guides blame this decree for killing the CPLP in-country route.

It did not. DL 37-A/2024 left Article 87.º-A untouched. The CPLP route stayed open for another sixteen months. Anyone who tells you it died in June 2024 has not read the decree — and anyone who filed in that window is in a different legal position from someone filing today.

23 October 2025 — Lei n.º 61/2025 enters into force. This is the date that matters. It rewrote Article 87.º-A(1) and Article 75.º(2): a CPLP national must now hold a residence visa to apply. It also quietly revoked Article 52.º-A(1)(c) — the rule that a CPLP applicant's visa could be refused only where there was an alert in the Schengen Information System. That near-automatic visa guarantee is gone. A consulate can now refuse a CPLP residence visa on the ordinary grounds that apply to anyone else.

If you started your process before 23 October 2025

*Official Requirement.* Article 8.º of Lei n.º 61/2025 is a non-retroactivity rule: procedures started before 23 October 2025 are still governed by the old law. If you filed before that date, the new visa requirement does not apply to that procedure.

• Keep proof of your filing date. A receipt, a portal confirmation, a payment reference, a registered-post slip. If the date is ever questioned, that document is the answer.
• A pending procedure is not a status you can rebuild. If it is withdrawn or refused, or you abandon it and start again, the new law applies to the new procedure — and the new procedure needs a consular visa.
• Do not assume AIMA will get your dates right. The transitional rule is a legal position, not a button in a system. If AIMA applies the new rules to an old file, that is a dispute about the applicable law — and that is a lawyer's job.

The complete process

Step 1 — Confirm your nationality and your purpose

The route attaches to nationality, not residence: living in a CPLP country is not enough. Then answer the harder question — what are you coming to Portugal to do? The CPLP regime is not a purpose in itself, and the visa you receive is matched to the purpose you declare.

Step 2 — Apply for the residence visa at a Portuguese consulate

*Official Requirement.* Apply at the consulate or authorised visa centre responsible for where you legally reside. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes a CPLP-specific documentation list alongside its general national-visa lists — ask for it by name. Using the general checklist when a CPLP one exists is a common and avoidable source of friction.

The fee for any national visa is €110 (Portaria n.º 91/2025/1, in force since 11 March 2025) and the official decision period is 60 days.

*Watch out for the official pages themselves.* Several gov.pt service pages still print the old €90. They are stale; the Ministry is who charges the fee, and the Portaria is the law. Confirm the amount with your consular post before paying.

*Observed Practice.* Sixty days is the official service timeframe — not a promise. Document requests, security checks and suspensions all lengthen the real duration. Do not book a flight against the 60 days.

Step 3 — Travel, and put the Portuguese basics in place

Check the visa before you fly: name, passport number, validity dates, number of entries. A residence visa is normally valid for two entries and four months.

When the Ministry issues a consular residence visa it normally creates the AIMA appointment at the same time, reachable through the link printed on the visa sticker. Open that link before you travel and save a PDF of the date, time and office. If there is no appointment, use AIMA's contact form and select the residence-permit topic — and pay nobody for it.

In Portugal you will need a NIF, and in most cases a NISS. See The Documents You'll Need.

Step 4 — The AIMA appointment (Article 87.º-A)

You attend in person, by appointment, with originals. AIMA checks your identity and documents, formally receives the application, collects biometrics and takes the charges. It may request more evidence afterwards. Do not assume anything you gave the consulate has reached AIMA, or is still current — bring it all again.

Step 5 — The permit

*Official Requirement.* The CPLP permit is granted for 2 years on first issue. Renewal is for 3 years, or 2, depending on the remaining validity at the time of renewal.

*Official Requirement.* Since Lei n.º 9/2025 and Portaria n.º 36-B/2025/1, the permit is issued in the EU uniform residence-permit model — in AIMA's own words, the same as any other temporary residence permit. The old Portaria n.º 97/2023 A4 paper certificate, valid only inside Portugal, is history.

Documents

Passport or travel document. Valid, and valid long enough to cover the procedure.

The residence visa. Since 23 October 2025 this is the foundation of the whole application. Without it, at the AIMA stage, there is nothing to grant.

Criminal-record certificate. *Official Requirement.* From your country of nationality, or from a country where you have lived more than one year — it is an or, not an and. Under-16s are exempt. *Practical Advice.* Neither AIMA nor the Ministry publishes any validity window for it. The 90-day rule you read everywhere is consular and visa-centre practice, not a published rule. Get one issued within about three months of filing and you avoid the argument. Separately, you will authorise the Portuguese authorities to consult the Portuguese criminal record.

Translation and legalisation. *Official Requirement.* Documents in English, French and Spanish need no translation (art. 49.º/8, Código do Registo Civil) — a correction worth real money. Portuguese documents obviously need none either. Everything else needs a certified translation. Hague-country documents need an apostille; non-signatory documents, consular legalisation. EU-issued documents need no formalisation at all (Regulation (EU) 2016/1191). Brazilian, Angolan, Mozambican, Cabo Verdean and São Toméan documents are already in Portuguese — this is where CPLP nationality quietly saves you time and money.

Proof of accommodation. *Official Requirement.* AIMA asks for a declaration under oath of your address, stating the legal basis on which you occupy it, plus either a land-registry certificate (owner or usufructuary) or a declaration from the landlord or hosting entity identifying that legal basis. *Practical Advice.* AIMA's own list does not demand a twelve-month lease registered with Finanças, and it does not mention "Modelo 2" — which is the landlord's stamp-duty form for the tax authority and is not an immigration document at all. A consulate may still ask for a lease at the visa stage; that is practice, at a different stage.

Proof of means of subsistence. *Official Requirement.* The scale is set by Portaria n.º 1563/2007 and moves automatically with the minimum wage. In 2026 the minimum wage is €920/month (Decreto-Lei n.º 139/2025): 100% (€920) for the first adult, 50% (€460) per additional adult, 30% (€276) per child. Or a term of responsibility — see below.

AIMA Modelo 1 (the application form) and, where applicable, Modelo 4 (the term of responsibility).

NIF and NISS. *Practical Advice.* There is a known catch: AIMA wants a NISS to complete a renewal, while Social Security often asks a foreign national for a residence permit before issuing one. The State's own escape hatch is that Social Security may accept another civil identification document from your country of origin. If AIMA has your NISS missing or wrong, its contact form can correct it — AIMA says within two working days.

The term of responsibility (Modelo 4)

*Official Requirement.* For CPLP nationals, proof of means of subsistence may be exceptionally waived on presentation of a term of responsibility (*termo de responsabilidade*) — a declaration signed by a Portuguese citizen, or a foreign citizen holding Portuguese residence, with the signature notarised in Portugal, undertaking to provide those means in accordance with current legislation.

For an applicant who meets every requirement except the money, this is the most consequential provision in the whole framework — and many people abandon an application without ever learning it exists.

*Practical Advice.* It is a real legal undertaking by the person who signs, not a formality. Confirm the current form and signature requirements with your consulate or AIMA on the day: the acceptable format has changed before.

Fees

*Official Requirement.* CPLP nationals are exempt from the AIMA fee for granting or renewing the permit itself, under the fee table in force since 1 March 2026. The exemption covers all CPLP states except Timor-Leste. What you actually pay is reception and analysis of the application plus forms and title: €79.10, or €59.40 through the digital channel (a 25% reduction).

*Watch out for the number everybody quotes.* €56.80 appears in almost every guide, forum post and agency page about CPLP residence. It is AIMA's February 2025 figure and it is stale. The whole table was re-indexed on 1 March 2026; any AIMA euro figure sourced before that date is wrong.

*And an honest flag about the official table itself.* AIMA's exemption heading says "all CPLP states except Timor-Leste" — but the list printed beneath it names only six countries, and Equatorial Guinea is missing. The heading and the list contradict each other. We will not paper over that: if you are an Equatorial Guinean national, treat your fee status as unresolved and ask AIMA to confirm it in writing before your appointment.

The €110 consular visa fee is a separate table, charged by a separate ministry. Both are re-indexed. Check the current figures immediately before you pay — not against this page.

How long does it take?

*Official Requirement.* The residence visa has an official decision period of 60 days.

For the AIMA stage we will not publish an average, because there is no honest one to publish. What we can give you are the government's own numbers.

*Observed Practice.* The government's EMAIMA balance sheet of 18 December 2025 — its own figures, marked provisional — reports CPLP decisions 72% complete, out of roughly 215,000 CPLP cases, and permit renewals just 10% complete.

Read those two numbers together. The backlog is not cleared. The political line that AIMA "enters 2026 without the backpack" is not what the government's own balance sheet says: more than a quarter of CPLP decisions were still outstanding at the end of 2025, and the renewal queue had barely started. Plan for waiting. Keep every receipt.

Travelling, and staying legal

*Official Requirement.* A receipt is not a travel document. AIMA says so in terms: *"O recibo comprovativo do pedido de concessão de autorização de residência não é um documento de viagem."* A pending appointment is not one either. If you leave Portugal on a receipt, you may not get back in.

Automatic extensions ended on 15 October 2025. For years, expired permits were kept alive by decree. That is over. An expired permit is invalid — unless you have started the renewal, which produces a *comprovativo* valid for 180 days. Start your renewal early; do not let the card lapse and assume a decree will catch you.

Schengen travel — we are going to be precise rather than reassuring. The CPLP permit is now issued in the EU uniform model, like any other temporary residence permit (AIMA's own words), and the Portugal-only paper certificate is gone. But no primary official source states the travel right in terms — not AIMA, not the Ministry, not the law. So we will tell you only what we can support: your permit is issued in the same format as any other Portuguese temporary residence permit. We will not promise Schengen travel on top of that, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does.

Can you convert a CPLP permit into a standard permit?

This is the most dangerous question in this guide, and we will answer it honestly rather than helpfully.

We could not find any official conversion procedure. Not at AIMA. Not on gov.pt. Not in the Diário da República. Lei n.º 61/2025 does contain a transitional rule about converting permits — but it covers Article 88 and 89 permits into Article 90 permits, and it says nothing about CPLP.

So we will not publish a conversion path, because we cannot find one. If anyone — an agency, a forum, a consultant, a lawyer — tells you your CPLP permit can be converted into a standard Article 88 or 89 permit, ask for the legal basis in writing: the article, the diploma, the AIMA page. If they cannot produce it, do not pay them and do not act on it.

*Practical Advice.* What we can say is that the CPLP permit is an *autorização de residência temporária*, and the ordinary routes remain open to you like anyone else. If you need a different article, the realistic conversation is with a lawyer about your dates and your file — not with a guide.

Family reunification: CPLP does not exempt you

*Official Requirement.* Under Article 98.º/1, as rewritten by Lei n.º 61/2025, a sponsor must hold a permit valid for at least two years before bringing family. Article 98.º/3(c) lists the permits that escape that wait: Article 90.º (highly qualified, teaching, cultural), Article 90.º-A (investment/ARI) and Article 121.º-A (EU Blue Card).

Article 87.º-A is not on that list. The two-year rule applies to CPLP holders like everyone else.

*Legal Interpretation — and unresolved.* The practical position may be worse than the legal one. AIMA's own family-reunification FAQ — which AIMA itself marks *"em revisão"* — still says only holders of a *Título de Residência* may apply for reunification at all, and does not list AR CPLP holders among them. We could not resolve whether that reflects current practice or a stale page. We are flagging it rather than smoothing it over: get the position confirmed by AIMA in writing before you build a plan on it. The full picture is in Family Reunification in Portugal.

Citizenship: the advantage survives — and there is a trap

*Official Requirement.* Lei Orgânica n.º 1/2026, de 18 de maio, in force since 19 May 2026, sets naturalisation at 7 years of legal residence for nationals of Portuguese-language countries — and for citizens of EU Member States — against 10 years for everyone else. Guides that present the seven-year track as CPLP-only are leaving out half the rule.

*Official Requirement.* Article 15.º(2) expressly preserves *"os regimes especiais de residência legal resultantes de tratados… designadamente… da CPLP"* as legal residence. Your CPLP residence counts. That is settled.

Three things that are not comfortable.

The clock went from 5 years to 7. The advantage is real, but smaller than it was. A great many people were planning around five.

The transitional rule saves only applications ALREADY FILED by 19 May 2026. This is the most consequential fact on this page. Article 7.º/2 protects pending administrative procedures — applications already submitted on that date. Merely having five years of residence on 19 May 2026 protects nobody. If you had the five years and had not filed, you are now on the seven-year clock.

The rule that let residence count from the application date was repealed. You will read everywhere that "the clock now starts at card issuance". *Legal Interpretation.* That sentence is not in the statute. What happened is that Lei Orgânica n.º 1/2026 repealed article 15.º/4 of Lei n.º 37/81 — the provision that let residence count from the date you applied. What survives (article 15.º/1) counts only time spent holding a title, visa or authorisation. The practical effect is close to what the blogs say, but the law does not contain the sentence they quote — so be careful whom you trust with your dates. The detail is in Becoming a Portuguese Citizen.

Permanent residence: a gap we will not fill

The CPLP permit is legally an *autorização de residência temporária* — the ordinary precursor to permanent residence, which requires five years (Article 80.º, unchanged by Lei n.º 61/2025).

*Legal Interpretation.* But no primary source confirms that CPLP residence counts toward those five years, and we will not assert it merely because it sounds obvious. It is very probably yes. It is not confirmed. If permanent residence is the point of your plan, get it confirmed for your file. Note too that permanent residence (5 years) and citizenship (7 or 10 years) are different clocks — readers conflate them constantly, and the 2026 nationality change did not touch the permanent-residence rule.

Estatuto de Igualdade: what it is, and what it is not

Three different things get mixed together in almost every Brazilian conversation about Portugal.

The CPLP residence permit is immigration status. It lets you live here.

The Estatuto de Igualdade de Direitos e Deveres (Porto Seguro Treaty) is a statute of equal rights and duties for Brazilian nationals. *Official Requirement.* It presupposes that you already hold a valid Portuguese residence permit. It is not an alternative way in, and it does not waive the visa. It grants equality of rights and, with the political-rights statute, allows voting in local elections after two years of residence and standing as a candidate after four.

Portuguese nationality is neither of the above. The Estatuto is not citizenship, gives you no Portuguese passport, and does not shorten the naturalisation clock.

The Estatuto is something you get after you are legally resident. It is not a door.

Common mistakes

• Believing you can still enter visa-free and regularise from inside Portugal. That ended on 23 October 2025.
• Believing the CPLP agreement gives free movement between Portuguese-speaking countries. It never did.
• Thinking the June 2024 abolition of the *manifestação de interesse* closed the route. It did not — and the difference matters for anyone who filed between June 2024 and October 2025.
• Citing Article 88 as the legal basis. It is Article 87.º-A.
• Quoting the €56.80 fee. It is AIMA's February 2025 figure and it is stale.
• Assuming the consular visa is near-automatic. Article 52.º-A(1)(c) was revoked.
• Assuming the permit lasts one year. It is two.
• Treating a receipt or a pending appointment as a travel document, or letting a permit lapse in the hope of a decree. Automatic extensions ended 15 October 2025.
• Assuming CPLP nationality exempts you from the two-year family-reunification rule. It does not.
• Planning a five-year citizenship timeline, or believing that simply *having* five years on 19 May 2026 protected you. Only a filed application did.
• Paying an intermediary for a free AIMA appointment, or acting on a "CPLP to Article 88 conversion" that nobody can cite a legal basis for.

Exceptional situations

You are already in Portugal without valid status

This is common, it is serious, and there is no general fix. The in-country routes have closed. Do not act on advice describing the old regime, and do not let an overstay accumulate while you research — every month makes every future application harder. What is possible depends entirely on your dates, your entry, and what you filed and when. That is a lawyer's job.

Your consular visa was issued without a visible AIMA appointment

AIMA has operated a specific scheduling channel for CPLP nationals in exactly this position, asking for the visa number, the passport number and copies of both. The forms and contact-form categories change — use the current ones on AIMA's site on the day, and pay nobody.

You hold an old CPLP permit and cannot renew it

Renewal of the legacy permits has been a recurring failure, and the government's own figures put renewals at 10% complete at the end of 2025. Start the renewal before the permit expires: that produces the *comprovativo* valid 180 days, which is now the only thing standing between you and an invalid status.

You filed before 23 October 2025 and AIMA is applying the new rules

Article 8.º of Lei n.º 61/2025 says your procedure is governed by the old law. If AIMA is not applying it that way, you have a dispute about the applicable law, with deadlines attached. Read any written decision carefully, note every deadline, and get advice quickly — that is a lawyer's job.

Frequently asked questions

Is CPLP a visa?

No, and it never was. It is a special residence regime (Article 87.º-A) created by a mobility agreement. Since 23 October 2025 you need an ordinary consular residence visa to use it.

I am Brazilian. Can I still fly to Lisbon and regularise there?

No. Not since 23 October 2025. You need a residence visa from a Portuguese consulate before you travel. Visa-free tourist entry was never permission to move, and it is no longer a route to a permit either.

But I read that CPLP citizens move freely between Portuguese-speaking countries.

That was never true of Portugal. Portugal expressly excluded the short-stay provisions of the Mobility Agreement when it signed, because of its Schengen obligations. The agreement simplifies visa procedures; it never replaced them.

Didn't the CPLP route die in June 2024, with the *manifestação de interesse*?

No. DL 37-A/2024 revoked Articles 81(6,7), 88(2,6) and 89(2,4,5) — and left Article 87.º-A untouched. The CPLP route survived another sixteen months.

I filed before 23 October 2025. Which law applies?

The old one, for that procedure — Article 8.º of Lei n.º 61/2025 is expressly non-retroactive. Keep proof of your filing date.

How long is the permit valid, and what does it cost?

Two years on first grant. At AIMA, CPLP nationals are exempt from the fee for the permit itself: you pay about €79.10, or €59.40 digitally. The consular visa is a separate €110. Ignore the €56.80 you will see everywhere.

I am from Equatorial Guinea. Am I fee-exempt?

We cannot tell you honestly. AIMA's exemption heading says all CPLP states except Timor-Leste, but the list beneath it omits Equatorial Guinea. The table contradicts itself. Ask AIMA to confirm your position in writing before your appointment.

Can I travel in Schengen with a CPLP permit?

Your permit is now issued in the EU uniform model — the same as any other temporary permit (AIMA's words). But no official source states the travel right in terms, so we will not promise it. Confirm before you book, and be sceptical of anyone who promises it flatly.

Can I convert my CPLP permit into a standard Article 88 or 89 permit?

We could not find any official conversion procedure — not at AIMA, not on gov.pt, not in the Diário da República. Lei n.º 61/2025's transitional conversion rule covers Articles 88 and 89 into Article 90 only, and is silent on CPLP. If someone says a conversion exists, ask for the legal basis in writing.

Can I bring my family?

Through family reunification — and CPLP does not exempt you from the two-year sponsor rule. Article 98.º/3(c) exempts only Articles 90.º, 90.º-A and 121.º-A. Be aware that AIMA's own FAQ (marked "under revision") does not list AR CPLP holders among those who may apply at all; get the position confirmed before planning around it.

Does my CPLP residence count toward citizenship, and how long does it take?

Yes — Lei Orgânica n.º 1/2026, article 15.º(2), preserves the CPLP regimes as legal residence. The clock is seven years for nationals of Portuguese-language countries and, less often mentioned, for EU citizens; ten for everyone else. It was five before 19 May 2026.

I had five years of residence in May 2026. Am I protected?

Only if you had already filed. The transitional rule protects pending applications on 19 May 2026 — not people who merely qualified. This is the most costly misunderstanding on this page.

Does my CPLP residence count toward permanent residence?

Very probably — it is an ordinary temporary permit. But no primary source confirms it, so we will not assert it. Permanent residence is a five-year clock and is unchanged; citizenship is a seven- or ten-year clock. They are different.

Isn't the Estatuto de Igualdade an easier way in?

No. It presupposes a valid residence permit. It is not an alternative route, does not waive the visa, and is not nationality. It grants equality of rights, plus local-election voting after two years and candidacy after four.

Do I need a criminal-record certificate, and do my documents need translating?

Yes to the certificate — from your country of nationality or a country where you have lived more than a year, not both, and with no published validity window (get it recently issued anyway). Brazilian and other lusophone documents are already in Portuguese; documents in English, French or Spanish need no translation either.

Do I still have to prove means of subsistence?

Either that, or an accepted term of responsibility signed by a Portuguese citizen or resident with a notarised signature. The 2026 scale is €920/month for the first adult, +€460 for a second adult, +€276 per child.

My permit expired. Is there still an automatic extension?

No. Automatic extensions ended on 15 October 2025. An expired permit is invalid unless you have started the renewal, which gives you a *comprovativo* valid 180 days.

Is a lawyer compulsory?

No. But if you are irregular, if AIMA is applying the new law to an old file, if you are fighting a refusal, or if your citizenship dates are contested — that is a lawyer's job, and worth paying for early rather than late.

Before you submit: final checklist

• Nationality of a CPLP member state confirmed; purpose of residence identified.
• Residence visa obtained at the consulate before travelling — the whole route now depends on this.
• The consulate's CPLP-specific checklist obtained and followed, not the general one.
• Passport valid for the whole procedure.
• Criminal record from the correct country, recently issued; Portuguese criminal-record consultation authorised.
• Translation/apostille done only where actually needed — not for Portuguese, English, French or Spanish documents.
• Accommodation evidence: sworn declaration of address stating the legal basis, plus registry certificate or landlord/hosting declaration.
• Means of subsistence proved, or a properly notarised term of responsibility obtained.
• NIF ready; NISS ready, or the AIMA correction route understood.
• AIMA appointment link opened and saved; originals packed.
• If you filed before 23 October 2025: proof of the filing date, kept somewhere you cannot lose it.

Keeping up when the rules keep moving

This route has changed twice in two years — the *manifestação de interesse* in June 2024, then the visa requirement in October 2025 — and your exposure does not end when you file. Renewal rules, fee tables and the family and citizenship clocks will all move again while your permit runs.

Portugeasy's monitoring subscription (€5/month) tracks AIMA's published rules against the profile you declare, and tells you when a published change affects a case like yours. To be exact about what that is: it watches the rules, not your file. We cannot see inside your AIMA case, we do not know your status, and nobody outside AIMA does. What we can do is make sure that the next time this route changes, you are not the last to find out.

Sources

• AIMA — Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs — national visas
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs — visa fees (emolumentos)
• Portuguese immigration law — consolidated Lei n.º 23/2007
• Portuguese nationality law — consolidated Lei n.º 37/81
• CPLP — Community of Portuguese Language Countries