Marco Cerrato […] says the scrapping of Portugal’s special tax regime “plays in favour for Italy and other countries”.
Requests for Portuguese nationality rose 37% to an all-time high of 74,506 in 2022. Authorities approved 98.6% of citizenship applications.
“I call it gross negligence from the government to allow this to happen to something that was really important to the economy.”
IM people in the news this week include David Lesperance, Christian Kälin, Murat Coskun, and Inês Azevedo.
Investment migration people in the news this week include: Jean François Harvey of Harvey Law Group Aaron Grau of IIUSA
Inês Azevedo says that, because of shifting COVID-rules, “I sometimes feel that my clients are like Tom Hanks in the movie The Terminal.”
Two months ago, President de Sousa vetoed the amendments that Parliament had approved, but not because he objects to jus sanguinis.