New Portugal Golden Visa Rules to Take Effect Within Days Following Promulgation Last Night
Out of veto options, Portugal’s President last night finally signed the new housing bill into law, enacting the new golden visa rules.
Read moreOut of veto options, Portugal’s President last night finally signed the new housing bill into law, enacting the new golden visa rules.
Read moreThe HQA Visa opens a pathway to residency in Portugal for entrepreneurs and their families and helps Portugal stay ahead of the tech curve.
Read moreThe SEF tackled only about 0.8% of its backlog of unprocessed applications in August. Meanwhile, hundreds of new applications piled up.
Read moreFrom our partners at Mercan Properties. The most realistic scenario now is for the new golden visa rules to take effect in early October.
Read moreParliament is likely to finally push through legislation next month, at which point golden visa real estate investment will be off the table.
Read moreBy the end of the 7th month of 2023, the SEF had approved 962 golden visas, already significantly more than the 865 approved in all of 2021.
Read moreGolden Visa funds must now limit their real estate exposure. Bluecrow details the most attractive sectors for fund investments going forward.
Read moreWhere investor immigrants are viewed with skepticism, entrepreneurs are welcomed and admired. Pivot to the HQA and make the loss of Golden Visa irrelevant.
Read moreAll that remains for the golden visa changes to take effect is promulgation by the President. Here are answers to your questions about the golden visa’s future.
Read moreThe final text of the bill set to pass next week prohibits funds from investing in real estate. But the program could still have several months left.
Read moreThose caught off-guard by golden visa’s end haven’t been listening to Portugal. The future is in entrepreneur-investor business incubation.
Read moreA source at the SEF says the agency has 7,802 pending applications. At current rates, processing these will take 6.8 years.
Read moreRequests for Portuguese nationality rose 37% to an all-time high of 74,506 in 2022. Authorities approved 98.6% of citizenship applications.
Read moreThe same governing party that introduced the bill to end the golden visa in the first place is now proposing to keep most of the program.
Read moreJerry Morgan of Mercan, the PGV’s biggest developer, says it’s been a “traumatic” year but that he’s “cautiously optimistic” about the future.
Read moreBritish investors are becoming more numerous and have now appeared in the monthly top-five nationalities list for 6 of the last 8 months.
Read moreNo retroactivity for post-February 16th applications, 7-days-a-year presence requirement preserved, and cultural investment visas kept.
Read morePortugal is likely to approve a record number of applications in 2023. As long as the housing bill in its current form doesn’t pass, that is.
Read morePatricia Casaburi points out that it’s ironic that golden visas are blamed for the housing crisis in Lisbon and Porto, where prices have risen sharply since these cities were excluded from the program.
Read moreIf the law is approved, investors will not get what they paid for. It’s “a violation of basic constitutional rights,” says one lawyer.
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