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PORTUGAL – Residence Permits Extended until June 30, 2025
July 5, 2024
Portuguese authorities have extended the validity of Residence Permits and Visas until June 30, 2025, to address ongoing delays in processing, effective from June 29, 2024.
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January 4, 2024
Portugal has enacted a further extension for Residence Permits and National Visas in response to processing delays.
Read MorePORTUGAL – Ending Golden Visas, New Airbnb Rentals
February 24, 2023
As part of a new package of reforms. Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced his intention to end his Portugal’s golden visa program and ban new Airbnb rentals in urban centers.
Read MorePORTUGAL – Residence Permits Extended until 31 December 2023
February 10, 2023
In response to extensive processing delays, Portugal has extended residence permits due to expire in 2023, to the end of the year.
Read MorePORTUGAL: Amendments to Immigration Law Announced Through Law on Foreign Nationals
September 16, 2022
The purpose is to introduce a number of amendments to existing immigration laws in Portugal, including expanding eligibility for key employment-based visas to remote workers employed or self-employed abroad, whilst also introducing a new jobseeker visa type, where jobseekers previously were not eligible for a tailored immigration status.
Read MorePORTUGAL: Visa and Residence Procedures Simplified
October 3, 2018
A new decree published 11 Sept 2018, took effect in Portugal on 1 Oct 2018. As well as implementing 2017 amendments to immigration law, transposing some EU Directives into Portuguese law, the decree seeks to simplify visa application and residence permit procedures and to reduce processing times.
Read MorePORTUGAL: EU Directives Will Take Effect 1 October 2018
September 14, 2018
Decree Law no. 9/2018, published on 11 September 2018 and effective 1 October 2018, implements the latest amendments to the immigration law in Portugal, which in turn were published on 28 August 2017.
Read MoreCANADA & PORTUGAL: New Opportunities for Young Workers
May 9, 2018
Starting in 2019, the new bilateral Youth Mobility Arrangement between Canada and Portugal will authorise up to 2,000 Canadian nationals aged 18 to 35 to live and work in Portugal, and up to 2,000 Portuguese nationals aged 18 to 35 to live and work in Canada for periods of up to two years.
Read MorePORTUGAL: New Immigration Law Introduces EU Intra-Corporate Transfer Permit
October 21, 2017
Law no. 102/2017 of 28th August 2017 transposes into Portuguese law European Union (EU) Directive 2014/66 “on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals in the framework of an intra-corporate transfer” by introducing a new residence permit category for intra-corporate transfer (ICT). This new law also adopts into Portuguese law Directive 2014/36/EU on […]
Read MorePORTUGAL: New Notification and Document Storage Requirements for Posted Workers
June 30, 2017
Law no. 29/2017 of 30th May 2017 transposes into Portuguese law European Union (EU) Directive 2014/67 (concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services). Effective 31st May 2017, all EU-based companies posting (seconding) employees to Portugal, as well as Portugal-based companies posting employees to another EU member state, must comply […]
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