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American looking for information about Portugal

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Registration: 07 April 2022

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Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
JohnnyPT

How to learn European Portuguese by JohnnyPT

Why Portuguese ?Learning Portuguese does take a lot of work, I admit it is a challenge (especially grammar and pronunciation), but there are a lot of benefits to being able to speak Portuguese as well. It will empower you and can also be fun and ...

Hannahmazing

By the way I can REALLY recommend Por do Sol, it is hilarious - a spoof on telenovelas. I am already on season 2. You can watch FREE (in Portugal) via the links above, and choose either English or Portuguese subtitles. I watch first with ... Read More

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2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

Oh, and Santander did not need any of the documents notarized, as asked about in my other post. Also, none of the other banks asked for any "notarized" documents. They just asked for other things I didn't have with me (an actual SSN card, an ... Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

Another things that was surprising was that she had never heard of the D7 visa. She wanted to know "why" do you want to open the account? There had to be a justifiable reason. When I told her because of the D7 visa, she had no idea what I was ... Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

UPDATE: I was able to open an account with Santander, in person. 2 things that various banks asked for, which I didn't know they would:SSN card (social security number) - the actual card, not just the numberWork contract / proof of income (ie rental ... Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

I guess I'll try Santander next! Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

(This is for the D7 visa, to be clear) Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

I also went to BIG, but they also said they only do investment accounts with large amounts of money Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

Well both millennium and novo bank have denied me an account, here in Lisbon. Millennium said that one month ago a new requirement came into place that requires any new account to have an official residence in Portugal. And novo bank said that ... Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

Thanks everybody! Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
JohnnyPT

How to learn European Portuguese by JohnnyPT

Why Portuguese ?Learning Portuguese does take a lot of work, I admit it is a challenge (especially grammar and pronunciation), but there are a lot of benefits to being able to speak Portuguese as well. It will empower you and can also be fun and ...

Hannahmazing

This is extremely helpful!! Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Hannahmazing

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)? by Hannahmazing

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ...

Hannahmazing

(I meant to post this under "banking", not sure how to move it. ) Read More

Hannahmazing created a thread
2 years ago

Personal bank recommendations (from own experience)?

There's an extremely helpful post here about opening a Portuguese bank for non residents, here: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=933658 But I'm wondering if anybody here has any positive reviews to share or personal recommendations for ... Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Julien

New members of the Portugal forum, introduce yourselves here - 2022 by Julien

Hi all, Newbie on the Portugal forum? Don't know how to start? This thread is for you ;) We invite you to introduce yourself on this topic, to share with us your expat story if you are already living in the country, or to tell us more on ...

Hannahmazing

Hi again! I am not able to post a new topic in the forums. Is there something I need to do to be able to post? Thanks :) Read More

Hannahmazing replied to a thread
2 years ago
Julien

New members of the Portugal forum, introduce yourselves here - 2022 by Julien

Hi all, Newbie on the Portugal forum? Don't know how to start? This thread is for you ;) We invite you to introduce yourself on this topic, to share with us your expat story if you are already living in the country, or to tell us more on ...

Hannahmazing

Hi, my name is Hannah, I'm an american looking to move to Portugal with the d7 visa! Thanks for this forum! Read More