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Golden Visa Citizenship by joellensmail
Boa Noite, I am a US Citizen who is considering a Golden Visa Citizenship within the next 5-10 years. My husband and I would like to start the process but have some questions regarding the financial aspect of this citizenship. If we purchase a ...
@joellensmail I'm not an expert but as far as I know, there is no time limit to obtaining the visa. However, you do have to be resident in the US at the time you do the visa process. You can stay in Portugal for 90 days ( and they will extend this ... Read More
How did you ship all your stuff? by Steven Hoffman
I’m going to do a huge purge before I make the move. I don’t have much stuff. Maybe a couple of large boxes or travel trunk.thanks for helping me outsteven
Steven, so you could use 1 or 2 of the smaller crates at UPakWeShip ( 50 cu ft I think). See their web site. Read More
How did you ship all your stuff? by Steven Hoffman
I’m going to do a huge purge before I make the move. I don’t have much stuff. Maybe a couple of large boxes or travel trunk.thanks for helping me outsteven
@Steven Hoffman We also purged 90% of our Victorian furniture ( beds, couches etc) and ended up with a few tside tables, loads of kitchen stuff, clothes and tools. Definitely not a container load. So went with UPakWeShip. They use "crates" which are ... Read More
Appointments with SEF in Madeira - new information!
Are you fed up trying to get SEF on the phone? We just discovered, thanks to our fiscal agent, that SEF has opened a cubicle at the Loja do Cidadao ( Ave Arriaga) in Funchal that is solely for the purpose of making appointments. It's in "bay" 3. ... Read More
Sef appointment for d7 visa by Dany Baydoun
Hello, my d7 visa got approved and now i have it printed on my passport. I just realized that the automatic sef appointment was set after my visa gets expired. Expiration date is on November while sef appointment is on December.I am trying to call ...
Dany - you only need the travel/health insurance that you needed for the D7. There is a link to it on either the embassy web site or VFS global site - I can't remember which. Ours was 1000 euros for 2 of us for 1 year ( much cheaper than anything in ... Read More
Sef appointment for d7 visa by Dany Baydoun
Hello, my d7 visa got approved and now i have it printed on my passport. I just realized that the automatic sef appointment was set after my visa gets expired. Expiration date is on November while sef appointment is on December.I am trying to call ...
We just had our residency "interview" in Funchal Madeira. We had the D7 from Washington embassy.We took every piece of paper we could find ( lease, travel insurance etc). She didn't ask for any of it. Just the passports and NIF numbers. It took ... Read More
Sef appointment for d7 visa by Dany Baydoun
Hello, my d7 visa got approved and now i have it printed on my passport. I just realized that the automatic sef appointment was set after my visa gets expired. Expiration date is on November while sef appointment is on December.I am trying to call ...
We are also needing to get our2 year residency with a D7.I was so fed uo with the busy signals on SEF that I didn't listen to the recorded messages fully. One day I did and it said check the SEF web site ( www.sef.pt). When we put in our D7 ... Read More
Sef appointment for d7 visa by Dany Baydoun
Hello, my d7 visa got approved and now i have it printed on my passport. I just realized that the automatic sef appointment was set after my visa gets expired. Expiration date is on November while sef appointment is on December.I am trying to call ...
@Dany Baydoun We are also trying to get an appt with SEF. I call everyday just like they told me and yes its always busy. We still have 3 months before our D7 expires. But from previous posts on this forum I believe I might get thru at the ... Read More
Non resident Bank account by helpn764
Which Portuguese Banks let you open account a non resident account without visiting Portugal? I do have a Portuguese NIF.Thank you.
I had to use Bordr.io to open a bank account for me. I had no choice in choice of bank. They signed me up with Millennium BCP. It was a complicated process & involved a zoom account with a lawyer. However Bordr support was excellent and they ... Read More
No SEF appointments available by Cristian Toma
Hi everybody, I am a Romanian/Canadian citizen in Portugal, already got my Certificado de Registo, the rest of my family Canadian citizens (wife + 2 daughters). We have a rental contract, all of us have NIFs with Portuguese address, the girls are ...
This is great information as we hope to be in Madeira in June/July with a D7 visa and now we'll know when to start calling SEF. Although I am hopeful that it might be easier in Madeira. Read More
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 ...
Hi allI ( Shelagh) am British/American. Husband Keith is American. We are currently awaiting our visa interview in Washington DC so that hopefully we can move permanently to Madeira. Its been an arduous process as many of you know! Now ... Read More