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D6 visa (Family Reunification Visa)

Last activity 26 November 2023 by Tamiii

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Tamiii

My husband and I are both foreigners and would like to have our child in Portugal after staying for more than a year and let our child have Portuguese citizenship.


My husband has a job that requires him to relocate abroad frequently, so this move to Portugal is temporary and we will have to move back to a different country within 3 years.

However, we would like to come back to Portugal.


When we do, we would like to know if we have to go through the process we went through for this migration again from the beginning (D7 this time), or if it is possible to apply for a D6 visa because our child is a Portuguese citizen.


I have looked on the internet and only found the procedure for parents and I am having trouble with this.

Can you please tell me how to bring a foreign parent to Portugal with a Portuguese citizen child?

roz66

Hi,


This sounds like a complex topic. Perhaps getting legal immigration advice ftom a Portugeuse lawyer would be best as it seems you will be making dome serious decisions based on the response


Best wishes

Roz

Tamiii

@roz66

Hello Roz,

Thank you for your replying!

We are thinking to talk to lawyer, but we will be back to Portugal after maybe 8-10 years later.

so i was wondering its too early to hire lawyer…

if someone tell me about that would be really nice!!

JohnnyPT

@Tamiii,


Your post mixes up a number of concepts. You have already been told in other thread that in order to apply for citizenship, you have to be a legal resident in Portugal for at least 5 consecutive years, and you have to take a Portuguese language test and be successful.


Please don't use your future child for (selfish) citizenship purposes that don't work!


The D6 visa is a possibility for your residence permit, when your future child is 18 years old and applies for this visa for his/her (?) parents.

Tamiii

@JohnnyPT

As I mentioned in another thread, we are not considering getting nationality (for my husband and I).

When I wrote to you about obtaining citizenship for our children, I asked you about our future visas as well (the question I am asking in this thread), and you mistakenly thought that we parents were also trying to obtain citizenship.

And I thought that that other thread should only talk about citizenship. That's why I started a new thread.


I did not know that the D6 visa is something you can apply for when your child turns 18.

We are considering the option of living in Portugal for our child's future and not for us parents.


In any case, we found out that even if we let our child have Portuguese citizenship, we would still need to take the same steps as this migration to come back to Portugal again as a family.

Thank you very much.

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