Portugal Family reunification visa

As your husband is Portuguese, this is probably the way to proceed:

Residence Card for third-country nationals who are family members of EU/EEA/Switzerland nationals

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.p … 33#5104571

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I don't know if the procedures are different with the new AIMA agency. Perhaps they'll simplify this process in the near future...

@Szefritz

Is your marriage registered in Portugal? If not, you will need to register it before you go to your appointment.

As a Portuguese citizen spouse you will submit art. 15, not family reunification.

If you need more info and guidance send me a private message here.

@JohnnyPT

The procedure is exactly the same. Nothing has changed.

@Nia Queiroz

Yes, we married in HK and registered last year in Portugal.

@JohnnyPT

Thank you for the information.

It seems like, I have to submit document to Portugal consulate in Macau first.

But I emailed to Consulate in Macau 6 months ago and I have no reply so I thought I need to make appointment here with SEF (now AIMA) first... So I am here now...

    @JohnnyPT
The procedure is exactly the same. Nothing has changed.
    -@Nia Queiroz

@Nia,

We don't know if anything will change with the new government in March 2024. But things as they are are not doing well.... it is unacceptable for people to be asked to call a phone number and not be able to do so, or to always be told that there are no slots available for family reunification! I hope that AIMA will solve the pending cases by the first quarter of 2024, as they have announced, and that they will improve and simplify the processes! It's NOT OK as it is ! Thinks MUST change.

@JohnnyPT

The procedures are exactly the same now and will be at least until March 2024.

The issue is not the procedure itself but the time it takes, which I didn't say by any means that it was right or wrong. It is what it is. And of course that is unacceptable!

By how things are rolling and with the thousands of applications coming in every day it will be very hard that things will improve much in the first quarter of 2024.

@JohnnyPT

I hope things change with AIMA as I am separated from my spouse. It is sad.

I have the same problem here with my husband who got his D7 visa approved earlier this month. No slots at all for over a year for Non-EU residents.... sigh

@jingsjingles did you apply with a D6 application? I was about to apply for a D7 visa with my husband & son applying for D6 but obviously I cannot be seperated from them & would rather not apply if the process is seperating families -  especially for a year? i cant understand this!

@Becca0804

I'm supposed to apply for D6 but struggling to get SEF's approval since they haven't released slots for a year.

Based on what I learnt, the perfect way for you to do is that you apply for D7 while your family memebers apply for the Accompanying family member visa which is also a D visa. Remember that you all need to apply at the same time! I wasn't able to apply with my husband at the same time from the same country and that really puts us in a difficult situation.

Good luck!

@jingsjingles aaah thank you for clarifying! we are going to all apply at the same time but it still looks like there are a lot of delays ans uncertainty with appointments in Portugal which isnt filling us with confidence!😣