D7 VISA RENEWAL

Do you have a visa or a residence permit issued by SEF/AIMA in August 2023?

Told by whom and how were you told?

Sorry I have a D7 resident permit. I am informed that I should be out of Potugal to my country every six moths which I find absurd. Has anyone experienced this.

If you have a residence permit, you can stay for as long as you like during the period of validity of the residence permit. You are a tax resident in Portugal.

What you're saying here is absurd, it doesn't make any sense.

It is indeed confusing.  There are these two things:

• residence permit, título de residência, which would eventually be credentialed with a plastic wallet card.
• D7 visa, a thing that is pasted into your passport.

If you have a D7 visa from last August, it's expired, so if you leave the country you will have some explaining to do when you come back.

If you were granted a two year residence permit, you must remain in the country a significant amount of the term of the permit - probably more than six months per year, I forget and am too lazy to look it up.  This is probably the absurd thing you thought you heard, just backwards - you must not be out of the country for more than six months per  year.