Portuguese citizenship/ Residence permits renewal

Mohammed,

     Kind of unrelated but if you're not paying into social security you need to make smart investment decisions for when you reach retirement age. There will be no government funds to fall back on when you're no longer working or earning.

The question raised by @bobinportugal22 is very pertinent. Don't expect the Portuguese state to guarantee your livelihood if you don't pay any taxes or contribute to social security. How do you support yourself in this country? Do you speak Portuguese correctly? All these questions will be certainly analysed in a possible application. What's more, the rules on nationality are being tightened more and more, precisely because of abuses like this...

@JohnnyPT I assume (!) that there is a minimum financial support for any penniless Portuguese citizen, completely independent of how much they paid into the system.

@TGCampo,

No, there isn't. There is no guaranteed minimum income. I know it exists in other countries, but it doesn't exist in Portugal. There are countries that have had this experience and have abandoned it, given the degree of abuse by opportunists.

In Portugal, income, especially for retirement, comes from one's own resources or from social security pensions, after contributing a lifetime of work to social security.