Official Portuguese sources, read every day
The figures you quote change.
Know the day they do.
An income threshold is revised, a fee moves, a consulate changes how it takes appointments — and the figure in your client pack is quietly a year out of date. Three versions of the same income minimum can sit on one agency's website at once. We read the official pages every day and tell you, in English and Portuguese, on the day something you sell against changes.
The subscription
Three things arrive
- The weekly digest, English and Portuguese
- Everything that changed in the week, each item with the official page behind it. The Portuguese is written when the change is found, from the source page — it is the wording your client puts in front of a consulate, not a translation made at send time.
- A same-day alert when it matters
- A threshold, a fee, a required document or a deadline that moves reaches you the same day. Everything else waits for the digest, so an alert always means there is something to do.
- The current figures, product by product
- For each product line you sell: the figure in force, the date it was last verified, and a link to the official page it was read from. Check it before a quote goes out and quote one version of the number instead of three.
- Sources read
- 07:00 · 15:00 Europe/Lisbon
- Digest sent
- Mondays 08:30 Europe/Lisbon
Coverage
What we watch — 31 topics
Grouped the way the work is done: the consular stage, what a new arrival must complete, the permit after arrival, and the law behind them.
- Consular visa11 topics
For example Apostille, legalisation and certified translation of supporting documents · Appointment channels — who takes applications where · Family travelling with the main applicant — consular stage · From issued visa to arrival — what the visa allows and the step into the residence-permit lane
- Residence permit after arrival5 topics
For example Family reunification with a resident — requirements, documents and fees · Naturalisation — route, cost and the pending implementing regulation · Permanent residence permit — requirements, validity and fees · Residence permit renewal — period, documents and fees
- Arrival formalities (NIF, NISS, SNS, address)7 topics
For example Fiscal representation: when it is required, who may serve, and the penalty · Obtaining a health-service user number and registering with a health centre · Obtaining a social-security number (NISS) · Opening a Portuguese bank account without being present in Portugal
- Laws, notices and monitoring7 topics
For example AIMA announcements · Consular network and external service providers · Dec. Reglm. n.º 84/2007 — implementing regulation, version and amendments · Lei n.º 23/2007 — version string and amendment chain
- Adjacent matters (context only)1 topic
For example Tax residency and the IFICI incentive regime — context only
Who it is for
The product lines a change is filed against
Sell one of these and a change that touches it reaches you. The corpus is organised by what an agency sells, not by which department published it.
- Consular residence visa — people living on their own income — sold in the market as the D7
- Consular temporary-stay visa — remote workers — sold in the market as the D8, temporary-stay variant
- Consular residence visa — remote workers — sold in the market as the D8, residence variant
- Portuguese nationality by naturalisation
- Post-arrival administrative enrolment
- Residence permit after arrival — grant, renewal, permanence, family
- Portuguese bank account opened remotely
- Portuguese tax number (NIF) — standalone product
50 official pages, last read 2026-09-15. 2 could not be read that day; every one of them was covered by another source. The last material change we recorded was 2026-09-15. How we verify →
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