🇵🇹Portugal immigration routes

Every route we track for Portugal, with the official source behind each one.

9

routes tracked

1

need no employer sponsor

4

map to permanent residence

Routes

• Cartão Azul UE

  Portugal's Cartão Azul UE is the residence title enabling a third-country national to reside and carry out highly-qualified activity in national territory, under Articles 121.º-A et seq.

  • Sponsorship not yet read
  • Leads to permanent residence

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• Family reunification residence visa (visto de reagrupamento familiar)

  Portugal's family reunification visa is unusual in the order it demands, and getting that order wrong is the commonest way a case is lost.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Portugal Golden Visa (residence by investment)

  Residence-by-investment route; real-estate and capital-transfer pathways were closed in October 2023, but fund-investment and other options remain.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Residence Visa for Independent Work Activity or Migrant Entrepreneurs (D2)

  Portugal's D2 national residence visa covers independent work activity or migrant entrepreneurs, one of the purpose-specific tracks listed under the country's residency-visa regime alongside subordinate work, remote work and highly-qualified activity.

  • Sponsorship not yet read
  • About 3 months

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• Residence Visa for Retirees, Religious Persons and People Living on Own Income (D7)

  Portugal's D7 residence visa — commonly called the retirement or passive-income visa — is available to third-country nationals who are not EU, EEA or Swiss citizens and wish to retire in Portugal, live off their own income, or perform religious functions or live in a religious community.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Residence Visa for the Exercise of Professional Activity Provided Remotely (D8 — Digital Nomad)

  The D8 is Portugal's national residence visa for the exercise of a professional activity provided remotely — the "digital nomad" route — sitting alongside subordinate work, independent work and highly-qualified-activity tracks in the country's residency-visa regime.

  • Sponsorship not yet read
  • Leads to permanent residence

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• Skilled Job Seeker Visa (Article 57-A of the Foreigners' Law)

  Portugal's Skilled Job Seeker Visa is a national residence visa created to let holders of specialised technical skills enter and remain in Portuguese territory to look for work, authorising them to carry out highly qualified professional activity until the visa expires or a residence permit is granted.

  • No employer sponsor needed
  • Leads to permanent residence

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• StartUP Visa (IAPMEI-certified incubator founder route)

  Portugal's StartUP Visa is a residence-visa programme run by IAPMEI, the Portuguese Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation, under Legislative (Normative) Order nr.

  • Sponsorship not yet read
  • Leads to permanent residence

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• Tech Visa (D3 — IAPMEI-certified employer route)

  Portugal's Tech Visa is an accreditation programme, run by IAPMEI under Inter-ministerial Ordinance (Portaria) 328/2018 of 19 December as amended by Portaria 59-A/2022 of 28 January, that gives Portuguese companies a fast track to hire and retain highly qualified non-Schengen professionals.

  • Sponsorship not yet read
  • About 2 months

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