#GETTING A PASSPORT PROFESSIONAL#
Apply for a Professional card and present a business proposal to the government simultaneously.So when you obtain a Professional card, you’re gaining work authorization as an entrepreneur, not an employee (which is Option #2). In addition, you will also be expected to prove basic proficiency in Portuguese (A2 language level) if you wish to apply for citizenship.Īfter five years of temporary residency in Portugal, you will be eligible for permanent residency and citizenship. Portugal is by far one of the easiest countries to get citizenship in the EU (without ancestry).īelgium offers a Professional card to applicants who can help grow its economy, either by creating jobs, increasing exports, investing in fixed assets, offering underrepresented services in Belgium or adding economic value in some other way. You cannot be away from Portugal for longer than six months in a row. You must stay in Portugal at least four months a year in total, AND The trade-off is that you need to spend a minimum of four months per year in Portugal to keep your D7 residency permit renewable and to become eligible to apply for citizenship. The application and service fees can be up to eight times lower than those associated with a Golden Visa.
Unlike with the Portuguese Golden Visa program, with the D7 visa, there is no minimum required investment in property. Portugal will also be happy to accept savings or a combination of savings and income. Dependent children under 18 – 30% of the current minimum wage or €191.Spouse – 50% of the current minimum wage or €332.50.Primary applicant – The current minimum wage of €665.The official financial requirements are relatively low and tied to the Portuguese minimum wage (which in 2021 is €665 - about US $799 - a month). The Portuguese authorities prefer seeing long-term, stable, passively derived income (i.e. To obtain residency under the D7 visa, you must prove that you have sufficient recurrent income to sustain yourself in Portugal. After five total years of residency, you can apply for citizenship and a passport, subject to certain conditions. The initial permit is issued for two years and then renewed for another three. The D7 Visa offers foreigners the ability to obtain temporary residency – provided that you have sufficient means to support yourself and any dependent family members while in Portugal. Portugal’s D7 Visa is frequently referred to as the Retirement Visa, Passive Income Visa or Online Worker Visa. It requires becoming a resident of Portugal and, after five years, applying for citizenship. Getting a Portuguese passport is relatively easy. As a Portuguese passport holder, you’ll enjoy the ability to live, work and travel freely in all 27 member-states of the EU (after discounting the UK.) Its passport is first-class, with visa-free access to 159 countries in 2022. That includes the fees handed over to Home Affairs for your application as well as the administrative costs incurred whilst doing the application on your behalf.Portugal is a great country to obtain citizenship. NB: If you are out of the country you will have to fill out the application forms and have photographs taken.Ĭancellation Fees: PLEASE NOTE* if you choose to cancel your application with us, there is a cancellation fee of R375. You will then give your details over to a consultant who enters it electronically on their system. We take you to the front of the queue at Home Affairs, your fingerprints and photographs are taken on the spot. Home Affairs has a new biometric system, meaning no forms to fill out and no photographs to be taken. We shorten the queue for submission and collection as well. Our staff queue on your behalf, ensuring that you are in and out of Home Affairs in a matter of minutes. You will use your fingerprint as proof of identity in order to collect your passport. You need to book an appointment with us where we will take you to Home Affairs for collection. We’ll track your application & inform you once your passport is ready for collection in person.
Why spend hours queueing to renew your South African passport when we can do it for you? We’ll assist with the paperwork, get you to the front of the queue, submit and collect your passport from Home Affairs on your behalf.
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