Rob Evans
English looking for information about Portugal
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Registration: 06 May 2023
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Visa Refusal for Family Members to Visit Me in Portugal by angieeey88
Hello everyone. I encountered an issue with the visa applications for Portugal for my wife and daughter in China. I obtained my residence card at the end of last year (2023) and applied for my wife and daughter's visas at Portugal's visa center in ...
Generally, visitation visas must satisfy some criteria and allay any concerns about illegal stay after visa expiry. They look for evidence that you have an established life in the country of origin and have ties to that country that will likely mean ... Read More
D7 Visa Refusal by Farhan Younis
Deal AllI applied for D7 Visa in November 2021 and got the Approval and after that i am not able to travel for Some reason.And i apply again in May 2022 and this time i got refusal letter from Embassy "Does not prove sufficient financial meansAs i ...
@asnizami786 Most of this stuff is google work. For instance, for the bank account, you can google "open a portuguese bank account remotely". Getting a mortgage is the same, google it, or use a property / estate agent in Portugal who will be able to ... Read More
D7 Visa Refusal by Farhan Younis
Deal AllI applied for D7 Visa in November 2021 and got the Approval and after that i am not able to travel for Some reason.And i apply again in May 2022 and this time i got refusal letter from Embassy "Does not prove sufficient financial meansAs i ...
@asnizami786 We got our NIF via e-residence service. Paid for it because we were not in Portugal at the time and also wanted to have a hassle free experience without queing etc.You should contact a bank in Portugal to open an account. We used ... Read More
Getting NHR before it's too late by Tim_Y
I was planning to move to Lisbon in 15 months, but I now read the NHR is ending in 2024. There doesn't seem to be much information yet, but does anyone know if it's possible to "squeeze in" now? It doesn't seem like it's been passed through ...
It鈥檚 not at all clear that the NHR is going away so don鈥檛 worry too much. Even if it is eventually cancelled, it takes time. I don鈥檛 think there is any way to accelerate the SEF process anyway; Portuguese government bureaucracy is ... Read More
Claiming and keeping NHR while tax resident in two countries by Tim_Y
I was planning on moving to Lisbon with my family in 15 months. We were delaying the move because my wife is heavily pregnant and I ideally wanted to avoid moving everyone until the new-born was a bit older. However, the NHR is a critical part of ...
@JohnnyPT If he鈥檚 earning via passive income such as dividends, it would be zero right? Read More
Goodbye, Golden Visa by donn25
I imagine this will not come as a shock to anyone, but I see in the news this morning that the legislature approved a "Mais Habita莽茫o" act a week ago that puts an end to the Golden Visa program.It also puts a moratorium on new short ...
The reasons given for the cancellation of the NHR and the GV are fairly suspect. Among the reasons given, one is that they caused a massive housing price increase, but in total, only ~27,000 people (est from 2019) have EVER been granted NHR status ... Read More
trouble with lawyer in a real estate transaction by bettinakozlowski
Dear all,We were about to purchase a condo in Porto in two weeks, we signed the promissory, but the vendor told us on the day he received the promissory he sold to someone else. We are now told by the lawyer we owe 60% of the 1,5% of "agreed" ...
This is a really crap situation but I agree with Johnny that you need to get advice from another lawyer.We narrowly avoided having to pay a fee to a mortgage "broker" who was in fact simply gathering details and sending them on to an actual broker ... Read More
trouble with lawyer in a real estate transaction by bettinakozlowski
Dear all,We were about to purchase a condo in Porto in two weeks, we signed the promissory, but the vendor told us on the day he received the promissory he sold to someone else. We are now told by the lawyer we owe 60% of the 1,5% of "agreed" ...
What was the agreement with the lawyer? Do you have the wording? What did the agreement say? A transaction hasn't taken place and drafting a promissary is mostly a copy and paste job. Read More
trouble with lawyer in a real estate transaction by bettinakozlowski
Dear all,We were about to purchase a condo in Porto in two weeks, we signed the promissory, but the vendor told us on the day he received the promissory he sold to someone else. We are now told by the lawyer we owe 60% of the 1,5% of "agreed" ...
Was an estate agent involved in the transaction or were you dealing directly with the seller? Read More
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM IN PORTUGAL? by maxwmitchell1997
My wife has 2 very nice sewing machines and would like to take them with us when we relocate to Portugal. Will they work in Portugal with an electrical adaptor?? Any advice would be appreciated.Thanks,Max & Lana
@maxwmitchell1997 what country are you coming from? Read More
Financing Things
We are moving to Portugal under an NHR visa. Our UK company we control will pay us via dividends and we have UK management in place to oversee the running of the business. One of our cars is under finance that requires it can only be in Europe for ... Read More
Good & bad experiences with real estate agencies/agents by JohnnyPT
Feel free to make your personal inputs here, alerting or giving suggestions to other people who are going at this moment to what you went through when looking for a house in Portugal :)
Thank you all for your replies! We are starting the process and it鈥檚 all a bit new and very different from the UK. It鈥檚 really great to have a community to ask questions and sanity check like this! Much appreciated everyone!! Read More
Good & bad experiences with real estate agencies/agents by JohnnyPT
Feel free to make your personal inputs here, alerting or giving suggestions to other people who are going at this moment to what you went through when looking for a house in Portugal :)
I think a detailed description of the normal steps of house purchase and where money goes and what is normal vs abnormal. For instance, in the UK it is very strange to be asked to pay a reservation fee to take a property off the market, but in ... Read More
Good & bad experiences with real estate agencies/agents by JohnnyPT
Feel free to make your personal inputs here, alerting or giving suggestions to other people who are going at this moment to what you went through when looking for a house in Portugal :)
How do you guys handle the buying / money transfer process?We have had an offer accepted and been given an IBAN number to transfer 鈧�2.500 to take the property off the market.I鈥檓 used to being able to check that the name on account matches ... Read More