🇵🇹 Portugal: sources & references

• Portugal MNE visa portal (vistos.mne.gov.pt)
• Minimum income
• Family rules
• Health insurance

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2026-10-20

EUR 3,680/mo = 4x the 2026 minimum wage; well corroborated but not read on an official page. UPCOMING, 2026-10-20: the Government's 2027 State Budget proposal (submitted 2026-10-08, reported by dnoticias.pt, abola.pt, postal.pt) sets the 2027 minimum wage at EUR 970 from 2027-01-01. If the decree-law is published as announced, 4x gives EUR 3,880/mo (savings benchmark ~EUR 11,640) - NOT yet in force, the 2026 figure stays the published value until the decree appears in Diario da Republica. A separate ~EUR 3,480 figure circulates as a lower threshold - confirm with AIMA. Also expected: 12x min wage in savings (~EUR 11,040). Family uplift: +50% for a spouse, +30% per dependent child. Re-checked 2026-07-17, unchanged. RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-24: unchanged, reconfirmed across current 2026 guide sites.

• Portugal MNE visa fee schedule (emolumentos)
• Application fees

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2026-09-24

RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-24: no resolution to the three-way conflict flagged 2026-09-21 (GrowIN's ~EUR 440 D8-renewal claim vs the ~EUR 247.30 general-concession figure vs this fiche's ~EUR 170-186 D8-specific estimate) - a fresh sweep (incl. a newly-located Portugal News piece dated 2026-03-04) again attributes ~EUR 440 only to the general "standard temporary permit" category and ~EUR 160-170 to D8 specifically, consistent with, not resolving, the open conflict; stays flagged pending direct AIMA page access. EUR 110 is the National Visa (Visto Nacional) administrative processing fee charged by the consulate for the D8 application - non-refundable if refused, and this is the figure well and consistently corroborated (incl. a search-engine snippet of the official vistos.mne.gov.pt/emolumentos page, which itself still 403s on direct fetch). It is NOT the total cost: after arrival, AIMA charges a separate residence-card (Titulo de Residencia) issuance fee, reported at roughly EUR 170 following a March-2026 fee-table revision, making total government fees commonly cited around EUR 320-400 - that AIMA figure is only attested by secondary sources, so it is deliberately left out of this single Money value rather than guessed. RE-CHECKED 2026-07-25: Portuguese press (Publico/SAPO, not independently fetchable) reports AIMA's March-2026 fee-table update may have raised the relevant residence-permit lines to roughly EUR 133 + EUR 307.20 (~EUR 440 total) for the general temporary-residence category, well above the EUR 170 figure tracked here - but several D8-specific guides published after March 2026 still cite ~EUR 155-180, so it is unresolved whether the March increase applies to the D8 line item specifically. The EUR 170 estimate stays as the best-attested D8-specific figure pending confirmation; do not treat EUR 440 as sourced for this visa yet. A reduced EUR 45 fee applies to children aged 6-12 and to nationals of a short list of EU-facilitation-agreement countries. RE-CHECKED 2026-07-30: found the first D8-specific guide published clearly after the March-2026 revision to state a concrete residence-card figure - idealista.pt/en (2026-03-31) cites a EUR 185.60 D8 residence-permit fee (plus a EUR 109.40 application fee), close to the pre-revision EUR 170 estimate and well below the EUR 440 general-category figure. Still secondary-sourced (no AIMA official page fetchable), but this is the strongest D8-specific evidence yet that the March revision's higher line items apply to other residence categories, not the D8 - EUR 170 stays the tracked estimate, now with added corroboration. RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-21: a new outlet, GrowIN Portugal, explicitly names D8 among the categories ("work, D7, D8, family reunification and student") subject to the ~EUR 440 figure specifically for RENEWAL (not initial issuance) under Portaria 307/2023 - the most direct claim yet that the higher figure applies to D8, though single-sourced. Simultaneously, a separate, distinct cluster of sources (sociedadecivil.pt, diariodacidadania.com, EntreRios/sapo.pt, all citing AIMA's own statement that March 2026 was an index-linked annual update, not a hike) states the general concession fee as EUR 133 + EUR 114.30 (~EUR 247.30) - a third figure that matches neither GrowIN's EUR 440 nor this fiche's tracked ~EUR 170-186 D8-specific estimate, and the EUR 307.20 vs EUR 114.30 residence-title components don't reconcile with each other either (possibly renewal vs. initial-concession variants of the same line item, unconfirmed). Three mutually inconsistent current sources, none read directly on aima.gov.pt - does not meet the bar to change the published EUR 170-186 D8-specific estimate; flagged as an open three-way conflict for a future pass with direct AIMA access.

• AIMA - Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum
• Visa duration
• Tax regime
• Processing time

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2026-09-24

D8 leads to a renewable residence permit; permanent residence remains a 5-year milestone. Citizenship is different: Portugal's Nationality Law reform (in force since 2026-05-19) raised the residency requirement for citizenship from 5 to 10 years (7 years for EU/CPLP nationals), with the clock now starting from residence-card issuance rather than application date. Re-checked 2026-07-17: the reform survived Constitutional Court preventive review (Acordao 1133/2025) with this timeline intact - the Court struck down four unrelated provisions (criminal-conviction bar, vague fraud clause, loss-of-nationality-as-penalty), not the residency clock. RE-CHECKED 2026-07-30: a citizen petition asking Parliament for transitional protections for people already mid-process under the old 5-year rule was discussed by a parliamentary committee on 2026-06-06 - no legislative change has resulted, still just a discussed petition, not actionable yet; the 10-year (7-year EU/CPLP) timeline stands unchanged. RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-24: unchanged; the implementing-regulation deadline (missed ~2026-08-16/17) remains unmet with no publication found.

• Diario da Republica - Lei n.o 61/2025, de 22 de outubro (family reunification reform)

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2026-09-24

• Diario da Republica - Lei Organica n.o 1/2026, de 18 de maio (Nationality Law reform)

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2026-09-24

• Andersen - Alteracoes ao regime juridico de entrada, permanencia, saida e afastamento de estrangeiros (Lei 61/2025)

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2025-10-23

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2026-09-24

• EU citizens' right to reside & work (free movement)

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2026-06-16

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2026-07-10

• Legal basis: right to move & reside freely

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2004-04-29

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2026-07-10

• Right to work in another EU country

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2026-07-10