Golden Visa

The President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, has written a letter to the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa calling for a stay of termination for the [...]

The Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors (APPII) says that the Government’s decision to end Golden Visas is not legally valid and will likely cause a wave of lawsuits. [...]

Portugal’s Golden Visa will now only be granted to overseas entrepreneurs who invest by setting up a business in the country. It will be the only exception after the Government announced in [...]

The Portuguese Association of Venture Capital (APCRI) has slammed the ‘blind termination” of the country’s Golden Visa programme. It says that Portugal is a country that needs to attract a lot of [...]

The Canadian developer Mercan says the government’s decision to end the Golden Visa programme threatens €425 million of investment. The company has 27 hotel projects in Portugal, and believes [...]

The Portuguese Government has made it clear this week that any applications for Golden Visas submitted after March 16 have no guarantee that they will be considered, and that when the law comes [...]

An avalanche of confusion has been created by the Government’s decision to “freeze” all Golden Visa applications filed after February 16 – the day it announced a controversial Housing [...]

All applications for Portugal’s Golden Visa from 16 February this year are to be frozen and any new applications will not be accepted. The decision was taken to avoid a sudden rush to get [...]

The President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque expressed the hope that the end of the Portugal Golden Visa programme should be done in the smoothest way possible and in [...]

Investment in Portugal’s Golden Visa scheme stood at €65.6 million in November, an increase of 40% like-for-like on 2021. Nevertheless, in a classic case of ‘cutting off its nose to spite [...]