Immigration and Borders Service (SEF-Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras), has beed replaced by several institutions, such as the recently created AIMA. It's now official, SEF was actually abolished on 29 October and all its police and administrative functions will now be carried out by other institutions. Find out what changes!

Further to the announcement last Monday 2nd October 2023 regarding the State Budget Law Proposal for 2024 proposes the end of the (NHR) Non-Habitual Resident regime and foresees a new tax incentive for scientific research and innovation.

In accordance with the residence status in force for the post-transition period (1st January 2021 onwards), all UK nationals who are officially residents in Portugal are asked to exchange their current EU residence documents for new ones that explicitly state that they are under the Withdrawal Agreement.

The Technical specification Sheet, which describes the main technical and functional characteristics of the building was created with the intention of protecting the buyers when buying a house, now this document has its days counted. The Government decided, in Council of Ministers, to end with this document, while approving the creation of the "Building e-book"

The Golden Visa scheme has been an unqualified success and proof of that success is demonstrated by the increasing number of investors seeking to take advantage of this scheme by coming to Portugal.