Portugal’s residency by investment program remains Europe’s reference: a path to residence, and in time citizenship, in exchange for a qualifying investment, with minimal stay requirements. Demand has never been higher. Portugal issued a record 4,987 golden visas in 2024, up 72 percent on the year before.
Since late 2023 real estate no longer qualifies; the route runs through regulated investment funds and a small set of alternatives. We have favored the fund route since 2018: transparent pricing, regulatory supervision, no tenants, no surprises. We conduct the legal due diligence on fund documentation, coordinate subscription, and file your application with a complete, deadline-tracked dossier.
Authorities are working through a well-publicized backlog, and Portugal’s 2026 nationality law extended citizenship timelines for new applicants to seven or ten years depending on nationality, while applications already pending kept the old rules. We were part of that fight: Liberty commissioned the constitutional opinion of Professor Jorge Miranda and filed the investors’ amicus curiae brief at the Constitutional Court. We will tell you exactly where the law stands the day you instruct us, and what it means for your plan.