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Explore processing trends and patterns, or browse all 1702 community reports with their original sources.
Explore processing trends and patterns, or browse all 1702 community reports with their original sources.
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Community reports
With timing data
AIMA offices
Data sources
How you submit affects how long you wait.
Range: 3–470 days · 205 reports
Range: 2–1460 days · 1257 reports
What the data tells us about processing times.
Online Renewals
57 days
Fastest renewal channel
16 reports
In-Person Renewals
~4 months
Office-based renewal processing
60 reports
Initial Applications
48 days
First-time residence cards
185 reports
Approval to Card
23 days
After approval, waiting for physical card
121 reports
Office Variation
13–185 days
Median varies across 26 offices
132 reports
Post-July 2024
~2 months
vs ~90 days before July (new AIMA regime)
136 reports
Processing times for each Portugal residence permit category.
14–65 day range · 35 reports
14–60 day range · 32 reports
46–205 day range · 30 reports
14–95 day range · 26 reports
38–101 day range · 23 reports
21–68 day range · 16 reports
12–110 day range · 7 reports
48–76 day range · 4 reports
Side-by-side processing time comparisons.
Online Portal
21days median
FasterIn-Person
60days median
Initial Application
48days median
FasterRenewal
64days median
D7 Passive Income
19days median
FasterD8 Digital Nomad
75days median
Golden Visa
114days median
D8 Digital Nomad
75days median
Faster