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Explore processing trends and patterns, or browse all 1582 community reports with their original sources.
Explore processing trends and patterns, or browse all 1582 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 · 179 reports
Range: 2–1460 days · 1186 reports
What the data tells us about processing times.
Online Renewals
60 days
Fastest renewal channel
15 reports
In-Person Renewals
~4 months
Office-based renewal processing
60 reports
Initial Applications
47 days
First-time residence cards
179 reports
Approval to Card
23 days
After approval, waiting for physical card
114 reports
Office Variation
13–185 days
Median varies across 26 offices
128 reports
Post-July 2024
~3 months
vs ~90 days before July (new AIMA regime)
129 reports
Processing times for each Portugal residence permit category.
13–59 day range · 34 reports
14–60 day range · 30 reports
45–190 day range · 29 reports
14–96 day range · 26 reports
34–100 day range · 22 reports
36–78 day range · 14 reports
12–110 day range · 7 reports
48–76 day range · 4 reports
Side-by-side processing time comparisons.
Online Portal
20days median
FasterIn-Person
60days median
Initial Application
47days median
FasterRenewal
64days median
D7 Passive Income
19days median
FasterD8 Digital Nomad
68days median
Golden Visa
107days median
D8 Digital Nomad
68days median
Faster