The Portuguese Immigration Services (SEF) have released the statistics of the Golden Visa programme up to the end of 2016. These latest numbers show that the total investment brought by the programme was over 2.5 bn Euro, which is a very relevant amount for Portugal.
According to these statistics, there were a total of 4,202 investors and 6,637 family members approved up to the end of 2016, with the vast majority of investors choosing property as their qualifying investment.
These numbers also show and confirm the significant improvement of the programme in comparison with the difficult year of 2015 as the number of approved investors has doubled from the previous year.
The Golden Visa programme is still the most attractive in Europe and clearly one of the best investor residency programmes in the world.
