New locations for SEF appointments

Following the information we at EDGE received recently directly from the Portuguese Government, the Immigration Services - SEF -  have just released the regional offices that will be accepting residency and renewal applications regardless of the location of the investment.

The new locations released today are the following:

- Evora; 

- Santarem  

- Porto 

- Vila Real 

- Viana do Castelo 

- Figueira da Foz 

- Coimbra 

- Guarda 

- Viseu 

- Faro  

- Tavira

- Portimao

This measure has been implemented in order to improve the efficiency of the services and the time frames for the submission of applications, which had been experiencing difficulties in recent times. Prior to this measure, it was mandatory that the submission of residency and renewal applications took place in the SEF office of the location of the investment.

The Government has also announced that it has been studying and implementing new measures to improve the overall efficiency of the programme.  One of these measures is the set up of an electronic payment system, which will facilitate and expedite dramatically the system for payment of the administrative fees and consequently reduce the time for the issuing of the residency cards.

We at EDGE were selected to be part of the trial period and we are proud to be have been able to contribute to this new system that has now been formally been made available to anyone in the Golden Visa programme.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions on the above.