Tek yönlü bir ABD dışında olmak. expat in Portugal is to apply for your Portekizli D7 ikamet vizesi (also known as the Portekiz Schengen Residence Visa). o izni verildiğinde, Eğer onay verilecek 4 ay. ikamet ettiğiniz ABD kenti Portekizli Büyükelçiliği giderken vize çıkartması pasaport almak için, Sizinle çalışmayı kişi Portekiz daki geldikten sonra o açıklayacağız, yapabileceğin en kısa zamanda, O vize uzatmak için bir Portekiz D7 Residency Vize Randevu planlamak gerekiyor. Bu, yerel SEF ofiste ya da telefon aracılığıyla fiziksel olarak yapılabilir. Portekiz yurtdışında yaşayanlar için oldukça popüler hale geliyor beri, Bazı randevular oldukça uzak dışarı. Örneğin, Nisan geldi 2016, ve bizim randevu Aralık sonu için kuruldu. You are automatically “extended” until the date of your appointment, but just keep in mind that you’re only allowed a certain number of exits out of Portugal. Here’s how our first D7 Residency visa appointment went.
What to Expect at Your 1st Portuguese D7 Residency Visa Appointment
Biz de SEF ofiste geldi 11 ben, Bizim randevu bir saat önce. Biz Portekiz en hükümet ofislerinde hatları uzun olduğunu öğrendim, bu yüzden biz güvenli olma elden bırakmayız düşündüm. ancak, Zaman geldi neredeyse hiçbir satır yoktu. Biz erken çünkü bu oldu varsayılır ve bu çünkü belirlenmiş randevu saat oldu.
Biz resepsiyona kadar yürüdü, bizler Portekiz Schengen Residence Vize uzatma için de bulunduğunu anlattı. Kadın Masası adımı sordu, birthday and nationality; pulled a number and told us to go sit in the waiting area. O da üç kişinin göreceği ve ilk gördükten sonra bırakmamaya belirtti.
Ne Kadar senin Portekizli D7 Residency Vize Atama bekleyin olduğu
Birinci şahıs
Bu oldukça hızlı beklemek ve biz hevesli oldu. Bize görülecek için toplam bekleme hakkındaydı 15 dakika. biz masada geldi, she asked for the following documents:
- ABD Pasaport
- Finansal Tablolar
- İkamet belgesi
- NIF
Bunlar, Portekizli D7 Residency Vize Atama getirmek için gereken belgelerdir. Biz bütün belgelerin kopyalarını getirmişti ama gerek yoktu. Kişi masada her belgeyi aldı ve taranan. O biz ona verdi her belgeyi taranır ve bize geri verdi. Sonra, she explained a few things we’d need for the next appointment which was set for a year from the same date (I’ll discuss those at the end of the blog post). Daha sonra bir dizi bizim bilet bize geri verdi ve iki kişiyi daha görmek beklemek zorunda olduklarını ve hızlı bir öğle yemeği için dışarı gizlice anlattı, ama çok uzun almamak. Biz bunu riski karar verdi ve beklemeye kaldı.
İkinci kişi
Big mistake not going to grab a quick sandwich. Bu uzun bir zaman aldı. Yaklaşık oldu 2 saatler. Ben birçok kişi yemeğe başlı çünkü öyleydi şüpheli, bu nedenle bu sürecini biraz yavaşladı. Nihayet geri çağrıldığında, bir kez daha bizim belgeler istendi. Bu yeniden tarandı. Bu kişinin belgelerle memnun edildi kez, o ben bir makinenin önünde durup istedi. Onlar dijital parmak izi aldı, Bir dijital imza, ve dijital bir resim. Geri numarası ile bilet verilecektir ve hazineye beklemek söylendi.
Üçüncü kişi
Bu seferki de oldukça uzun bir zaman aldı. Ben hazine pencereye yürüdü, o benim isim ve doğum günü için istedi. Ben ona ve bana randevu maliyetini anlattı. Onlar kredi kartı almayın, böylece nakit getirmek gerekir. What is the cost of the first Portuguese D7 Residency Visa extension? The total price came to €159.70, here it is broken down by fees:
- 70.30 ikamet geçici başlık için
- 8.30 Evinize ikamet kalıcı başlığı nakliye
- 81.10 ikamet kalıcı başlık için
Zamanla biz de öyleydi ödemişti 3 pm. Biz toplam geçirmişti 4 saat var ve güzel yama açtık. Bizim için şanslı randevu Mahallemizde haklıydı, yeni caddeler – so we just headed home and celebrated at night.
Sizin 2 Portekiz D7 Residency Vize Atama için ne bekleyebilirsiniz
We were told at our first meeting that proof of finances needed to be from a Portuguese banking institution and that our US bank records would not be accepted. Ayrıca biz biz Portekiz'de aslında yaşayan olduklarını kanıtlamak için bizim nifs ile makbuzları getiripincelemem lazım alımlarında ve bizim NIF kullanmaya başlamak gerekir söylendi. son olarak, Mart ayında vergilerini söylendi. I have just written up our experience at our second Portuguese D7 Residency Visa Extension appointment. I suggest that before you head to any of your Portugal Schengen Residence Visa appointment that you call the SEF to make sure no requirements have changed.
Portekiz ortamına geçişle ilgili başka sorularınız varsa, Yorumda yaz. We love it here and think you will too!
How many exits are you allowed ?
It is different person by person. We were given 2 exits out of Portugal during the time that we were waiting for the extension. Once you receive it, Portugal expects you to spend most of your time here. We were not told a specific unit of time. Elbette, you can travel – but when you go to your second appointment, they expect you to bring receipts with your NIF to prove that you’ve been in the country the majority of the time,
Thank you for all the detail!
I have a question about financial documents; which ones did they want? I have a translated official copy of my social security income, a summary of my local Portuguese bank account and my US savings/investments. Which of these are they expecting? Or, just copies of what I submitted last year.
Ayrıca, do I need to bring copies of my expenses with a NIF to the first appointment or only a year out?
Cheers, Diane
Hi Diane,
We brought in our US bank statements & our investments. Didn’t bring our Portuguese bank account info, but I can’t imagine it would hurt to bring that. I would think that as long as you bring proof that you have enough money to live here comfortably you will be ok.
At this meeting, they did not ask us for any receipts for expenses, but they did say they want them at the second appointment as proof that we were in Portugal for the majority of the time.
Hope this helps.
Did you need to bring updated financial statements or the original from your application? With such a gap between obtaining the 4-month visa and the appointment I’m not sure what to bring. Teşekkürler. Mine is August 13th.
Hi Sharon,
We brought updated financial statements, not the originals. They are more interested in seeing that you still have enough money to support yourself.
The SEF appointment was very easy and the people were nice.
Good luck on your appointment and drop by if you have any other q’s 🙂
How long it took for them to send you your residence card?
You can either go back to the SEF office to pick it up, or you can pay to have it mailed to your house. It took about two weeks for me to receive my new Portuguese residency card.
Hi Blanca,
Quick question regarding applying for a NIF…I am living in Portugal (yay) with my boyfriend and I read that in order for me to apply for an NIF within Portugal, I need to bring my passport and show proof of address (such as a utility bill) but I don’t have any proof that I am currently living with my boyfriend. Do you know if there’s any way I can get around this or should I just try to go and apply for the card without the proof? I can’t get a phone contract without an NIF so it becomes really tricky…
I believe you can get a NIF as a “non-resident”, which you will be able to use to get your phone contract. When you go to Financas, they will ask you for proof of your non-resident address and if I am not mistaken, they will accept a bank statement. I would suggest that you check this info at your closest AT – Financas office, since I’m not 100% sure on this. Ayrıca, if you are trying to establish residency, then you will probably need to get a resident’s NIF anyway.
Thank you very much for this blog.
Planning for my SEF visit to extend the 4-month visa
Confused though because have just heard that you supposedly need to have BOTH an NIF number and an NEF number for the visa extension meeting.
Also heard from same source that for the NEF number – it’s something which supposedly takes a month or more to get.
Is that even a real thing the NEF number? Haven’t found anything about it, but also haven’t found too much online about what to bring to the SEF visa extension meeting period.
And unsure if source who’s telling all this is legit or whether, because they’re a relocation service – it’s just an attempt to upsell me on their products/consulting
Any idea?
Hi Michael,
I’ve never heard of a NEF. Not sure where the source was, but maybe give your local consulate/embassy a call to find out just to be sure since things change so fast, but this is the first I have ever heard of that. LMK what they say 🙂
Hi Blanca,
Johanna again 🙂 I had another quick question for you – for the financial statements from banks, kredi kartları, retirement, vb. did you need to bring 6 months worth of documents – like what was required in the US or just your current financial statements for each account? My meeting is next week and I want to make sure I’m prepared – I’ve tried calling the SEF office several times and there’s never any answer. I’m in the Algarve, not Lisbon, so that might make a difference. Thanks!
Eek…I don’t recall exactly how many months worth we brought, but we brought plenty. I’ll as Antonio if he remembers.
Hi Blanca,
Did Antonio remember? Just to be safe, I think I’ll take 6 months worth of records. I bought a printer in Portugal so I can bring as many documents as necessary! Thanks and happy holidays!
I was asked for 6-months worth. I was also told by a friend they questioned her why her monies weren’t in a Portuguese account. She explained it wasn’t allowed to “rollover” from her USA retirement to Portugal till she was 59 1/2 yaşında. The interviewer “accepted” that explanation but suggest “next year” to move monies to Portugal. Different interviewers will focus on different aspects of your assimilation to Portuguese life. One of the big ones is the dollars you bring.
Hi there.. thanks a million for this amazing article.
I was just wondering that if we are on D-7 visa in Portugal and got Trp then can i work or open any business in Portugal?
Would love to hear from u soon.
Thanks once again.
I don’t believe you are allowed to work with the Temp Resident Permit or even D7. You would need a Work Visa. If you have a potential employer s/he maybe able to help with that.
Thanks for creating this awesome blog António and Blanca. I was wondering what is meant by making purchases with NIF. I was under the impression that NIF is needed to open accounts (e.g bank, Internet, phone…etc). Do you also need NiF to make purchases like groceries. Ayrıca, when they ask for receipts, do they want purchases made through your bank account, or can credit card suffice. I am a bit weary using my bank account, I am also in the US. I would rather setup a credit card with low limit.
Teşekkürler.
Hi George,
Glad you like the blog. Make sure you share with others who are on your path to moving to Lisbon.
Great question. Whenever you purchase something at a store, for example the supermarket, furniture store, and even the pharmacy, you will be asked if you want the purchase to be logged with your “contribuinte”, this is your tax ID (or your NIF – the same number that you use to open those accounts you mentioned). You don’t “need” to include your NIF on purchases, but you can. At the end of the year, you will get money back on taxes (which can come in handy if you have a tax liability). It also helps to prove that you are spending the majority of your time living in Portugal (so that the government of Portugal can see that you are getting your Portuguese residency to reside here in Portugal – and not to gain entry into the EU).
For receipts of things you purchase, you can use the receipts from the store regardless of them being cash or credit card transactions. When you give the cashier your NIF (or contribuinte) it will be printed on the receipt as well.
Hope this helps. And keep us updated as you get closer to moving here 🙂
Blanca
Hello 🙂
First of all your blog is super amazing and really helpful.
I was able to get a D7 Visa and my SEF appointment in Evora in about 1 month, so i got 2 questions if you can help me out please.
1- I am renting a room me and my husband so there is no rental agreement but we were able to get a declaration from Junta that we live in this adress, do you think this would be enough ?
2- How can i request to collect my residence card by myself and not to be ailed to me ? and how they will inform me that it’s ready for collection ( For example: by sms or email ? )
Things very very much here depending on who takes care of you. I would not chance it and I would bring in a solid lease – it will just make things much easier on you.
When I went in for the first appointment, I was given an option to pick up or have it mailed to me. They told me it would be ready in about a week (if I remember correctly). So you should not have a problem here.
Definitely update us on how things go. We had our first appointment in Lisbon, so things may be slightly different in Evora. I’d love to hear what your experience for the first D& appointment is like there.
So I had my appointment in SEF Evora last week, it went well thnx God.
I went inside it’s small place with a dozen chairs , 2 desks with 2 ladies sitting there ( checking/scanning documents, making fingerprints and photos on the machine ).
One guy came out from a room with a sign of ( no entry allowed ), he started calling out names out of a list, gladly my name was fourth so he checked the visa and asked me to wait to be called by one of the ladies.
i was called after maybe 30 mins or so , i gave her all the documents and the other lady called in my husband so he gave her all his documents as well, everything went smooth and they did accept the Junta Declaration without a rental agreement.
We did the fingerprints, took the photo and asked to collect the card from the office as we will be out for a business trip so she told us it will cost more to collect it personally ( almost 5 euros extra ) and to come after 3 – 4 weeks to collect the card or better call ” nearly impossible to get an answer lol ” or send an email first before going to make sure it’s ready.
So glad to hear everything went well for you, Sara! That’s fantastic.