Portugal Immigration department inspectors which are responsible to provide Investors Visa ( Golden Visa ) claimed today they are running with too little staff and can not cope with the amount of demand from this program.  The Inspectors Union launched a communication where they say the system is fragile because of lack of training to inspectors not allowing them to be able to control well the rules and details of the investment. This week Internal Affairs Ministry announced that the internal procedures inside Immigration Department will be modified to ensure the procedures are performed with best practices avoiding mistakes or delays as such as we have been experiencing the last months.

Inspectors Union refers to all this problem as lack of staff and lack of training with a natural consequence of extra work and overload per each inspector.  The conclusions of the last audit to Immigration Department refers to disorganization and lack of clear rules and procedures to process all this applications.

It is already known that the new manual of procedures should be in place within 30 days and after an initial phase of training improvements should start to be noticed. At this current moment they apology for the delay they have been creating in so many applications and expect this issues to be resolved for the near future.

For all our investors which are having their applications in process, please note that quick resolutions are expected soon.