Citizenship - Portugal, Golden Visa, Investment

UPDATE: Now Accepted – OLD Alert: Open Investors process without documents is no longer accepted at Immigration Department

Update: We are now able to submit your biometric data at your first trip without any documentation ready. Please disregard the communication bellow.

We have been receiving investors in Portugal within the past 2 years that are coming without the full set of documents to present to Immigration Department. Due to the changes on internal procedures inside Immigration Department for the following period of time all Investors which decide to travel to Portugal to submit their finger prints and their biometric data need to have their documentation required.

Due to this changes, we are now requesting all Investors to collect their Police Clearance Report duly stamped by Portugal Embassy of their document issuing country before traveling to Portugal. In case you are bringing your family please also collect their Police Clearance Report, Marriage Certificate or Birth Certificate in order to be able to start the process (all documents need to be duly stamped at Portugal Embassy).

Since the demand of the program is increasing quickly it is now requested that Investors advise their travel intentions 4 weeks before their traveling date in order to assure a visit to Immigration Department. In case you are planing to fly in a much shorter period than the one announced here, please contact us in order to identify the risks and possible solutions.

For those who intent to travel without the documents, please be aware that after your investment is completed and your process is been approved you will need to travel to Portugal to submit your biometric data in order to be able to receive your residence permit card.

The Golden Visa Immigration procedures are being revised, for the time being those are the current rules, once the system has been updated we will inform you.

Police Clearance Golden Visa - Investors Visa Portugal

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Citizenship - Portugal, Golden Visa, Investment, Real Estate - Portugal

Golden Visa Numbers 2014 – Stats for Investor Visa

Investor Visa 2014 in Review

Its easy to make a simple and easy short evaluation of what was the Investor Visa Program during 2014. At this moment all institutions are very happy with the course of this program and Investors are welcome to continue to boost Portuguese economy to leverage the capacity of the Government to revitalize our beautiful country.

The Published Numbers are:

2014 – 1526 Investors Approved

2013 – 424 Investors Approved

2012 – 2 Investors Approved

Number of Family Members Approved

2014 – 2395 Family Members

2013 – 494 Family Members

The Total Investment Generated by this Program:

By Acquiring Real Estate:

1.110.702.081,12 Euro (1.110 million euro)

By Capital Transfer:

117.271.745,77 Euro (117 million euro)

The Total Number of Investors per Type of Investment:

1916 Investors choose Real Estate Option  – 95%

103 Investors choose Capital Option – 5%

3 Investors choose to create over 10 Jobs – 0%

Main Nationalities

China: 81%

Brazil: 3%

Russia: 3%

South Africa: 2%

Lebanon: 2%

After seeing the results it is easy to understand that 95% of the Investors choose to purchase Real Estate and elected this option as their preferred, in average they added 1,18 persons to their program which is less than 2 persons per investor and in 1 years the demand for this Golden Visa Program has increased over 350% compared to previous year. The expectation that is 2015 will beat the record of applicants and will reach at least 2000 application successfully approved within one year. The origin of the Investors is clearly dominated by China.

Numbers Overview 2014 Golden Visa Investors Program Portugal

 

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