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Brisav Sends the RECAPE for Porto-Oiã High-Speed Rail Sections 4 and 5 Out to Public Consultation From 8 June — 15 Working Days on the Participa Portal Test the Gaia Station Move to Vilar do Paraíso and the Twin-Bridge Douro Crossing

Brisav Sends the RECAPE for Porto-Oiã High-Speed Rail Sections 4 and 5 Out to Public Consultation From 8 June — 15 Working Days on the Participa Portal Test the Gaia Station Move to Vilar do Paraíso and the Twin-Bridge Douro Crossing

Brisav opens public consultation on the Porto-Oiã high-speed rail subsections 4 and 5 via the Participa portal on 8 June, with 15 working days to test APA's December 2025 rejection over the Gaia station relocation to Vilar do Paraíso and the twin-bridge Douro crossing.
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Registering on the Portuguese Electoral Roll as a Foreign Resident in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Recenseamento Eleitoral, the Three-Tier Reciprocity Map, the Junta de Freguesia Procedure and Which Elections You Can Actually Vote In

Registering on the Portuguese Electoral Roll as a Foreign Resident in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Recenseamento Eleitoral, the Three-Tier Reciprocity Map, the Junta de Freguesia Procedure and Which Elections You Can Actually Vote In

EU citizens vote in Portuguese municipal and European Parliament elections from day one of residence; Brazilians and Cape Verdeans vote in municipal after two years; ten Tier-3 reciprocity states vote in municipal after three years. The Junta de Freguesia is the front door.
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Ordem dos Advogados Reopens Reciprocity Talks with Brazil's OAB After 2023 Termination — 5 June Lisbon Meeting Frames a Return Path for the 4,039 Brazilian Lawyers Already Practicing in Portugal

Ordem dos Advogados Reopens Reciprocity Talks with Brazil's OAB After 2023 Termination — 5 June Lisbon Meeting Frames a Return Path for the 4,039 Brazilian Lawyers Already Practicing in Portugal

The OAP and OAB met in Lisbon on Thursday 5 June 2026 to negotiate the resumption of the bilateral reciprocity instrument that Portugal terminated in 2023 — 4,039 Brazilian lawyers already practise in Portugal under pre-rupture inscriptions, 13% of the active 32,000-strong bar.
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Golden sandstone boulders on a sandy Algarve beach with turquoise Atlantic waves

Algarve Spends €20 Million Replenishing Sand at Loulé and Portimão Beaches Ahead of the 2026 Bathing Season — Quarteira-Garrão Empreitada Pumps 1.4 Million m³ Across 6.6 km for €14.9M with a 37-Metre Average Widening

APA wrapped roughly €20 million of artificial sand replenishment across the Algarve before the 2026 bathing season — €14.9M and 1.4 million m³ of dredged sand at Quarteira-Garrão in Loulé, plus a €1.5M Vau-Três Castelos redistribution in Portimão.
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Filing the IRS Annual Income-Tax Return in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the 1 April–30 June Window, the Modelo 3 Anexos Stack, the Portal das Finanças Pre-Filled Declaration and the Reembolso Pipeline

Filing the IRS Annual Income-Tax Return in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the 1 April–30 June Window, the Modelo 3 Anexos Stack, the Portal das Finanças Pre-Filled Declaration and the Reembolso Pipeline

The IRS (Imposto sobre o Rendimento das Pessoas Singulares, Personal Income Tax) annual return — Modelo 3 — covers the calendar-year 2025 income of every resident taxpayer (and certain non-resident taxpayers with Portuguese-source income) and must...
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