AIMA's 2025 report counts 2,685 investment residence permits plus 3,967 for family members. The UK jumped to third and Russia fell to sixth, but the report gives no figure for the capital invested and no split by route.
The Ombudsman's 2025 report counts 15,342 complainants, up 30.1 percent, and 31 percent of them complained about foreign citizens' entry and residence. It lists AIMA failures from a portal that shut out CPLP applicants to an asylum claim pending since 2016.
The parliamentary economy committee hears Pedro Portugal Gaspar on Tuesday over his designation as a board member of the Competition Authority. He has led AIMA since July 2024 on a five-year mandate. The competition seat runs six years and cannot be renewed.
From 15 September, EU nationals and their family members applying for permanent residence through AIMA's renewals portal no longer supply a NIF or a NISS. The agency verifies both automatically. The fifteen-day and three-month statutory deadlines are unchanged.
The free status that gives Brazilian residents the same rights as Portuguese citizens: who qualifies, what it gives and withholds, and how to apply.
The agency says appointments at its shops grew more than 60 percent in the first half of 2026 and complaints fell 35.8 percent. The three percentages are mutually consistent and imply a rise of about 64 percent. None of them says how many appointments were actually held.
The permanent residence permit, the five year clock, the A2 language rule, and how it differs from citizenship and the EU long-term resident permit.
