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Immigration policy, visa changes, and the expat experience in Portugal.
The Portuguese Parliament, the Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon, a neoclassical facade with columns and the Portuguese flag flying above

PSD and CDS Move to Double the Residency Bar for Non-EU Newcomers to Two Years for the New Single Social Benefit — PS Brands the Amendment an 'Approximation to Chega' as the Far Right Holds Out for Five

Governing partners PSD and CDS have filed amendments raising the minimum legal residency for non-EU/EEA nationals to claim the Prestação Social Única from one year to two. PS calls it an 'approximation to Chega', which still wants five. Carve-outs protect children and the disabled.
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Banco de Portugal's June Boletim Económico Flips Portugal's Demographic-vs-Supply Housing Gap to Surplus for the First Time in 11 Years — 300,000-Unit Decade Deficit, 26,700 Completions and the Immigration Cut Frame the Reset

Banco de Portugal's June Boletim Económico Flips Portugal's Demographic-vs-Supply Housing Gap to Surplus for the First Time in 11 Years — 300,000-Unit Decade Deficit, 26,700 Completions and the Immigration Cut Frame the Reset

The Banco de Portugal (Bank of Portugal, BdP) Boletim Económico — Junho 2026 (June 2026 Economic Bulletin), published Sunday 15 June, carries a thematic study titled Housing in Portugal: determinants of supply and dynamics of prices and rents that...
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