{"id":2203,"date":"2022-08-26T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/lei-da-imigracao\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:03:25","slug":"lei-da-imigracao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/lei-da-imigracao\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is the purpose of the new amendment to the immigration law?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The new amendment, introduced by Law No. 18\/2022 of August 25, modifies the legal regime governing the entry, stay, exit, and removal of foreign nationals from Portuguese territory.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What are the most significant changes?<\/strong><br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The new law introduces several key updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>CPLP visa simplification:<\/strong>\u00a0Streamlined visa issuance for citizens of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Higher education:<\/strong>\u00a0Simplified residence visas for students admitted to Portuguese institutions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Job\u2011seeking visa:<\/strong>\u00a0Allows entry into and stay in Portugal specifically to look for employment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Digital nomads:<\/strong>\u00a0Temporary\u2011stay and residence visas for people working remotely for entities based abroad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Automatic registration:<\/strong>\u00a0Provisional issuance of Tax ID (NIF), Social Security ID (NISS), and National Health Service user number.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Extended validity:<\/strong>\u00a0Longer validity periods for residence permits, including the EU Blue Card.\u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key provisions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Digital nomads:<\/strong>\u00a0A specific visa regime for remote workers employed by companies headquartered outside Portugal.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CPLP and student visas:<\/strong>\u00a0The requirement for a prior opinion from the Immigration and Borders Service (SEF) has been removed; checks are now carried out directly with the Security Intelligence Service (SIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Job\u2011seeking visa:<\/strong>\u00a0Holders may work as employees until the visa expires or a residence permit is granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ql-heading\">Ana Catarina Dias | <a href=\"mailto:info@rosarioduarte.pt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">info@rosarioduarte.pt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"btn gray\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/gyHAu1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up for our Newsletter<\/a><br> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading ql-heading\">Contact us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/contacts\/\">here<\/a> to book a meeting<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the purpose of the new amendment to the immigration law? The new amendment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosarioduarte.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}