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Your starting point

Understand the difference between entering Portugal, applying for a visa and holding residence status. Follow current official instructions for your circumstances.

The D7 label is not an eligibility decision. Confirm the currently available route and evidence with the competent post. Use the steps below to organise a decision, not to infer an official approval, a guaranteed price or a universal deadline.

Work through the decision

The D7 Residence Route — a diagram of the key planning steps
Planning diagram. The same steps are described in the text below.
01

Describe the income

Prepare a factual list of the source, continuity and supporting documents for your resources.

02

Use current criteria

Verify applicable conditions and the post's checklist instead of relying on an old income figure online.

03

Check the full sequence

Clarify accommodation evidence, application steps and the procedure expected after arrival before committing funds.

Adapt this to your circumstances

Keep citizenship, current residence, household needs and the location of the home separate in your notes. Ask the responsible authority, institution or qualified professional to confirm any requirement that affects your situation. A checklist used by another household may not apply to yours.

Sources and checks

AIMA — residence procedures — an official starting point for this topic. The relevant page, its scope and effective date must be checked before a consequential decision.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs — consular documentation. Follow the post competent for your current residence.

No market prices, eligibility thresholds or legal deadlines have been invented for this guide. Dates in personal planning tools are suggestions or values you supply.

Make it practical

Open the Document and Deadline Tracker to keep the information you collect with your own assumptions, notes and next actions.

Open Document and Deadline Tracker

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