Today was our SEF appointment, which will give us a Portuguese residency card. This will, among other things, give us access to the health care system in Portugal (which is
We made it! We're tired as hell, but we're finally in our apartment in Lisbon, with an SEF appointment tomorrow to apply for our residence cards. We'll meet our immigration
We leave to move to Portugal in just a few days now. Obviously, tensions are high and we're raging stress beasts, which is to be expected. One thing I have
If you decide to have professional movers handle your stuff (which as we've mentioned elsewhere is expensive and time consuming, but it *is* an option) in your move to Portugal,
As I mentioned previously, our immigration lawyer helpfully tried to change our SEF appointments to NOT be at the exact same time in two different places, I presume because she
I know this seems like a weird thing to post about, but it’s something I have slowly been making peace with over the past few months since learning that hummingbirds
Our lawyer has rescheduled our SEF appointment to be... the day we land in Lisbon on June 1, 2023 at 8:30AM. 😬😠(SEF is short for Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras,
So, Portugal tends to be really progressive (especially for a Catholic country) - it's one of the reasons why we're moving there - but there was one sticking point that
We leave for our new life in Portugal in one month, and slowly, the gravity of it all is starting to sink in: the people, places and things that we'll
As many of you are already aware, Brady and I are moving to Portugal in about a month. These are both exciting and incredibly nerve-wracking times. While I have lived