The process for getting residency in Portugal is: you do a bunch of prep work, you apply for your visa, you come to Portugal, you go to your SEF appointment, you wait, you get your Residence Card. That card means you can come and go at will. It means you can sign up for the…
Category: Visas
Moving to Lisbon: Two Months In
Woof. It’s been a whole-ass two months already. How did that happen? I know some folks have been wondering where our heads are at now, so I wanted to give you a bit of an update. Things are much, much better. Some stuff is still dumb. The toilet seat is still broken, the ceiling still…
SEF Appointment: Done. Sorta.
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 a whole other blog post that we need to write), local resident rates on things like parking and car rentals, and so on. The residency…
SEF Appointment Rescheduled
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, and is their immigration agency, where you apply for your residency card.) Brady’s appointment is for 10AM, mine is at 2:30PM and our animals arrive…