This is going to be a little bit of a Christmas-time saga and you'll need a little backstory, so bear with me. Firstly, you should know how apartment numbers normally
We set foot in Portugal around June 1, 2023. So our one year anniversary was June 1, 2024 - a few months ago. We’ve had a lot of stuff going
We've been here a little more than a month now. Things have settled down a little, and it's certainly more calm than the first week, but there is still a
I had meant to write this when it was a bit fresher, but I honestly didn't have it in me. Friends, this past week was hard. Harder than I thought
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
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
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,