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 lot of friction. One of the most surprising friction points is, well, me. I’m a pretty worldly person, and I wouldn’t have considered myself particularly…
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Moving to Lisbon: The First Week
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 it would be, and I’ve been though some shit. I had what I assume must have been a full on panic attack yesterday that was…
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…
First Few Days in Lisbon
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 lawyer right before our appointment so hopefully all should run smoothly. The exit was a little rockier than I’d have liked, as my sister came…
SEF Reschedule: No Joy
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 didn’t want to have to pay for two different translators for us – but accidentally scheduled the appointments for the same day we land in…
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. đŹđ (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…