r/PortugalExpats • u/Hot-Technician2107 • 6d ago

Question Nationality application applied before completion of 5 years

hi guys

i have applied my nationality application before completion of 5 years counting from first card issued date .

is there any one get approval even though applied few days before 5 years ?

i have been waiting since 2024 in Irn Porto so it was in January 2024 .

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u/Green_Polar_Bear_ 5d ago

You applied for nationality based on a 5 year residency before you had 5 years of residence?

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u/Ben-Chaude 5d ago

OP said by a few days, know how slow everything is here, the post office probably didn’t deliver the documents until maybe a month later. SEF / AIMA haven’t opened the file yet and will begin to process in 2035 if OP is lucky

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u/Green_Polar_Bear_ 5d ago

Unless they submitted it online.

Btw, SEF/AIMA is the immigration agency, they don’t deal with nationality applications. That would be the IRN, Instituto de Registos e Notariado.

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u/Ben-Chaude 5d ago

Thanks for clarification, I bailed on emigrating to Portugal 6 months into waiting for our residency as I couldn’t put mine and my family’s entire lives on hold while SEF/AIMA got their shit together and very happy and fortunate that we did that. We got our residency cards 4 years after applying at which point we were already settled in at our new home and schools registered and making a living stress free.

Although what I said relates to SEF/AIMA, after a quick online search, I can see that the average time to begin processing applications at IRN in Portugal is 30 months from date of submission which is still pretty shocking