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AIMA, residence permits, visas, family reunification and citizenship: current rules, deadlines and how the process works, checked against official sources.
Free movement means no visa, but anyone from the EU who stays in Lisbon longer than three months still has one piece of paperwork to do, and family members from outside the EU have a different route.
For permanent residence and, until the 2026 reform, citizenship, the CIPLE has been the standard way to prove basic Portuguese. How registration, the exam day and results work.
The 2025 change to the foreigners law added a waiting period for most sponsors, with exceptions for children and some permit types. This is how the AIMA process works now.
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