Moving to Portugal

We moved our family to Central Portugal. This is everything we learned, the visas, the paperwork, the costs, the things nobody tells you. Built from real experience, updated when things change.

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Which Visa Is Right for You?

Five questions. Two minutes. A personalised recommendation based on your situation, passive income, remote work, student, or other.

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What Will It Cost?

A realistic 12-month Portugal budget. Six quick questions about family, region, and lifestyle, then we email you the full breakdown.

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Your Document Checklist

The documents you actually need, in the order to gather them, and where to get each one. Four questions, tailored to your visa, nationality, and family.

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Read our stories

True stories from our move. The lawyer who declined us, the day we got our NIF, the school that said no. Honest, specific, from the inside.

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Which Portugal Is Right for You?

Compare up to three regions side by side. Cost, schools, healthcare, weather, community. Honest, from a family who lived in three.

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Understanding the D7 Visa

Passive income requirements, the application process, what the approval timeline looks like, and the questions people ask us most.

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Getting Your NIF in Portugal

What it is, why you need it before almost everything else, and how to get one, before and after you arrive.

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How Healthcare Works When You Arrive

SNS registration, private insurance, finding a GP, and how the system actually treats you in the first year.

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Portugal immigration news

We monitor changes to Portuguese immigration law, AIMA announcements, and tax updates that affect expats. Updates coming soon.

The people who helped us

Warm introductions to professionals we have actually used in our move to Portugal. Lawyers, fiscal reps, doctors, schools. Elena connects you personally. See the directory and request an introduction →

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The longer-form story of our first 12 months. What worked, what surprised us, what we got wrong. The newsletter goes out when this lands.