Golden Visa
Regime
Proposal:
To grant temporary residence permits in Portugal through a simplified mechanism to foreign individuals (non-EU nationals) who invest in Portugal.
Benefits to the investor:
Access to Schengen Area
- Move freely by the Schengen Area – conduct business, contacts or simply to business or leisure trips;
- Access to portuguese nationality and benefit from Visa Exemption Program (Temporary Visas) – legal requirements must be respected.
Family in Europe
- To live, work and study in Portugal – you will be able to develop your activities and have your family with you;
- Regroup with your direct family – allows your family members to enjoy the Residence Permit as well;
- To offer an European experience to your children – your children may benefit from excellent education, culture and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Attractive Investment Opportunities
- To acquire a real asset of various typologies and places (land properties, real estate, office and/or touristic buildings) www.raxboutique.com;
- Diversify investment opportunities – both in Portugal and in the majority of European countries;
- To facilitate the commercial transactions and movements – it allows to search for new markets, investments and investors, getting to know each countries’ attractiveness to foreign investment;
- To invest in companies – to enter the European market through acquiring an existing company or creating a new one;
- Access to qualified and affordable manpower – the costs of doing business in Portugal with the labour factor have been decreasing in the latest years;
- To benefit from agreements to eliminate double taxation that Portugal is part of – it allows to avoid double taxation of income generated in countries that have an agreement with Portugal.
How can you acquire a Golden Visa residence permit:
Beneficiaries are Foreign nationals (non-EU nationals) who:
- individually and directly perform investment activities in Portugal (as described below);
- perform investment activities in Portugal through a company (holding the share capital of a company with registered office in Portugal or in an EU Member State - in this case the company registered in a EU Member State must have a permanent establishment in Portugal). The investment made through the company should be determined by reference to the share capital held by the investor (the individual obtaining the visa).
Golden Visa: Application Process