One of the pivotal reasons why we were comfortable with the idea of moving to Portugal was its excellent public healthcare system. We had heard...

Around mid-Feb, our lease agreement was signed, sealed and delivered, and ready to proceed with the application. Our Police Clearance Certificates had also come through,...

Figuring new things out is a slow process for us and the cheap cab fares in Porto certainly didn’t help push us to finding out...

Deciding to move to Portugal on the D7 visa was the easy part. The difficult part lay in finding a house to live in, a...

While we expounded on the documentation and what’s required to get the D7, we realise that a lot more needs to be said about what...

Preparations SEF – Full form – Servico de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (Foreigners and Borders Service) By the time of our rescheduled SEF appointment on 31st...

In the run-up to our moving to Portugal, most, if not all of our energies were devoted to getting the visa or packing and moving...

We received news about our visas being granted exactly 60 days from the date of our application. We had dreamt of this moment since we...

When we started telling people we were applying for the Portuguese residency visa, the immediate question was, how can I get one too? So before...

Some might call us mad. Others call us hopeless optimists. Many of our friends can’t understand why we would want this upheaval in our lives...