Guides & articles
NIF and NISS, bank accounts, taxes, AIMA, visas and moving to Portugal: practical guides for foreigners.
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Documents & IDs
Find the Portuguese consular post for your registered address in France, see what Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Nantes publish about NIF applications, and how the number is assigned.
Documents & IDs
Find the Portuguese consular post for your registered address in Germany, see what Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Hattersheim publish about NIF applications, and how the number is assigned.
Documents & IDs
Find the Portuguese consular post for your registered address in Luxembourg, see what the Consulate General in Luxembourg City publishes about NIF applications, and how the number is assigned.
Documents & IDs
Find the Portuguese consular post for your registered address in Spain, see what Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Vigo publish about NIF applications, and how the number is assigned.
Documents & IDs
Find the Portuguese consular post for your registered address in the Netherlands, see what the Consular Section of the Embassy in The Hague publishes about NIF applications, and how the number is assigned.
Documents & IDs
Find the Portuguese consular post for your registered address in the United Kingdom, see what London and Manchester publish about NIF applications, and how the number is assigned.
Documents & IDs
Find the Portuguese consular post for your registered address in the United States, see what Washington DC, Boston, New York, San Francisco, New Bedford and Providence publish about NIF applications, and how the number is assigned.
Taxes
Check, register and classify e-Fatura invoice records in Portugal: where to look, what pending records mean, what to do with missing invoices and how this fits into the IRS calendar.
Business
A current, source-backed guide to choosing and issuing a fatura, recibo or fatura-recibo, checking VAT and IRS fields, and correcting mistakes.
Documents & IDs
See an older example of a Portuguese NISS assignment letter, learn what the proof confirms, how to obtain yours, and which records it does not replace.
Visas & residency
SEF was replaced by AIMA in October 2023. There is no single booking route: the official channel depends on your case — visa-issued appointment, online renewal portal, e-mail notification, or contact form.
Taxes
An archived explanation of the exceptional IFICI calendar for 2024 tax residents, including the March, April and May 2025 procedural deadlines.
