"Perverse secrecy" surrounding golden visas - The Portugal News
“In Portugal there is no way of knowing who the people with a golden visa are, unlike in Cyprus and Malta”, criticizes Ana Gomes.
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“In Portugal there is no way of knowing who the people with a golden visa are, unlike in Cyprus and Malta”, criticizes Ana Gomes.
Transparency International (TI) Portugal has welcomed the Government's decision to suspend the granting of golden visas to Russian citizens.
The number of foreign citizens living in Portugal is at an all-time high, and the number of Americans residing there is at its highest level in over a decade.
Most foreign residents come from Brazil, followed by those from the UK.
With hybrid and home-working arrangements having become commonplace due to Covid-19, more and more people are questioning whether they might be better off living somewhere else - whether that’s escaping punitive big city rental markets or moving to another country altogether. Having just been named the best country in the world to be a remote worker in 2022 by the travel research website Momondo, Portugal is one such country which consciously capitalises on the trend towards location-independent ways of working, especially in its capital city of Lisbon.