Extending Stay in Portugal
Residence Visa
Documents Required
Applications for the extension of stay are submitted in any SEF’s directorate or regional delegation, on a standard form, signed by the applicant or his/her legal representative, or on-line, holding the necessary documentation as follows:
- Two recent, identical photographs, in colour with blank background, and easily identifiable (only for appointments at Aveiro or Braga SEF bureau)
- Passport or any other valid travel document
- Whenever the applicant is a minor or legally disabled person, the application should be submitted and signed by his/her legal representative
- Evidence of sufficient means of subsistence, as per the provisions of Order number 1563/2007, of 11/12
- Evidence that the applicant has adequate accommodation
- Permission for checking criminal records (see standard form), where the stay is intended to exceed 90 days (except people under 16 years old)
- Documentary evidence of having submitted an application for a Residence Permit
- Evidence of permanence in national territory or, in case of unpostponable need of being in the home country, documentary evidence to that fact
Notes
- Applications submitted on-line do not relieve the applicant from collecting biometric data and the affixing of SEF’s sticker, by scheduling into one of its Service Bureaus
- The extension of stay may not exceed 90 days
- Applications for extending the period of stay shall not be granted where delivered more than 30 days after the term of the authorized period of stay
- Where the application for extension of stay and for the Residence Visa are submitted simultaneously, there is no need to supply duplicates of the documents that are common to both procedures
- The following administrative offences apply: Article 192 of the Aliens Act (Illegal Stay); Article 197 of the Aliens Act (No entry declaration); Article 199 of the Aliens Act (No travel document).
ARTICLES 71 AND 72 OF THE ALIENS ACT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH ARTICLES 44 AND 50 OF THE REGULATORY DECREE N.84/07 OF 05/11, AS AMENDED
ORDER NUMBER 1563/2007, OF 11/12