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European Union Visa Express
10-18-2012, 05:11 PM
A VIP Visa was just created by the portuguese government, giving access to all EU.
Requirements:
1 - One million dollar deposit in portuguese bank;
2 - Acquisition of a 500.000,00Euros house.
3 - Creation of 30 jobs.
Check this link for more details:
http://www.plmj.com/xms/files/newsletter...RTUGAL.pdf
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European Union Visa Express
10-18-2012, 06:03 PM
Doesn't sound very express to me!
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European Union Visa Express
10-18-2012, 06:41 PM
yep the requirements are stiff, but it´s getting a lot of interest specially from asia.
Chineses don´t even wanna come to Portugal. They buy the Visa, and directly go to Spain or France.
There´s nothing similar in Europe. There´s Estonia and others but there are some restrictions that don´t apply to this one.
Imagine you buy a 500k house. You rent it at 4k per month and live weherever you want without any restrictions on work, etc in all Shengen area.
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European Union Visa Express
10-18-2012, 07:09 PM
Ireland has had a
similar program since 2009. You can buy your way to Irish citizenship in 3-4 months with €½-3 million (and the right lawyers.)
I can't have sex with your personality, and I can't put my penis in your college degree, and I can't shove my fist in your childhood dreams, so why are you sharing all this information with me?
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European Union Visa Express
10-18-2012, 08:01 PM
Austria also has that buy citizenship program but it's a complex process and citizenship even with the right lawyers is not guarranteed. By law without any discritionary decision you authomatically have the right to a permit and your family with this visa. You don't need the right lawyer. Spain will probably create one soon also.
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European Union Visa Express
10-19-2012, 09:01 AM
You can do the same thing in Spain for 1/10th the price. It's not official though. You have to work through a lawyer. And you don't even have to spend the money. Just have it, deposit it in a Spanish account and get a statement from the bank. Takes about a year. It gets you Spanish residence. Doesn't allow you to live in Germany for example, at least not officially. I think it takes 3 years to get full residence allowing you to live anywhere in the EU.
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European Union Visa Express
10-19-2012, 09:38 AM
I'm pretty sure "residence" means residence in that country ONLY (although you can always travel).
To live and work ANYWHERE in the EU would mean having EU citizenship.
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European Union Visa Express
10-19-2012, 10:10 AM
@wwtraveler: It´s first given for one year, renewable till 5 years. After that you can apply to permanent permit for 6 years. And finally citizenship.
@Man about: You can live anywehere and work anywhere in EU, except UK. That´s the Shengen treaty. About Spain If it´s not official it´s illegal. If it´s ilegal, what happens is that you might get scammed.
@Temujin: You will have to live at least 30 days in Portugal every year, the proof will be made with your passport stamp. It´s valid for all Shengen area you can live, work, travel in any shengen country. Barrier might be lifted by other countries. But til now none have been.
In two weeks I will receive people coming from China just because of this Visa.
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European Union Visa Express
10-20-2012, 03:31 AM
This is a useless measure, it won't make any change to the economy, a bit like the French government raising taxes on the rich, as apure "symbolical" measure.
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