Given the international public health emergency caused by COVID 19, the Portuguese Government has recently published a new regulation extending, once more, the validity of civil documents.

In this regard, we want to emphasize the following:

Residence permit cards whose validity expired on or after February 24th, 2020 must be accepted for all legal purposes until December 31st, 2021.

Nevertheless, the extension is exclusively recognized by the Portuguese authorities, meaning that you can only entry in Schengen Area directly to Portugal, otherwise you must be in a possession of a short-term visitor’s VISA or a valid Schengen VISA.

We will be on top of this subject and provide feedback in the coming weeks for future developments.