There are no restricted citizenships to Golden Visa applications in Portugal. It is expected that some changes occur in the program in the short term, since a working group designated by the government at this moment is doing an evaluation to the program. Regardless of any changes, from the previous amendments to the Golden Visa regime, the submitted processes where never subject to the new regulations which matches with the principle of law application in time established in the article 12th of the Portuguese civil code, according to which, “The law only provides for the future; even if retroactive effectiveness is attributed to it, it is presumed that the effects already produced by the facts that the law is intended to regulate are safeguarded”.
