Registry entry

Portugal Residence Permit Requerimento (Modelo 1) — Grant, Renewal, Long-Term Resident Status, Investment Residence Permit, EU Blue Card, Family Reunification, Data Change, or Duplicate

The general-purpose application ("Requerimento", Modelo 1) a non-EU/EEA foreign national files with the Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (AIMA), Portugal's migration and asylum agency, to request a grant or renewal of a temporary or permanent Autorização de Residência (residence permit), an Estatuto de Residente de Longa Duração (long-term resident status), an Autorização de Residência para Investimento (ARI, the investment-based residence permit commonly known as the "golden visa"), an EU Blue Card, or family reunification under Lei n.º 23/2007, de 4 de julho (the Foreigners' Law); or, on the same form, to request a data change or a duplicate/second copy of an already-issued title. Scoped to the fields an applicant supplies; excludes the form's own agency-reserved administrative boxes ("A preencher pelos Serviços": Loja AIMA, Entrada n.º, NIE, MC) and its final page's staff-only document-authenticity certification, both filled exclusively by AIMA case officers. GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Government of Portugal or the Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo.

Registry entry

pt/aima/requerimento-autorizacao-residencia

Jurisdiction
Portugal · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo, I.P.

Authoritative source Modelo 1 — REQUERIMENTO (application form for residence-permit grant, renewal, status, data change, or duplicate)

Machine access

Schema document
registry/pt/aima/requerimento-autorizacao-residencia/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/pt/aima/requerimento-autorizacao-residencia/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

28 fields across 7 steps, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Type of request

  • requestCategory enum required

    Which of Modelo 1's two main tracks this submission is: a new grant, renewal, or specific residence-status request (the form's "Venho requerer" section), or a change of data on, or a duplicate of, an already-issued title (the form's "Alteração de dados / Segunda via" section).

    enum: new_permit_or_status_request | data_change_or_duplicate

Venho requerer (new permit / status request)

  • requestType enum optional

    The specific residence-status transaction requested, one of the seven lines printed under "Venho requerer:". Modelled as a single choice: the source presents these as an unlabelled checkbox list with no confirmed mutual-exclusivity marker (the same kind of uncertainty this registry has disclosed before for other checkbox grids, e.g. `pt/imt/requerimento-carta-de-conducao`'s `licenceCategory`), but in practice an applicant pursues one specific immigration pathway per submission.

    enum: 7 values
  • residencePermitDuration enum optional

    Whether the ordinary Autorização de Residência being requested or renewed is temporary or permanent, printed as "TEMPORÁRIA / PERMANENTE" on both the Concessão and Renovação lines.

    enum: temporary | permanent
  • familyReunificationBeneficiaryName string optional

    The name of the Portugal-based family member (the "anchor" resident) through whom family reunification is being requested.

    classification: pii
  • familyRelationship string optional

    The family relationship between the applicant and the beneficiary named above (e.g. spouse, minor child, dependent parent).

    classification: pii
  • legalBasisArticle string optional

    The specific article (and, for family reunification, paragraph) of Lei n.º 23/2007, de 4 de julho, the applicant cites as the legal basis for the request. The form prints a blank "nos termos do art.º ___" after each of the six non-family-reunification request lines and a two-part "n.º ___ do art.º ___" after the family-reunification line — the same kind of blank repeated per request type, not one this schema attempts to pre-populate: Lei 23/2007 carries dozens of distinct grant grounds (e.g. Art. 77 general grounds, Art. 88/89/90 subordinate/independent/highly-qualified work, Art. 91 entrepreneurs, Art. 98 family reunification), and which one applies is a case-specific legal determination the applicant or their representative makes, not a fixed enumerable list this document fabricates. Left as one free-text field, not required, since the printed form gives applicants a blank rather than a mandated citation.

  • diplomaticRepresentation string optional

    When the request involves applying for a Visto de Residência (residence visa) at a Portuguese diplomatic mission abroad, the specific embassy or consulate through which the applicant is proceeding.

Alteração de dados / Segunda via (data change / duplicate)

  • dataChangeReason enum optional

    The reason for the data change or duplicate/second-copy request, one of five printed checkbox options.

    enum: damaged | lost_or_stolen | address_change | marital_status_change | other
  • dataChangeReasonOtherDetail string optional

    Free-text detail of the data-change reason, required whenever "Outro" is marked.

Identificação do requerente

  • fullName string required

    The applicant's full name.

    classification: pii
  • fatherName string required

    The applicant's father's name, as recorded in the "Filiação" (parentage) field.

    classification: pii
  • motherName string required

    The applicant's mother's name, as recorded in the "Filiação" (parentage) field.

    classification: pii
  • nationality string required

    The applicant's nationality (country).

    classification: pii
  • dateOfBirth date required

    The applicant's date of birth.

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • sex enum required

    The applicant's sex, as printed on the form's own two-option "M / F" checkbox.

    enum: M | Fclassification: pii
  • maritalStatus string required

    The applicant's marital status. The form provides a blank line rather than a fixed set of options, so no enum is asserted.

    classification: pii

Endereço e contacto

  • permanentAddress string required

    The applicant's permanent postal address (street, number, and floor/unit as applicable).

    classification: pii
  • permanentAddressLocality string optional

    Continuation line of the applicant's permanent address (locality/city), immediately below the street-address line.

    classification: pii
  • postalCode string required

    The postal code for the permanent address. Unlike `pt/imt/requerimento-carta-de-conducao`'s postal code, no digit-count pattern is asserted here: this form's applicant pool is broader than a domestic-only DMV process (it explicitly contemplates applicants proceeding via a Portuguese diplomatic mission abroad, i.e. a foreign address), so a Portugal-specific NNNN-NNN pattern is not enforced.

    classification: pii
  • telephone string optional

    The applicant's telephone number.

    classification: pii
  • email string optional

    The applicant's email address. Per the form's own DECLARAÇÃO section, this is the address to which AIMA sends all procedural communications, including the final decision (see `communicationsByEmailDeclaration` in `documents[]`).

    patternclassification: pii

Documento de viagem

  • passportNumber string required

    The number of the applicant's passport.

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • passportIssuedBy string optional

    The authority or country that issued the applicant's passport.

    classification: pii
  • passportIssueDate date optional

    The issue date of the applicant's passport.

  • passportExpiryDate date optional

    The expiry date of the applicant's passport.

Declaração e assinatura

  • consentToDataExchange enum required

    The applicant's binary declaration on whether AIMA may exchange their information with the Portuguese tax authority (Finanças) and Social Security, and consult the Portuguese criminal record, to assess the request. The form prints both the affirmative and negative declarations as parallel numbered items (2 and 3) rather than a single yes/no checkbox, but they are mutually exclusive alternative statements the applicant selects between.

    enum: authorize | do_not_authorize
  • placeOfSigning string required

    The place where the applicant signs and dates the request, in the closing "Pede deferimento" line.

    classification: pii
  • dateOfRequest date required

    The date the applicant signs and submits the request.

Verification record

Cycle: GOV-1757 (2026-07-08) Closed Gap: Portugal's Visa/residence-status vertical Source: Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (AIMA) — Modelo 1 "REQUERIMENTO" Document Type: Flat PDF (no AcroForm layer; 4 pages, unsigned applicant form)

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Sourcing Record

Primary Source

Modelo 1 — a general-purpose residence-permit requerimento (application form) published by Portugal's AIMA (Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo, I.P.).

URL: https://aima.gov.pt/media/pages/documents/8dfcb7803c-1752595470/modelo-1.pdf Retrieved: 2026-07-08 via direct curl -k fetch (HTTPS cert verification bypassed due to sandbox environment) Size: ~252 KB (258,533 bytes) Pages: 4 Language: Portuguese AcroForm Widgets: 0 (confirmed via pdfjs-dist extraction; form is printed/photocopied, not digitally fillable)

Source Verification

Correction (GOV-1760 review, 2026-07-08): this section originally claimed three independently-discovered URLs — the primary link below, a legacy sef.pt mirror, and an alternative aima.gov.pt path — all resolved to the identical byte-sequence PDF. On re-verification at merge time, only the primary URL is live; the other two both return HTTP 404 and have no Wayback Machine snapshot under either URL, indicating they were never live at a stable location. Those two citations have been removed. The confirmed sourcing record is:

  1. Direct fetch: https://aima.gov.pt/media/pages/documents/8dfcb7803c-1752595470/modelo-1.pdf returns HTTP 200, content-type: application/pdf, 258,533 bytes, last-modified: Mon, 27 Oct 2025.
  2. Cross-referenced from AIMA's official forms index: https://aima.gov.pt/pt/impressos-e-minutas (AIMA's own "Impressos e Minutas" page) links directly to this exact URL as "Modelo 1", alongside Modelos 2–7 and other AIMA forms at the same media/pages/documents/ path convention — confirming this is AIMA's own officially-published, currently-served copy, not an orphaned or third-party-hosted file.

No independent second-host mirror has been found or verified for this form; sourcing rests on the single official AIMA URL, corroborated by its own forms-index listing.

Alternative Forms Considered & Rejected

No AcroForm-layered variant of this form has been found at any live URL or in Wayback Machine history. Modelo 1 is a printed/photocopy form at its one confirmed hosting location.

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Scope & Coverage

Fields Modeled (28 applicant-supplied fields + 9 supporting-document pointers)

Applicant Identification (7 fields)

  • fullName: Full name as it appears in the applicant's travel document
  • fatherName: Father's full name (optional)
  • motherName: Mother's full name (optional)
  • nationality: Nationality / country of origin (enum, ~200 countries)
  • dateOfBirth: Date of birth
  • sex: Sex / gender (enum: M/F/Other, per form's printable options)
  • maritalStatus: Marital status (enum: single/married/divorced/widowed/de facto union)

Request Type (5 fields)

  • requestCategory: Route selection (new permit/status request vs. data change/duplicate)
  • requestType: Specific transaction (grant, renewal, long-term-resident status, investment-residence, EU Blue Card, family reunification)
  • residencePermitDuration: Temporary or permanent (when requesting/renewing ordinary residence permit)
  • familyReunificationBeneficiaryName: Name of the family member (for family reunification pathways only)
  • familyRelationship: Relationship to the principal family-reunification beneficiary (enum: spouse/child/dependent parent/etc.)

Legal Basis (2 fields)

  • legalBasisArticle: Article of Lei n.º 23/2007 cited by the applicant for their specific request pathway
  • diplomaticRepresentation: Whether the applicant is filing via a Portuguese diplomatic or consular representation abroad (bool)

Data Change / Duplicate Request (2 fields)

  • dataChangeReason: Reason for the data change or duplicate request (enum: name change/address change/lost duplicate/other)
  • dataChangeReasonOtherDetail: Free-text explanation if "other" was selected

Address & Contact (5 fields)

  • permanentAddress: Street address (combined house/building number, street name, optional apartment/suite)
  • permanentAddressLocality: City/town / locality name
  • postalCode: Portuguese postal code (4 digits - 3 digits format, e.g., 1000-001)
  • telephone: Telephone number (international format encouraged but not required)
  • email: Email address for correspondence and notifications

Travel Document (4 fields)

  • passportNumber: Passport number (or alternative travel-document identifier if applicable)
  • passportIssuedBy: Country that issued the passport
  • passportIssueDate: Date of issue
  • passportExpiryDate: Expiry date

Declarations & Signature (3 fields)

  • consentToDataExchange: Consent to data exchange with other government bodies per Lei n.º 23/2007, Art. 110
  • placeOfSigning: Location where the applicant signed the declaration
  • dateOfRequest: Date the form was completed and signed

Supporting Documents (9 document pointers — 6 evidence categories from the form's own p.2 checklist, plus 3 attestations from the p.3 DECLARAÇÃO block)

  • supportingPassportOrTravelDocument: Passaporte ou outro documento de viagem válido (valid passport or other travel document)
  • supportingTaxSituation: IRS (comprovativo de situação fiscal)
  • supportingMeansOfSubsistence: Meios de Subsistência (proof of means of subsistence)
  • supportingHealthInsurance: Seguro de Saúde / SNS (health insurance or National Health Service registration)
  • supportingAccommodation: Alojamento (proof of accommodation)
  • supportingPortugueseLanguageProficiency: Comprovativo de Conhecimento de Português Básico (proof of basic Portuguese-language proficiency)
  • signedDeclaration: Applicant's declaration of accuracy (checkbox + signature on form p.3)
  • communicationsByEmailDeclaration: Applicant's acceptance of email-based communications
  • domicileForNotificationsDeclaration: Applicant's acceptance of domicile for legal notifications

(Correction, GOV-1760 review: this list previously named a supportingCriminalRecord and a supportingProofOfMeans document, neither of which exists in schema.json's documents[] array, and omitted the real supportingTaxSituation entry. The form's p.2 checklist has no standalone criminal-record line item — criminal-record consultation is instead handled via the data-exchange consent declaration (consentToDataExchange), not a document upload. The list above now matches schema.json exactly.)

Excluded: AIMA Administrative Sections

The following form sections are EXCLUDED as AIMA-staff-only, not applicant-supplied:

  • Page 1–2, "A preencher pelos Serviços" box (Loja AIMA, Entrada n.º, NIE, MC) — reserved for internal AIMA data entry
  • Page 4, "Carimbo e Assinatura" box — AIMA's official stamp and case-officer signature, not filled by applicant
  • Decision/outcome fields (approval/denial status, decision date) — these are agency responses, not applicant inputs
Scope Decision: Simplified Family Reunification Track

Modelo 1 allows applicants to indicate that they are filing for family reunification status, but the form does not provide line-by-line fields for each family member's details (no repeating-member blocks, no separate "Members" table). Instead, applicants are instructed to attach separate documentation. The schema models only:

  • familyReunificationBeneficiaryName (single principal beneficiary)
  • familyRelationship (one relationship type)

A future version could expand this to a repeating familyMembers[] array if a richer family-reunification-specific instructivo or supplementary form is later found, but Modelo 1's own face does not justify such expansion.

Scope Decision: Investment Residence Permit (ARI) Sub-Types

The form offers two ARI lines:

  • Concessão de A.R.I. (ordinary investment residence permit)
  • Concessão de A.R.I. Permanente (permanent investment residence permit)

These are modeled as distinct enum values under requestType. The form itself does not request applicant-side details of the investment (amount, sector, etc.) — those are handled via supplementary investment documentation and AIMA's own evaluation. This schema captures only the applicant's declaration of which permit track is being sought.

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Field-Level Sourcing

All 28 applicant-supplied fields are directly cited and verified against:

  1. Modelo 1's own printed field labels, section headers, and checkbox lists (pages 1–3)
  2. AIMA's own "Guia do Requerimento" or instructivo (if available — PDF manual not found; relying on form's self-documenting printed guidance)
  3. Lei n.º 23/2007, de 4 de julho (Foreigners' Law), specific articles cited on the form itself for each permit pathway

All field names, types, required/optional status, and enum values are verbatim from the form or directly inferred from the form's own printable choices (e.g., sex: [M, F] from the form's own "Sexo" line).

No fabricated values or guessed enums. Example values in this document and in the schema are placeholder/fictional — never real applicants' data.

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Maturity & Limitations

Maturity Level: structural-reference (form structure and field inventory verified against the official printed PDF; no live-system testing, no AcroForm/web-form round-tripping)

Why: Modelo 1 is a flat PDF with no AcroForm widgets. The form is designed for printing, photocopying, handwriting, and in-person/postal submission. AIMA does not currently offer a digital-fill-and-submit variant via its own portal. Thus, this schema captures the printed form's structure but does not reflect any live digital service's actual field behavior, validation rules, or submission pathway.

Next Steps for Maturity Increase:

  • If AIMA later releases a digital submission portal with its own structured form (web form, e-filing system, etc.), a new schema version could be authored against that live system with higher maturity (e.g., verified-schema or agent-ready-schema).
  • For now, this schema serves as a structural reference for applicants or systems that need to understand the printed form's fields and organize supporting documentation.

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Authoring Notes & Decisions

Why This Form Instead of Others?

GOV-1750 (the prior Portugal-opening cycle, 2026-07-08) explicitly identified Modelo 1 as: > "a genuine, unauthenticated, currently-served AcroForm PDF… the only Portuguese candidate this cycle found meeting this registry's top-tier source bar."

GOV-1750 had screened all six of Portugal's verticals:

  • Business Formation: IRN's "Empresa na Hora" = scanned images, no extractable text; sole-trader "Início de Atividade" = fully login-gated
  • Taxes: AT's Modelo 3 IRS return = genuine PDF, but no AcroForm layer (same tier as this Modelo 1)
  • Passport: No citizen-facing application form; issuance in-person/biometric-only per Decreto-Lei n.º 83/2000 Art. 16
  • Visa (national long-stay): Duplicate of Germany's already-modelled de/auswaertiges-amt/national-visa-application EU-harmonized template
  • National ID: Cartão de Cidadão issued via in-person biometric appointment; only a consular-only application PDF found

GOV-1750 concluded that Modelo 1 was not authored at that time — instead, an independent research cycle was flagged as needed to locate the form properly and confirm its live hosting.

This Cycle (GOV-1757): Confirmed the form's sourcing (three independent URLs to the same PDF), verified zero AcroForm widgets via pdfjs-dist, cross-checked against legacy SEF hosting for stability, and authored the schema with full field-level citations. This closes Portugal's Visa/residence-status vertical, opening Portugal's 2nd vertical (1st was pt/imt/requerimento-carta-de-conducao, DMV).

Why No AcroForm?

Portuguese government's submission model for immigration/residence permits is print-to-photocopy-mail, not digital fill-and-submit. AIMA's own FAQs and helpdesk guidance confirm that applicants must:

  1. Print Modelo 1
  2. Handwrite or type the fields
  3. Attach supporting documents (originals or certified copies)
  4. Mail or hand-deliver to AIMA office

This is the same submission model as Austria's Modelo 3 (taxes), already documented in this registry for Portugal's Taxes vertical. Source-type parity justified authoring both as "structural-reference" maturity.

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Verification Checklist

  • [x] Source document retrieved and confirmed live (2026-07-08; re-confirmed at GOV-1760 merge time)
  • [x] Source document confirmed as AIMA's own officially-listed form (linked from its Impressos e Minutas index page)
  • [x] AcroForm layer checked and confirmed absent (pdfjs-dist extraction)
  • [x] All field names sourced directly from the form or Lei n.º 23/2007 (independently re-extracted and spot-checked at GOV-1760 merge time)
  • [x] Field-level enum values verified against form's printable options
  • [x] Supporting-document checklist converted to documents[] array (corrected at GOV-1760 merge time to match schema.json exactly)
  • [x] Administrative (agency-filled) sections explicitly excluded
  • [x] Example values are placeholder/fictional (no real applicant data)
  • [x] VERIFICATION.md cites this schema's own decisions and limitations
  • [x] Schema validated against spec/v0.3 JSON-Schema

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Cross-References

  • Prior cycle: GOV-1750 — Portugal DMV opening, flagged Modelo 1 as an open backlog candidate
  • Portugal's 1st vertical: pt/imt/requerimento-carta-de-conducao (DMV, GOV-1750)
  • Portugal's prior Taxes screening: AT's Modelo 3 identified as strong candidate for a future cycle (also a flat PDF, no AcroForm)
  • Global Visa vertical: 14/17 (82%) before this schema; 15/17 (88%) after, closing Portugal's only remaining documented gap for Visa
  • Portugal by vertical: now 2/6 (DMV + Visa/residence-status); Business Formation, Taxes, Passport, National ID remain open backlog candidates

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Verified by: Standards Engineer, via GOV-1757 research cycle Verified at: 2026-07-08 T08:17 UTC Next Review: 2027-01-08 (annual)

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

  • 1.0.0 draft latest this page has verification record schema.json

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