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Portugal Visa Requirements: Do You Qualify?
Check whether your income meets Portugal's D7 and D8 digital nomad visa requirements for your whole family, and see the golden visa routes.
How it works
Using the checker
- Enter who moves with you: the adults besides you (a spouse or partner, dependent parents) and the children.
- Enter your monthly income before tax and the savings you can show.
- Each route shows the amount it asks of your household and whether your figures meet it — by income, or by savings where the rules accept them.
How the amounts are worked out
Portugal's thresholds follow the national minimum wage: €920 a month from January 2026.
- D7 visa — for pensioners and people with passive income: 100% of the minimum wage for the applicant, 50% for each further adult and 30% for each child. €920 a month for one person, €1,380 for a couple. Consulates usually accept savings of twelve months of that amount in a Portuguese bank account.
- D8 digital nomad visa — for remote work for employers or clients abroad: an average of four minimum wages over the last three months, €3,680 a month. The rules name no family figure; the calculator adds the general family amounts.
- Golden visa (ARI) — no longer through real estate since October 2023: from €500,000 in Portuguese investment funds or a company that creates jobs, €250,000 in arts and heritage.
Before you apply
You will need a Portuguese tax number (NIF), usually a Portuguese bank account and accommodation in Portugal. A lawyer checks the file before the consulate appointment and handles the residence permit with AIMA after arrival.
1Your details
Spouse or partner, dependent parents
Salary, pension, rents, remote work
Money in the bank you can show
2Your result
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Your figures meet it
D7 Visa (passive income)
Pensioners and people living on rents, dividends or other passive income
- Income needed for your household
- €1,380 / month
- Or savings of
- €16,560
100% of the Portuguese minimum wage (€920 a month, 2026) for you + 50% for each adult + 30% for each child — Portaria 1563/2007.
Consulates usually also accept savings of 12 months of the amount in a Portuguese bank account (practice, not written in the rules).
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Not enough yet
D8 Digital Nomad Visa
Remote work for employers or clients outside Portugal
- Income needed for your household
- €4,140 / month
An average of 4 Portuguese minimum wages (€3,680 a month, 2026) over the last 3 months.
The family amounts follow the general rule (+50% of the minimum wage per adult, +30% per child) — the D8 rules themselves name no family figure.
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Depends on the investment
Golden Visa (ARI)
Residence by investment — no longer through real estate
- Investment
- From €500,000 in Portuguese investment funds or a company with 5 jobs; €250,000 in arts and heritage
Real estate and capital-transfer routes closed on 7 October 2023 (Lei 56/2023). Minimum stay 7 days in the first year, 14 days in each later 2-year period.
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An estimate for planning, not legal or tax advice. Figures checked 26 Oct 2026. Sources: AIMA — means of subsistence, Minimum wage 2026 — DGERT, Vistos MNE — residence visas, Lei 56/2023 (Diário da República).
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