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21 July 2025

Portugal announces new action plan to address immigration challenges and reform citizenship laws

The Portuguese government recently announced a new action plan to address immigration challenges and reform the nationality law that is focused on more efficient regularization processes, stronger integration requirements and revised pathways to citizenship. To address the high pressure on Portugal's immigration and nationality systems, due to the high volume of pending applications and long processing times, the Portuguese government has proposed a new action plan to improve the management of immigration application processing and reduce delays. The new action plan also seeks to tighten the rules for acquiring Portuguese citizenship. As part of the proposal, the Portuguese authorities released two drafts of proposed amendments to the Portuguese Nationality and Immigration Law and indicated that they will provide further information regarding these proposals in September.

A Tax Alert prepared by EY's People Advisory Services, and attached below, provides additional details.

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