Route assessment
Tell us about your next move
Contact Movingto with the short form below to start a free, no-obligation route assessment for Portugal residency, the Golden Visa, D7, D8 or wider residency planning. We aim to reply within one business day with the next step for your route.
A route assessment is a free first call in which Movingto checks your goals, family, timing and documents against the residency routes that could fit.
Movingto is a Portugal-first immigration firm that puts a named, Bar-registered lawyer from its in-house legal team on your case and publishes its fees.
Before you get in touch
The figures most enquiries start with, each with its source and the date it was checked.
| Fact | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Movingto Golden Visa service fee (fund route) | €6,000 flat | Movingto pricing page, updated 16 October 2026 |
| AIMA Golden Visa fees per applicant, first permit | €6,946.30 (€632.10 analysis + €6,314.20 permit) | AIMA fee table, applied from 1 March 2026, checked 16 October 2026 |
| Golden Visa timeline | 12 to 24+ months from submission. Across 13 Movingto cases submitted from September 2025 to September 2026, AIMA scheduled biometrics a median 11.7 months after submission. | Movingto case observations, 16 October 2026 |
| D7 minimum income in 2026 | €920 a month for the main applicant (the Portuguese minimum wage), plus 50% for each extra adult and 30% for each child | MNE means-of-subsistence rules for national visas and DGERT notice on the 2026 minimum wage (Decreto-Lei 139/2025), checked 16 October 2026 |
| D8 minimum income in 2026 | €3,680 a month (4 times the €920 minimum wage), averaged over the last 3 months | Portuguese consular visa portal, residency visa documents, checked 16 October 2026 |
| Movingto's in-house Portuguese lawyers | Inês Cabral Almeida (61676P), David Simões Fitas (67185P) and Paulo Moura (71517P), each listed as Activo | Ordem dos Advogados lawyer register, checked 16 October 2026 |
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