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>My plan right now is to buy property in Portugal
>If you have the cash to buy property it's better to go for a country that gives you residency for the purchase

Portugal used to be one of those countries—they’ve still got a “golden visa” residence by investment scheme, but real estate no longer qualifies as of late 2023. There’s a housing crisis in many parts of the country, and rich non-EU foreigners buying houses for permits made it a lot worse.

To get a residence permit by investment, you now have to keep €500K in one of a few approved Portuguese funds for a minimum of 5 years. On the plus side, residence by investment now also includes permission to work (which wasn’t guaranteed when you just needed to buy a house). But as with pretty much all country-specific residence permits in Europe, it only offers permission to live and work in Portugal, unlike EU citizenship, which still offers largely unrestricted free movement.

To OP, if you can afford to invest €500K that doesn’t include your housing, and you can manage to find a job, you’re eligible to apply for Portuguese citizenship after five years in-country. So the plan isn’t at all impossible, but it’s not coming cheap.

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