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I believe Portugal was about to end the golden visa. Can someone expand on this topic?

Also, is it true to say the golden visa is not attractive to US citizens?

Finally, which foreign citize s benefit the most from the Portugal golden visa?

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Yes. It has ended the Golden Visa and also the NHR tax exemption scheme.

It may take some time to become law, but some time next year everything will be gone.

Not quite on the golden visa. Just the real estate option.

https://www.portugal.com/news/portugal-officially-ending-gol...

Also worth noting that the real estate option has excluded property in Lisbon and the surroundings, Porto and Algarve for some time, and those were the places where most people from abroad would have wanted to move to.

> is it true to say the golden visa is not attractive to US citizens?

It was still attractive because it gave you a pretty fast path to a second citizenship.

For certain definitions of the word “fast.” The period is officially 5 years, but I believe you could be waiting years on either end for the initial permit as well as final citizenship.

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