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Short, practical notes on moving people and companies between Brazil and Portugal. Written for clients, not for other lawyers.
Immigration · 5 min
D7, D8 or CPLP: which residence route actually fits a Brazilian family
The three routes most Brazilian clients ask about, what each one requires in practice, and the situations where the "obvious" choice costs you a year.
Read the note →Corporate · 4 min
Opening a Portuguese Lda. from abroad: the checklist nobody sends you
NIF, fiscal representative, bank account, registered office. The order matters, and getting it wrong is the most common reason a company launch slips by two months.
Read the note →Cross-border · 6 min
Moving the founder and the company at the same time
How to sequence the residence application, the incorporation and the tax-residency change so that none of them blocks the others.
Read the note →Citizenship · 3 min
Counting the five years: what does and doesn't interrupt residence for Portuguese citizenship
Trips, gaps between permits and pending renewals: what the registry actually looks at when it counts your time in Portugal.
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