A Portugal digital nomad visa lawyer should check your remote-work evidence, income documents and filing location before you pay a retainer. Compare 14 law firms and advisers by credentials, regulator, fees and programme expertise.
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Quick answer: this directory lists 14 Portugal Digital Nomad Visa providers, unranked, with paid profiles listed first. One independent firm has passed GVL's full firm credentials check, a separate review from the bar-number count: Giambrone & Partners — Portugal. Use the filters to narrow by provider type, language and fees.
Portugal offers remote workers two consular routes: a temporary stay visa for stays under a year, or a residence visa that leads to an AIMA residence permit. Both require average monthly income over the last three months of at least four minimum wages: €3,680 a month in 2026, on a €920 minimum wage (Portuguese visa portal, checked 26 Sep 2026).
This remote-work route, known informally as the D8, is separate from the D7 passive-income visa and from the investment-based Portugal Golden Visa.
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Movingto is a full-service immigration, residency and citizenship firm with in-house licensed Portuguese lawyers and dedicated Case Leads managing each case end to end.
Firm-published professionals: David Simões Fitas, Inês Cabral Almeida and Paulo Moura
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Movingto is a full-service immigration, residency and citizenship firm with in-house licensed Portuguese lawyers and dedicated Case Leads managing each case end to end.
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Portuguese law firm Giambrone & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados SP, RL (NIPC 516 410 733), with Porto office at Rua de Sá da Bandeira 182. This Portugal listing is legally separate from the UK LLP and other network firms.
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Portugal-focused residency and relocation adviser coordinating Golden Visa and other residence applications through its professional network.
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Lisbon law office founded in 2009 by Portuguese lawyer Clara Silva da Costa, advising international clients on Golden Visa, residence, citizenship and related private-client matters.
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Lisbon immigration and family-office practice founded in 2000, advising on Portugal's Golden Visa, alternative residence routes, nationality, tax planning, succession, corporate matters and property-related work.
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Full-service legal and relocation firm in Lisbon and Porto, offering immigration, accounting, and notarial services in 6 languages.
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The world's largest immigration services firm with 70+ years of experience, 5,500 professionals, and 60+ offices across 170+ countries.
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Independent international residence and citizenship advisory founded in 2014, with published offices in London, Lisbon, Athens and Istanbul.
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UK-registered investment-migration advisory helping international clients compare residence and citizenship options.
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Lexidy Law Boutique, founded in Barcelona in 2015, is an international legal-services group advising on immigration, residence, citizenship, corporate, real-estate and tax matters. Portugal society OA 42/19; Spain’s Golden Visa closed to new applications in April 2025.
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Liberty is a Lisbon law practice founded in 2024 (NIF 518334317). Its commercial “sociedade de advogados” name is not an OA-registered sociedade. HQ Rua do Carmo 15, 3° dto, 1200-093 Lisboa.
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Boutique law firm in Lisbon, London, and São Paulo specialising in Portuguese and Spanish nationality, immigration, and real estate.
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Cross-border practice brand for Navas Oliveira Sociedade Individual de Advocacia (Brazil) and a Lisbon Unipessoal consultancy (not a Portuguese OA society), with Managing Partner Luciano Navas Rodrigues de Oliveira licensed OAB/SP, Texas and California.
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Regulated Lisbon law firm (Ordem dos Advogados Registo 44/22; constituição 5 December 2022) founded by Sara Sousa Rebolo and Vanessa Rodrigues Lima, advising international clients on immigration, residence, investment, real estate and private-client matters.
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Inês is a senior in-house Portuguese immigration lawyer at Movingto, working on Golden Visa, D7, D8, D2, residency and nationality matters. Ordem dos Advogados registration 61676P was checked active on 2 August 2026.
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Mário Pinheiro Torres is an advogado enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados (Porto), cédula 48588P (Activo; inscrição 10 May 2010). Practice address matches Giambrone & Associados Porto HQ.
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Filipe Schonburg de Mira is an advogado/a enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados (Lisboa), cédula 57477L (Activo; inscrição 10-10-2017). Practice address matches Prime Legal on Rua Artilharia 1, Lisboa.
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Cláudia Almeida Mendes is an advogada enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados (Lisboa), cédula 69799L (Activo; inscrição 15 April 2024). Practice address matches Liberty’s Rua do Carmo HQ. Firm lists her as Senior Lawyer for Portugal.
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Maria Luiza Moreira is an advogado/a enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados (Lisboa), cédula 71717L (Activo; inscrição 16-12-2025). Practice address matches Prime Legal on Rua Artilharia 1, Lisboa.
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Paulo is an in-house Portuguese immigration lawyer at Movingto, working on D7, D8, family reunification, residence and related matters. Ordem dos Advogados registration 71517P was checked active on 2 August 2026.
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Sara Sousa Rebolo is a partner, lawyer and co-founder of Prime Legal in Lisbon. Ordem dos Advogados lists her as Activo (Lisboa), cédula 51994L, inscrição 22 January 2013, at the firm’s Artilharia 1 headquarters. Practice focus per firm: immigration, residence, nationality, real estate, foreign investment, labour and corporate law. Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
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Vanessa Rodrigues Lima is a partner and co-founder of Prime Legal in Lisbon. Her current profile describes almost ten years advising private clients on residence, investment and relocation to Portugal and companies on employee mobility. Before Prime Legal, she worked at Abreu Advogados, CCA and Caiado Guerreiro, including a Beijing secondment. Her qualifications include a PUC-Rio law degree, Católica Lisbon master’s and specialist immigration, nationality and real-estate study.
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Clara Silva da Costa founded CSC Lawyers in Lisbon in 2009 and advises international individuals, families and businesses on Portuguese immigration, Golden Visa, nationality, real-estate, private-client, corporate and litigation matters. Current Ordem dos Advogados material matches her to cédula 45229L. Her official biography publishes a law degree, postgraduate study in Registries and Notarial Practice and Labour Law, and prior legal-adviser and litigation experience.
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Elaine Cardozo is an advogada enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados (Lisboa), cédula 20172L (Activo; inscrição 18 October 2004). OA address matches Nistal & Associados on Rua Marquês de Subserra, Lisboa.
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Tânia Pereira Teixeira is an advogada enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados (Porto), cédula 61595P (Activo; inscrição 20 September 2019). Practice address matches Giambrone & Associados Porto HQ.
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Sofia Paixão is an advogada enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados (Lisboa), cédula 52671L (Activo; inscrição 12 November 2013), at Rua Marquês de Subserra — firm HQ.
View the record→Temporary stay visa: for stays of less than a year. It is valid for the whole stay and allows multiple entries.
Residence visa: allows two entries and is valid for four months, during which you must apply to AIMA (Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo) for a residence permit.
Choose by how long you plan to stay; a Portugal digital nomad visa lawyer should confirm which one fits before you file. Source: Portuguese visa portal, types of visa, checked 26 Sep 2026.
Employees: a work contract or an employer declaration confirming the employment. The temporary stay visa also accepts a promise of a work contract.
Self-employed: a company contract, a services contract, or a document attesting services provided to one or more entities. The temporary stay visa also accepts a written proposal for a services contract.
Income and tax: proof of average monthly income over the last three months of at least four minimum monthly wages, and a document attesting your tax residence. The consular post may ask for more.
Visa fee: €110 per national visa application. Sources: temporary stay and residence document lists and fees page, checked 26 Sep 2026.
The consulates' means-of-subsistence rules add a share of the minimum wage per family member: 50% for a second adult and 30% for each child or dependent young person. The remote-work document lists state only the four-minimum-wage test, so ask counsel how your consulate combines the two for a family file.
Family members of a temporary stay visa holder apply for an accompanying-family temporary stay visa. Family of a resident normally follow through family reunification authorised by AIMA.
Average monthly income over the last three months of at least four minimum wages. With the 2026 minimum wage at €920, that is €3,680 a month.
The temporary stay visa covers stays of under a year. The residence visa is valid for four months and is the route to an AIMA residence permit for a longer stay.
No. The digital nomad route is for professional work done remotely and uses the four-minimum-wage income test. The D7 is a separate visa built around passive income.
The national visa processing fee is €110. AIMA residence-permit charges and legal fees are separate.
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