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Passport through Residency can be obtained by continuous residency (or Permanant Residency) in Portugal for 6 years. After 6 years of Permanant Residency in Portugal, an applicant can lodge a valid Portuguese Nationality application. This will result in Portugal Citizenship and the right to hold a Portuguese Passport.

Provided that:

He/she is an adult or has been legally emancipated under Portuguese law; AND

He/she has sufficient knowledge of the Portuguese language; AND

He/she has not been convicted for a crime punished with imprisonment for 3 or more years.

Portuguese nationality may also be acquired by an individual with legal residence in Portuguese territory for at least 5 years in the following cases:

By marriage with a Portuguese for more than 3 years provided that the foreign individual issued a statement during the marriage declaring that the he/she wants to adopt the Portuguese nationality; OR

By a de facto union with a Portuguese for more than 3 years pursuant to a court decision recognizing the existence of such union.
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WhatPassport.com is a specialist UK Nationality and British Citizenship site offering an online search and assessment. Claims to hold a British Passport can be complex and the site offers a quick, simple search to give you the answers. While many people qualify for the UK Ancestry Visa based on holding a Commonwealth passport with a UK born grandmother or grandfather, we have found that if you have a grandparent born in the UK, or if your mother is British or your father is British, then there are several scenarios where you can claim British Nationality and the right to hold a British Passport. This stems from Britain’s collection of British Colonies, British Protectorates and British Protected States in the middle of last century and the Nationality rules concerning what are now the countries of the Commonwealth.

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