The golden visa is a residence visa that can be applied for with an investment in Portuguese property. This visa is for non-EU citizens and gets you on the fast track to obtaining a Portuguese passport. As Portugal is an EU member country, for non-EU citizens, this is an excellent and quick way to get an EU passport that allows you to easily travel to over 100 countries and gives you access to the EU free market.

In just five years, you can apply for your new passport, and you don’t even have to live in Portugal for the whole five years. Many passports of this type require residence in the country where you are applying for your passport, but with the golden visa in Portugal, you only need to live there for seven to fourteen days each year. And with a luxury villa to relax in, that won’t be a hardship.

The golden visa also covers your family members for the same benefits. You can include your spouse, children under eighteen, dependent parents, and any dependent adult children aged up to 26 years old, if they are full-time students.

Everyone can also benefit from visa-free travel to anywhere in the Schengen area for up to 90 days in any 180-day timeframe.