Tomás, you might want to check with a different consular official... As I read the Lei da Nacionalidade, and as summarized in the excerpt below my signature, taken from the site of the Ministro da Administração *Interna*, you don't have to meet a residency requirement if you are applying on the basis of being the grandchild of a citizen who never lost Portuguese citizenship.
David da Silva Cornell Nascido no estrangeiro com um ascendente do 2.º grau que não tenha perdido a nacionalidade portuguesa. - Certidão do registo de nascimento do interessado; - Certidões dos registos de nascimento do ascendente em 2.º grau da linha recta de nacionalidade portuguesa e do progenitor de que dele for descendente; - Documento comprovativo de que conhece suficientemente a língua portuguesa, nos termos da lei. - Certificados do registo criminal emitido pelos serviços competentes portugueses, do país da naturalidade, bem com dos países onde tenha tido residência e tenha residência. O interessado poderá ser dispensado de apresentar o registo criminal português. *http://www.nacionalidade.sef.pt/duvidas.html#a6*<http://www.nacionalidade.sef.pt/duvidas.html#a6> On Friday, December 6, 2013 1:00:09 AM UTC-5, Tomas Leal wrote: > Yes, we did have this discussion some time ago--I was part of that > discussion because I had gotten the information and had spoken with the > Portuguese consul at that time in San Francisco. I have recently spoken > with the current consul, who confirmed my understanding. > > The European Union standard, to which all member countries have been > coming into alignment with, stipulates that citizen extends to the child of > a citizen. Portugal has a provision for the grandchild of a citizen. I am a > grandchild, so I qualify but I must meet additional criteria: > > - Residency of three years > - Clean criminal record > - Satisfactory score on the Portuguese language exam. > > Because I have lived in the Azores for 12 weeks a year since 2009, I was > able to get a certificate from the junta presidente of my freguesia > stipulating I had spent "a major part of each year" in the country. This > coming year, I will be there for an even longer period. I am studying with > a Portuguese native who was a teacher while living in Angola and who has an > arrangement with the Portuguese government to act as a teacher in the U.S. > The language exam is my only hurdle remaining. > > BTW, I already have European Union citizenship and passport through an > Irish grandparent, which I got in 1987, just before Ireland brought its > laws into alignment with the EU standards. The window closed six months > after I got my citizenship, so I was lucky. Thus, I can live and work > anywhere in the EU. To qualify for a residency card, I need to spend more > than 90 consecutive days (the maximum allowed without a residency card), > and I will qualify in 2014. > > Tomás Leal > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
