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Visa Response Timeline?

7 years ago
Hi, our family of 4 is scheduled to move to Portugal June 18. We live in Florida so we're working through the DC consulate for residence visas. I originally sent an email inquiry and I got back a set of directions that included that we should apply "at least" 3 months early. I had everything ready so the application arrived at the consulate Feb. 1. On April 26 I got an email that they needed the official airbnb receipt for the address on the schengen visa form (the original directions only asked for an address). I sent the receipt which is for a one week stay and said if they needed a longer one I could provide that. I got a response back that said "longer is better" so I went out and reserved another rental for an additional month. I sent an inquiry this week asking if everything was OK or if they needed more documentation and didn't get a reply at all.

When I read the statute translation from the SEF website article 58 says "Without prejudice to shorter time limits established in this Act, the period to issue a decision on the application for a residence visa is 60 days." so I wasn't expecting it to take this long and our departure date is looming. Has anyone else had it take this long? Thanks.

Heather

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