Work visa Portugal
Residency visa for highly qualified activity (including EU Blue Card)
Run by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (consular posts) and AIMA (Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum)
Professionals with a job contract, job promise or invitation in Portugal for highly qualified, teaching, research or cultural work.
- Job offer
- Required. A work contract, work promise or service contract, or an invitation from a higher education institution, research centre or recognised cultural body. For subordinate highly qualified work (art. 61-A), a contract or promise of at least 6 months.
- Language
- Not stated on the official page
- Education
- For a regulated profession, proof you can practise it in Portugal. For an unregulated profession, proof of high professional qualifications for the field in the contract.
- Work experience
- Not stated on the official page
- Government fee
- EUR 110 national visa processing fee.
- Processing time
- The deadline for deciding a residence visa is 60 days, except where the law says otherwise. You then apply to AIMA for a residence permit within the 4 month visa.
- Money you must show
- Means of subsistence for at least 12 months, which can come from the contract or a term of responsibility from the host. For art. 61-A the salary must be 1.5 times the average annual gross salary or three times the IAS (1.2 times or two times the IAS for professions in particular need). The euro amounts are not stated on the page.
- When and to whom you pay
- Paid to the consular post when you apply for the national visa.
Checked on 18 October 2026. What the page says
Read on vistos.mne.gov.pt on 2026-10-18: "A valid contract or a work promise, for a minimum period of six months, and for a salary of 1,5 times de annual gross salary, or three times de indexed value for social welfare support (IAS)"; fee page: "The fees for processing a national visa application is 110€." Another official page. Another official page. Another official page.