And the higher amount recorded in recent years and refers only to the first six months: 515,334 requests for nationality pending at the end of the first half of 2025.
And the higher amount recorded in recent years and refers only to the first six months: 515,334 requests for nationality pending at the end of the first half of 2025.
According to the updated data this Saturday at the Justice Portal, besides these, IRN had registered 121,460 requests for nationality entered, 92,257 granted and 3,649 rejected
Since 2020, services have registered the largest number of entries in 2022 (367,348)but the number of pending issues have increased consecutively.
Em 2023, the most recent year referred to in the most detailed data, There were 73,278 nationality attributions (ie, granted based on family bonds with Portuguese) and 41,393 Acquisitions following requests and 8,129 INDEFERIENCE.
In the same year, the nationality records by citizens of former Portuguese colonies total 1,332 and 73 losses of nationality were accounted for, whose reasons are not referred to.
Data from the Justice Portal also refer to the top five of countries of provenance of nationality acquisitions, led by Brazil (10,365). In the list, with reference to 2016, follow Cape Verde (3,922), Ukraine (3,249), Angola (1,937) and Guinea-Bissau (1,791).
On Friday, Presidential Minister António Leitão Amaro had already balanced the number of pending nationality requests, during the debate on the law of nationality.
According to the ruler, Of the more than 500,000 pending claims, only 15% concern original Portuguese, born abroad.
“Access and ownership of Portuguese citizenship cannot be facilitated, they cannot be traded,” because “nationality cannot be a transaction or transition, to get a passport and soon move to other European countries,” said the minister, who has considered that in recent years, “the connection required to the national community has been weakened and this has been the number of children, but not those of their children, but not those Portuguese “.
