Lisbon

October 2nd my temporary residency card is expiring, what comes next is why I haven't been as bullish/positive for Portugal and is extremely painful

Renewal process is simple, you log into government website, pay, confirm your address and new card will come to your mail.

The problem is, as I found out, they only plan to open renewal for cards expiring now - by end of year, and waiting times for the card to be delivered is 4-6 months right now, which I really hope is not true lol

So after my card expires and until government processes the renewal, for many months I'm:
- locked in Europe and have to cancel all travel plans outside of the country
- likely to loose access to every digital app, especially financial
- have to defend myself within portugal every time I show my residency card

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SEF now AIMA was completely nuked by prev gov. All processes had to change to a new org. Things were already bad, couple w mass migration. Perfect storm.

the craziest thing is that this process was taking a couple of weeks last september