The principles used to organise PIMA’s information, identify its sources and handle requests for correction.
Key considerations
- Primary sources support legal statements.
- Legislation, administrative guidance and interpretation are clearly distinguished.
- Corrections should identify the page, the disputed statement and the supporting evidence.
Purpose and scope
PIMA provides general information about Portuguese investment residence and related legal questions. The aim is to help readers understand the framework, locate authoritative material and prepare focused questions for the relevant professional. Content is not a determination of an individual’s eligibility or a substitute for examining their documents and circumstances.
Residence permission, investment regulation, tax treatment and nationality are treated as separate subjects. Meeting a condition in one regime does not establish compliance with another. An investment description is not a personal recommendation, an offer of securities or a promise of a financial or immigration outcome.
Publishing responsibility
Aliança Portuguesa para a Migração por Investimento is the publisher and operator of this website. Publication details link readers to the Alliance and to these editorial standards. Individual authors and professional reviewers are credited for their actual contributions when those details are available.
A substantive update date records a change to the explanation or scope of a page. A source-check date records a check of the supporting material. Changes to menus, layout or search metadata do not by themselves reset the legal source-check date. The two language versions should carry equivalent explanations and dates.
Selection and use of sources
Legal explanations give priority to legislation published in the Diário da República and, where relevant, European Union legal sources. Administrative information is linked to the responsible authority, such as AIMA, the Tax and Customs Authority, Justiça or the CMVM. A secondary account can help identify an issue, but should not replace an available primary source for a material legal proposition.
References identify the instrument or official resource and, where useful, the relevant article. Readers should be able to distinguish an original publication from a consolidated text, a historical version, a guidance document or a court decision. Linking to an authority does not imply its endorsement of PIMA.
Legal status, dates and uncertainty
A proposal, a parliamentary vote, a published law and an operative rule are different stages. Explanations should identify which stage is being discussed and any relevant effective date or transitional provision. General rules should not be presented as applying automatically to every pending or existing file.
Where official guidance and legislative text differ, or the practical application remains uncertain, the distinction should be made explicit. A published court decision should be described in its factual and procedural context; its outcome is not a promise that another applicant will obtain the same result.
Review dates and language
A source-check date records when material was checked for the page. It does not mean that every linked authority has updated its own content, that the page is monitored continuously or that an independent lawyer has reviewed it. Any professional review should be identified separately only when it has actually taken place.
English explanations and European Portuguese content are intended to convey the same substance. Translations of legal concepts are explanatory. The legally applicable Portuguese text and authoritative EU versions should be consulted where exact wording affects a decision. If the language versions diverge materially, readers are invited to flag the passage.
Requesting a correction
Send an editorial correction to editorial@pima.com.pt. Include the page address, the exact statement at issue, a concise explanation and a link to the official source or other relevant evidence. Indicate whether the issue concerns a factual error, an outdated rule, a translation, a broken reference or an unclear distinction.
Please do not send passports, criminal record certificates, financial statements or other sensitive case documents in a correction request. A correction channel is for editorial accuracy, rather than individual case management. An acknowledgement or correspondence about a correction does not create a professional engagement.
Professional introductions and editorial content
Information pages should explain legal conditions without ranking individual funds or suggesting that a professional introduction guarantees an outcome. Any commercial relationship relevant to a recommendation or contributed article should be disclosed clearly. A source citation should reflect its evidential value, not imply a partnership.
Material corrections should be reflected in the affected passage and its source information. Significant changes should make clear what has changed, while ordinary typographical corrections need not be presented as legal developments. Reader reports are welcome even when the precise correction requires further verification.
