There Is No Passive-Income Permit - There Is a Residence Visa and a Figure in a Ministerial Order
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Trinidad and Tobago on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Trinidad and Tobago to Portugal · Residency on passive income
Portugal's Act does not create a permit for people living on their own money. What it creates is the residence visa, valid for two entries and four months, which exists so that its holder can apply for a residence permit once here; and the general conditions, of which one is possession of means of subsistence as defined by ministerial order. The Act sets no amount anywhere. A person living on a pension, rent or savings therefore enters on a residence visa granted for that purpose and is measured against a figure that is not in the statute.
At a glance
- A permit written for passive income
- None in the Act - the route is the residence visa and the general conditions
Chapter V of Lei n.º 23/2007 lists the residence permits and no article of it is addressed to living on one's own means.
- Residence visa
- Two entries, four months, to apply for the permit here
Article 58(2).
- Decision on the visa
- 60 days
Article 58(4), without prejudice to shorter periods elsewhere in the Act.
- What the visa already gives you
- A pre-authorisation with provisional tax, social security and health numbers
Article 58(6).
- The money figure
- Set by ministerial order under article 52(1)(d), not by the Act
The numbers are the article and paragraph of Lei n.º 23/2007 that defer it, not an amount.
Requirements
- A residence visa granted for the purpose
- The general conditions of article 77, including means of subsistence as defined by ministerial order
- Accommodation, and registration with social security where applicable
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Sem prejuízo das condições especiais aplicáveis, para a concessão da autorização de residência deve o requerente satisfazer os seguintes requisitos cumulativos: a) Posse de visto de residência válido, concedido para uma das finalidades previstas na presente lei para a concessão de autorização de residência, ou posse de visto para procura de trabalho; b) Inexistência de qualquer facto que, se fosse conhecido pelas autoridades competentes, devesse obstar à concessão do visto; c) Presença em território português, sem prejuízo do disposto no n.º 6 do artigo 58.º; d) Posse de meios de subsistência, tal como definidos pela portaria a que se refere a alínea d) do n.º 1 do artigo 52.º; e) Alojamento; f) Inscrição na segurança social, sempre que aplicável; g) Ausência de condenação por crime que em Portugal seja punível com pena privativa de liberdade de duração superior a um ano; h) Não se encontrar no período de interdição de entrada e de permanência em território nacional, subsequente a uma medida de afastamento; i) Ausência de indicação no SIS; j) Ausência de indicação no SII UCFE para efeitos de recusa de entrada e de permanência ou de regresso, nos termos dos artigos 33.º e 33.º-A.»The ten conditions. Paragraph (d) is the money one and it names an order rather than an amount.
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The Lisbon public prosecutor's legal database, which has carried consolidated Portuguese statutes in plain HTML for two decades. Each statute is served at a stable numeric address with its full amendment history at the head of the page, named act by act and dated.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
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Practical notes
The figure a reader actually wants is in a ministerial order made under article 52(1)(d), and that order has not been read. This record says where it is rather than guessing what it says.
The visa that carries this route is granted for a purpose, and which purpose is a matter for the consular post. The Act's list of residence visas does not include one named for passive income.
- consolidatesLei n.º 23/2007 (Lei de Estrangeiros), consolidated text, articles 67 to 126
Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Not the official gazette and not the authentic text: the Diário da República publishes that, and where the two differ the gazette governs. The consolidation is the office's own editorial work and the page does not say who made it or when it was last revised - only which amending acts it claims to carry. The site is served as ISO-8859-1 with the charset in a meta tag, so a fetch that assumes UTF-8 destroys every accented letter.
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