Two Regimes Reach Portugal From Outside, and Only One of Them Reaches This Corpus
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Saint Lucia 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 Saint Lucia to Portugal · Residency under a regional treaty
Portugal belongs to two movement regimes. The European Union's reaches nationals of member states, of the European Economic Area and of Switzerland, and nobody in this corpus. The other is the Mobility Agreement of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, and the Act gives it a permit of its own: article 87-A lets a national of a state covered by the Agreement who holds a residence visa apply inside Portugal for a CPLP residence permit, with the criminal record pulled by the service. Brazil is the only state of this corpus inside the Agreement, so for everyone else in the region the answer is that no regional treaty reaches them.
At a glance
- A regional movement treaty that reaches Latin America
- Only the CPLP Agreement, and only for Brazil
Article 87-A of Lei n.º 23/2007 is the Portuguese permit under it.
- The Union regime
- Reaches member states, the European Economic Area and Switzerland
- What the CPLP permit requires
- A residence visa, and an application made inside Portugal
- What the Act does not contain
- The Agreement's membership, which is a Community instrument
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Saint Lucia
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
«Os cidadãos nacionais de Estados abrangidos pelo Acordo CPLP que sejam titulares de visto de residência, podem requerer em território nacional, junto da AIMA, IP, autorização de residência CPLP. 2 - A concessão da autorização de residência prevista no número anterior depende, com as necessárias adaptações, da observância das condições de concessão de visto de residência e de autorização de residência CPLP. 3 - Nos casos previstos no número anterior, para efeitos de emissão da autorização de residência, os serviços competentes consultam oficiosamente o registo criminal português do requerente.»The CPLP permit, which is the only treaty-based route in this Act that reaches anyone in this corpus.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
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
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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Practical notes
The Agreement itself is not read here. What is recorded is the Portuguese permit made for it.
For every nationality in this corpus except Brazil, this record is the answer that there is nothing: the ordinary routes on the work, study and income records are all that applies.
- consolidatesLei n.º 23/2007 (Lei de Estrangeiros), consolidated text, articles 67 to 126
Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa
About this source
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
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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