Tech Visa
Tech visa:
Portuguese Tech Visa is beneficial and efficient in granting residence visas to Non-European highly qualified professionals in technology. The Portuguese Government specially launches this program to attract extraordinary foreign professionals to the country. It is the Portuguese economic ministry strategy to make Portugal a more fruitful destination for foreign investments so that they can create more jobs & wealth. Under this program, those Portuguese companies want to hire highly qualified workers/staff from non-European countries, and then they need to apply to this TechVisa program.
Besides, those innovative & technological companies that wish to hire foreign technical professionals should be certified by IAPMEI & fulfil all the requirements. Only certified companies are eligible to employ third-country professional workers as per their needs—an A-List of accredited companies found on the IAPMEI website https://www.iapmei.pt/.
To apply for a tech visa or residence permit under this program, companies have to comply with all highly skilled/qualified worker’s requirements, following article 5 (1) (2) of Inter-ministerial Ordinance 328/2018 of December 19, amended by Inter-ministerial Ordinance 99/2019 of April 4.
Documents required for Tech Visa:
- Work contract, or service provider contract
- Statement of responsibility provided by a certified company as per law
- Professional certificate for highly qualified professions
- The worker’s hosting company must sign the proof of means.
- Proficiency certificate in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish
- No criminal record certificate
- Five-year experience in a specialised technical field
- Bachelor’s education or equivalent level – level 6, according to ISCED 2011.
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