{"id":2385,"date":"2026-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felipes41.sg-host.com\/nationality-law-being-born-in-portugal-will-no-longer-be-the-same-starting-point\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:15:15","slug":"lei-da-nacionalidade-nascer-em-portugal-deixara-de-ser-o-mesmo-ponto-de-partida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiolegal.com\/en\/lei-da-nacionalidade-nascer-em-portugal-deixara-de-ser-o-mesmo-ponto-de-partida\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationality Law: Being born in Portugal will no longer be the same starting point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth text in a series of informational notes on the decree amending the Nationality Law, already approved but not yet in force. In previous texts, I addressed Portuguese Nationality Act: amendments approved \u2014 what changes?; End of the nationality pathway for parents and ascendants of Portuguese citizens and Civil partnership and nationality: what is changing?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fiolegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/121857_dff4bb3020664303957c85db2ece2595_mv2.webp\" alt=\"Uma fotografia documental realista de um beb\u00e9 rec\u00e9m-nascido a dormir num carrinho numa cal\u00e7ada tradicional portuguesa, simbolizando o nascimento e integra\u00e7\u00e3o em Portugal.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>From territorial connection to the duration of parents\u2019 residence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Until now, the rule was relatively clear.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A child born in Portugal to foreign parents not in the service of their respective State could acquire nationality by origin if, at the time of birth, one parent:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 legally resided in Portugal; or<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 had been residing in Portugal, regardless of status, for at least one year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This model corresponded to a mitigated ius soli: it was not enough to be born in Portugal, but a minimal connection to the territory (translated into one year of residence) was sufficient for legal recognition of that belonging.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In practice, it allowed for the legal integration of those who:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 are born in Portugal<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 grow up in Portugal<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 and build their lives here from the outset<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The amendment approved by the Portuguese Parliament on April 1 and sent for promulgation by the President on April 12 shifts this starting point.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The requirement is no longer \u201cone year\u201d or \u201cresidence regardless of status.\u201d It becomes five years of legal residence of one parent in Portugal at the time of birth.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Without going into the technical detail of all provisions, the direction is clear:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 access to nationality at birth is no longer based on a minimal connection (such as one year of residence)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fiolegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/121857_e95907d72de941e5a1ffd0c71baf6fb0_mv2.webp\" alt=\"Uma fotografia documental de um progenitor a segurar a m\u00e3o de uma crian\u00e7a perto do port\u00e3o de uma escola portuguesa, destacando a mochila da crian\u00e7a e a integra\u00e7\u00e3o social.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 and instead depends on significantly longer periods of parental residence, in line with the broader tightening of legal residence requirements for acquiring nationality<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does this mean in practice, if and when the new regime enters into force?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It means that many children who:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 are born in Portugal<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 live, study, and socialize in Portugal<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>may no longer have access to nationality at birth, even when their entire lives are rooted here.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The criterion shifts away from a real connection to the territory. It becomes the formal duration of the parents\u2019 legal residence.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>What changes with the new decree<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The role of nationality changes. From an instrument of early integration of the second generation, to the result of a prolonged integration process of the parents.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This has clear consequences:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 delayed legal integration of children who already socially belong<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 increased dependence on the parents\u2019 migration status<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 more grey areas and legal uncertainty<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 potential fragmentation between children born in the same context but with different administrative paths<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The system moves away from a model that recognizes belonging based on social reality and shifts toward a more restrictive model, grounded in formal and long-term temporal criteria.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The result is a system in which \u201ctime in Portugal\u201d is measured primarily through the parents\u2019 residence status, and far less through the lived experience of those born and raised in the country.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fiolegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/121857_582768c9e7a3499882974d6840052bd1_mv2.webp\" alt=\"Uma fotografia em grande plano de m\u00e3os a segurar uma certid\u00e3o de nascimento portuguesa ao lado de um passaporte estrangeiro, ilustrando o contraste legal entre a crian\u00e7a e os pais.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>A reversal of legislative trend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Over more than forty years, the rule for those born in Portugal to foreign parents has oscillated between greater openness and strong restriction.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In its original 1981 version, the Nationality Law already provided for this pathway but required parents to have habitually resided in Portugal for at least six years and required the individual to declare their intention to become Portuguese, a clearly restrictive model of mitigated <em>ius soli<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s and early 2000s, this declaratory logic remained, combined with long residence periods with valid permits (6 or 10 years, depending on the parents\u2019 origin).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In 2006, the legislator reduced the requirement to five years of legal residence of one parent but still required an explicit declaration of intent, maintaining a high barrier to entry.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A real shift only occurred in 2018 and was consolidated in the current framework: first, reducing the requirement to two years of legal residence and introducing an \u201copt-out\u201d model (a person born in Portugal is Portuguese by origin unless they declare otherwise), and later lowering the requirement to one year of residence of one parent, even allowing residence \u201cregardless of status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The decree now approved by Parliament reverses this trajectory: it again requires five years of legal residence of one parent at birth and reintroduces a declaratory logic (\u201cif they declare that they wish to be Portuguese\u201d), aligning with the 2006 framework and representing a regression compared to the recent trend of early recognition of belonging for those born, raised, and living in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that the safeguard against statelessness remains: a child born in Portugal who does not possess another nationality continues to be considered Portuguese by origin. The impact of this reform falls mainly on those who, in theory, hold another \u201cpaper nationality\u201d but whose lives are entirely rooted in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fiolegal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/121857_90cb53276013477ca99490d7c986fde1_mv2.webp\" alt=\"Uma fotografia documental vibrante de um grupo diverso de crian\u00e7as a jogar futebol numa pra\u00e7a ensolarada em Portugal, representando a verdadeira integra\u00e7\u00e3o social e perten\u00e7a.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>The underlying question<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean, today, to \u201cbelong\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And to what extent does it make sense to deny nationality to those who are born, grow up and live in Portugal based on a temporal criterion that does not depend on the child, but on the parents\u2019 administrative trajectory?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When the law diverges from lived reality, the risk is not only legal. It is also social.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth text in a series of informational notes on the decree amending the Nationality Law, already approved but not yet in force. 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