Applied for a Golden Visa, bought a house, still waiting for my visa after 3 years and now they closed my bank account

So the Golden Visa was basically a triple whammy of a scam. I started the process with a law firm called Legal Square who assured me it would be granted in a few months. It’s been **3 years** and:

1. A real estate company called Era Realty sold me a house which was illegally constructed, straight up fraud against the terms of the agreement, and of course Legal Square who did the due diligence and represented me completely forgot to check this basic level of work, and said everything was okay with the property purchase. Has wasted 2+ years trying to get all the documentation to resolve this. Never trust Era, they literally lie through their teeth.

2. The golden visa application has literally not even received a single response, I’ve had to follow up a dozen times, and each time they give some bullshit new deadline which gets changed again a couple months later. They have made me gather all my documents and submit twice now, and it has not moved an inch. Seems like the government made it up.

3. My bank account was closed because I supposedly don’t have the right visa, making paying bills on the house I was required to purchase for the visa a huge pain. Have also been scammed by electricians and painters who basically did no work and charged a ton for it.

I’ve now re-submitted a D2 visa, which means the lemon real estate investment was completely pointless, and probably straight up fraud from either the lawyer or the government. Pretty unbelievable levels of grifts going on across the board.

Please authenticate to join the conversation.

Upvoters
Status

In Review

Board
🇵🇹

Portugal

Date

9 months ago

Subscribe to post

Get notified by email when there are changes.