Can a Brazilian citizen with Portugese residency return to Portugal with a passport that will expire less than a month from the boarding date?
My girlfriend, who is a Brazilian citizen resident in Portugal, came to visit me in London, and she managed to come in with her visitor visa (6months) so she decided to stay for more than 3 months. Then, coronavirus happened, cancelled flights and all...
Now her passport is about to expire. Can she return to Portugal with her passport that's is valid for less than a month (from the boarding date that we are looking to book the ticket), heading back to the country where she's been living for the last 10 years so she can renew it there?
Addition information:
The Brazilian consulate here in the UK is on a "emergencies only" working scheme, don't know if that would be her case, so we're not able to renew her passaport here at this moment.
She lives in Portugal (But she still has her nationality process going, she still has a Brazilian passport, so she has to renew it at a brazilian embassy/consulate.). The Brazilian consulate in Portugal can renew her passport as their working schemes are different there.
She has a visa, ("Cartao de residencia", a residence card in a literal translation), and she can offer the air company proof of address and all (bank statements etc...) The only thing is her actual passport, as her nationality process still underway she cant yet get a Portuguese passport, but she's been living there for more than 10 years now (The whole process for her nationality was delayed because of stupid family decisions).
Best Answer
Timatic, the database which airlines use to verify passenger travel documents, tells me that Brazilian citizens who are residents of Portugal can fly to Portugal at any time up to and including the expiry date of the passport.
- Passports and other documents accepted for entry issued to residents of Portugal must be valid on arrival.
In addition to the passport, the passenger also needs to provide proof of residence in Portugal. This will be the cartão de residência, the common EU format residence card. It is red and blue and has a bull and stars above the photo. The citizen card will not be shown to the airline in this scenario.
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Timatic, the database which airlines use to verify passenger travel documents, tells me that citizens of Portugal can fly to Portugal with a valid national ID card in lieu of a passport. The cartão de cidadão issued to citizens of Portugal is indeed that national ID card. To be valid for travel, it should have three lines of machine readable text that begins with: "I<PRT". When checking in to the airline, the passenger should declare their citizenship as Portugal, not Brazil, and should not show the Brazilian passport.
However, very similar cards are also issued to some foreigners, particularly Brazilian nationals. These do not have a machine readable section on the reverse side, and instead show the text: "NÃO SERVE DE DOCUMENTO DE VIAGEM / NOT VALID AS A TRAVEL DOCUMENT". If her card is marked as not valid for travel, then she will have to travel on her Brazilian passport.
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A Schengen residence permit (título de residência) (listed here) exempts one from the ordinary extended passport validity requirement, at least when one returns to the country of issuance of the permit.
She will have to present a valid cartão de residencia (likely a red-blue-red card) and that's the only document the airlines will accept for sure. She can return to Portugal as long as her passport is valid. If her passport expires, she should ask for consular assistance in obtaining an emergency passport.
A cartão de cidadão for Brazillian citizens will likely not be accepted, except perhaps a Portugese airline that's familiar with it.
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