Relatório Final do procedimento de concessão de autorização de residência para atividade de investimento pelo SEF (RELAT-122/2014, PI-21/2014)

IGAI (Inspectorate-General of Internal Administration) audit report on the SEF handling of ARI (golden visa) files, December 2014, with annex reproducing the visit notes (the PDF repeats the text). Recorded earlier: applications by SEF office and applicant type, pending applications (about 2,000), ARI fee revenue 2014 by office, jobs in one case. Now recorded: about 90% of applications filed at DRLVTA; usual processing time about 45 days; SIS checks about 20 days; about 300 approved files awaiting fee payment and biometrics; up to 100 ARI attendances a day at DRLVTA and a single pre-booking of about 20 at Cascais; two files handled at Cascais after mid-2013; Santarém applications by a Macau-Chinese and an Australian national (the South African remainder is not counted); DRLVTA staff on ARI (3 counter, 2 administrative, 2 renewals, 1 supervisor). The legal 60- and 30-day deadlines are rules. Individual case files (named persons, NIPC numbers) are not recorded under the dataset rules.