Your Portuguese citizenship process is stuck — and there is a path for that to change.
You submitted the citizenship application, you have the process number and the tracking code, and the decision never comes. It is not just an impression: a citizenship process stuck for many months, with no decision and no explanation, is a situation the law already addresses — and for which a path already exists.
Assess my caseSigns your citizenship process is stuck
- —Many months have passed since you submitted the application, with no decision
- —The tracking code always shows the same stage, with no movement
- —You never received a request for additional documents that would explain the delay
- —You already contacted the registry office and the reply gave no date
- —You do not know whether something is missing on your end, or whether the process is simply stalled
There is a path for a stuck citizenship process
This path runs through court, and in Portugal only a lawyer admitted to the Bar can bring the action and represent someone in judicial proceedings. Advisory firms and consultancies, however good they are, cannot. That is the difference between waiting a little longer and bringing the request to a decision.
Assess my caseWhat the firm does for a stuck citizenship process
Review of your process
We check the history of your application and what is already known about its progress, and return the framing of your case in writing.
Court proceedings
When the case fits the judicial path, the firm files and conducts the action before the competent court, from start to first-instance decision.
Written updates
Relevant developments in the process reach you in writing, on your own time and in your own time zone, with no need to travel to Portugal.
Why Fluxia Law
In immigration law since 2021
More than 1,200 people already served by the firm, across recognition of foreign decisions and citizenship proceedings.
100% digital
No travel, no queues: everything in writing and remote, from wherever you are.
Verifiable
Bar registration number 62399L, checkable on the Bar Association's portal by anyone, at any time.
Have not submitted the citizenship application yet? Start with the free Portuguese citizenship assessment. Want to see the paths and the benefits of Portuguese citizenship.
Questions from people with a stuck process
It is not what should happen. The law sets a deadline for the Administration to decide, and a wait far beyond that deadline, with no explanation, is a situation for which a dedicated path exists. We assess your case to say, in writing, whether it fits.
No. The firm works entirely in writing and remotely, from wherever you are.
It is. Someone who has not yet submitted the application starts through that path, which has its own framing. This page is for those who already submitted and are stuck.
No lawyer can promise a timeline or an outcome — the profession's rules of conduct require this. What is assessed is whether your case fits the available path, and that is in your process.
The initial assessment has no cost. The fee for the service, if your case fits, comes in writing, together with the framing of your process.