29/11/2023
Detailed write-up on the process of Portugal🇵🇹 application.
Tuition :450k naira to 2million
Do you know you can move to Portugal next year September if you follow the instructions?
1: First of all, Portugal only accepts Bsc cos they're having issues with the body that verifies HND but if you're a HND holder and want to go to Portugal, you need to start your process on time. I know someone who have successfully completed his verification and applied for visa using HND,
That said, for Bsc holders, need to legalise your documents at the Ministry of Education and Foreign Affairs .
The documents you need to legalize are;
Birth certificate
Waec or Neco
Bsc certificate
Bsc transcript
Marriage certificate (if you're married)
Children's birth certificate (if you have kids)
Note: if you're planning on moving with family at the same time, it's best you start the verification at the embassy early cos academic verification takes about 10-12 weeks while marriage certificate, birth certificate takes about 12-16 weeks so that earlier the better.
Once your documents are done at both ministries, you proceed to the embassy for legalisation, Bsc and transcript. I can’t say any amount now cos of the exchange rate at the moment, costs increase according to the conversation rate. Legalisation at the embassy takes about 10-12 weeks, where it goes to NUC, your school and back to the embassy.
The tuition fee for Portugal is from 1000 - 7000 euros for masters and Ph.D. depending on the school and course.
Still, on tuition fees, you’re to deposit 10-50% of your fees before visa applications. The highest our 30 successful candidates paid was 2000euro upfront, lowest is €450
For visa applications, Portugal has it cut out for applicants in the significance that you can use anyone as a sponsor as long as they can provide you with their bank statement, sponsorship letter, and means of identification. But if you don’t plan on using a sponsor, a single applicant can have a minimum of 5 to 6 million naira.
For this year’s application, the least amount for POF was about 5.7 million naira. I know that’s amazing, but by next year, please you’ll need more money for POF cos of the exchange rate.
We had someone we applied for a PhD program, the tuition fee is €2000 per year and deposited less than €700 to reserve a seat.
Visa Fee;
When the embassy resumed national visas in June, the visa fee as of then was 55,561 naira as of June/July but now the visa fee is about 93,000 naira obviously by next year, it will increase. The visa fee is currently 90 euro.
This year we successfully secured admission and assisted with visa applications for over 20 people. We also got one successful PhD admission on the 8th of Sept.
Do you know Portugal now supports travelling with family at the same time? If you’re a family looking at migrating to Portugal the average POF for the the main applicant is about 5 million naira, adult dependant 4 million, and children dependant about 2-3 million naira.
One thing about Japa is planning, if you’re interested in migrating to Portugal next year, you should start the processing now so that by next year, you apply for a visa straight up.
Ps: As I stated earlier, the first step is to legalise your documents at the Ministry of Education and Foreign Affairs, if you need assistance with that and also embassy assistance, you can message me so we kick start immediately.
And please before you make move make sure Portugal ticks all the boxes in your japa need. (Salary, Career dev etc)