About us
Portivoa is an independent guide for people who are moving to Portugal, already living here or visiting. We publish in English, Russian and Ukrainian, and we try to answer practical questions in the order people actually face them: which documents, which office, which website.
What we are — and what we are not
We are an editorial project, not a government service, a law firm or an immigration agency. Our guides are general information. We link to the official source for every procedure, and when an official source and our guide disagree, the official source is right.
How we work
- Official sources first. Facts about procedures, documents and deadlines come from official Portuguese websites. Read more in how we check information.
- Dates you can see. Every guide shows when it was published and when its facts were last checked.
- No invented details. We don't publish fees, deadlines, phone numbers or addresses we could not confirm. Where something changes often, we flag it so you know to check.
How the site is funded
In the future the site may carry advertising and paid listings in the services directory. They will always be clearly labelled as advertising and kept separate from editorial content. Advertisers never decide what our guides say. See advertising.
Contact
Questions, corrections or ideas: see the contact page.