GET PORTUGUESE CITIZENSHIP!
FOR DESCENDANTS OF SEPHARDIC JEWS
Recent government laws have made it much more difficult to apply for Portuguese citizenship and we are awaiting clarification from the government on their new conditions, such as “frequent travel to Portugal”, “property inheritance” or “company ownership”.
In the meantime, if you have parents or grandparents who were born in Spain or Spanish Morocco, you might qualify for Spanish citizenship. New details are coming out so contact our office for further information.
Thousands of Sephardic Jews around the world are dreaming about returning to the homeland that once expelled their ancestors and is now welcoming them with open arms. The applicable Portuguese Law states the following: “The Portuguese Government may grant nationality to descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews [over 18 years old] who demonstrate a traditional connection to a Community with Portuguese Sephardic origins, based on proven objective requirements of a connection with Portugal, such as family names, family language, direct or collateral ancestry.” In reality, Portugal is approving any applicant with ties to the Iberian peninsula through language, history, cultural and religious ties to the Sephardic Jews who, after leaving Portugal, due to religious persecution (1496-1821), maintained ties with “organized communities” that were typically Judeo-Spanish in their traditions, such as those that existed in Salonika and Turkey, North Africa and parts of the Middle East before being decimated by the Holocaust or migrating to other countries in the past centuries.
Read more about it:
Portuguese Citizenship for Sephardic Jews
Portuguese Citizenship for Sephardic Jews
See : Portuguese Citizenship
