Length of time to wait for confirmation/process number

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• CarlosASP

  August 8

  @newapplicant

  Where did you send it to?

  if you sent it to Lisbon, it will take several months to get application number and password.

  Lisbon is sending out now info for applications which arrived there in late October 2024.
• newapplicant

  August 9

  I sent it to CRC Lisbon (Rua Rodrigo da Fonseca, 200) - the address mentioned in the form. I also paid by credit card online, so I don’t have a way of tracking that they definitely are processing it (I am assuming if I didn’t pay online, would be able to see when they took the payment once the processed the application).

  Just so I understand, are you saying that there is a big backlog even to initially process/add applications to the system? Or is the issue that there is a gap between them initially processing/adding to the system and then sending a confirmation/application number?
• CarlosASP

  August 9

  @newapplicant

  Lisbon now has a big delay in sending out application number and password. It is not the first time it happens; if I am not mistaken in 2021 (or 2022) it was taking 6 months... then it improved, went down to a few weeks, But since late 2024 it has ballooned to the current 8 or more months.

  That does not really impact total processing time as applications just sit there for several months waiting for their turn to be analyzed.

  There is a topic in forum where people from time to time share tables sent by CRC Lisbon describing which month they are currently analyzing for the different types of application. Yours would be 1C, maiores (over 18 years) and via "transcrição".

  Below is one table shared in July 2025; they were looking at applications which arrived in Lisbon in Feb 2022. So you still likely have more than 3 years before some resolution.

  Things tend to move even slower than usual in July/August as a number of employees take their summer vacations, so I do not think it will have changed much since :

  https://forum.cidadaniaportuguesa.com/uploads/363/WT8Q82CXZGMO.jpg

  Follow this thread as people will update there:

  https://forum.cidadaniaportuguesa.com/discussion/26989/status-de-andamento-de-processos-crc-lisboa-e-acp/p20

  Just be careful not to get mixed up with tables from ACP (in Porto) where 1C applications for people over 18 move a lot faster than in Lisbon (it takes one year for final resolution there). That is why I asked where you sent it.

  [but before you get frustrated, until recently ACP could only handle applications if PT parent was born in PT, UK, European Union or Brazil. Not sure if now they can handle from other places too]
• newapplicant

  August 10

  Hi,

  Thanks for the response. Just a bit more background and then a few clarification questions, if I may:

  • Both my parents are now Portuguese citizens (and their birth certificates recorded in Lisbon/in the registry). When I spoke to the Portuguese embassy in London, they said that my parents would be treated as "Portuguese from birth", rather than becoming Portuguese half-way through their life

  Questions:

  • Given my parents are "Portuguese from birth", does that change whether my process is "transcrição" to "inscrição"?
  • Secondly based on the above point (parents being "Portuguese from birth" and their birth and marriage certificates registered in Lisbon, would I be better sending off a new application to ACP Porto?
  • If I do send a new application to ACP Porto, I don't know whether I could re-use the same application form/payment and re-send to Porto?
  • Note that I was born in India (so Indian birth certificate) - would this have an impact on which office I send it to?
• CarlosASP

  August 10

  @newapplicant

  I can only answer first question:

  Given my parents are "Portuguese from birth", does that change whether my process is "transcrição" to "inscrição"?

  "Transcrição" is for applications submitted by mail

  "Inscrição" are those submitted in person at a "conservatória"

  [as most people in this forum have BR or PT born ancestors. and at ACP there is no big difference in processing times for each method, this issue does not really come up]

  As mentioned before, ACP - until recently - could only process applications if the PT ancestor was actually born in PT, UK, European Union or Brazil. If the parent was physically born somewhere else (your case), only CRC Lisbon could handle it. Place where PT birth certificate was issued was irrelevant; what mattered was place of birth.

  I think, but not sure, that there was some change and now ACP can also handle 1C applications regardless of where PT parent was born.

  Maybe someone else in forum can also that part and your other questions

  @ecoutinho @texaslady
• newapplicant

  September 14 editado September 14

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  Hi @CarlosASP,

  Thanks for your responses. I have finally got the code (so it took roughly 3 months for me to receive it), so I am glad that at least this part of the process is complete (but I know there are still several years to go!!). I have a few questions about the confirmation PDF that they sent (see screenshot attached):

  • Why is the Valor pago 0,00€? I paid online and used the form they emailed me. Should I contact them about this?
  • There are 2 items that are unticked (if I have translated it properly, I think they are the ID document of the legal representative and the hospital document). I didn't use a legal advisor so that is fine. But did I need to send some sort of hospital document? If so, this will be an issue as the hospital was a small private hospital that no longer exists.

  Thanks in advance!
• CarlosASP

  September 14

  @newapplicant

  I would not worry about either issue.

  It is just the weird format that IRN has in its forms...

  A lot of people in forum have reported this zero payment information and no subsequent problem with that.

  And the hospital info is something related to applications on behalf of newborns.