| Portugal | 1 June 203510 years · counted from the permit | Lei 37/81, art. 6(1)(b) and art. 15(1) as amended by Lei Orgânica 1/2026; window of 12 years under art. 15(3)- This date rests on article 7(2). Your nationality proceeding was pending on 19 May 2026, so the previous text applies to it whole — the five-year period and the counting from the residence application together, not one without the other.
- Article 15(4), under which time spent waiting for the residence permit counted towards the period, was repealed on 19 May 2026. The clock starts at the permit, not at the application for it.
- Residence has been broken, so article 15(3) applies: periods are summed only if they fall inside a window of nine years for EU and Portuguese-speaking citizens, twelve for everyone else. The date above assumes they do.
- The seven years must be unbroken, and the Code offers no window inside which broken periods may be summed. A gap starts them again, so no date can be given from what you have entered.
- Three continuous years, not seven — article 5(1)(δ) gives the shorter period to nationals of an EU member state, to a spouse of a Greek WITH a child, to anyone with parental custody of a Greek-national child born in Greece, and to stateless persons. A spouse without a child does not qualify.
- This assumes your residence title is one of those listed in article 5(1)(ε) — the investor permit is, at item αθ. On any other valid title, temporary ones excepted, article 5(3) asks for twelve continuous years instead. The tool does not ask which title you hold, so it cannot rule that out.
- Temporary residence titles do not qualify at all (article 5(3)), and the list of qualifying titles at article 5(1)(ε) is exhaustive. The investor permit is on it, at item αθ.
- Whatever the earlier years look like, the twelve months immediately before the application must be continuous.
- With residence broken, the four-years-within-six arithmetic needs your presence year by year, which this tool deliberately does not ask for. No date is given rather than a confident wrong one.
- Time is one condition of several. Language, civics, good character, fees and the discretion of the deciding authority are not modelled here, and each can stop an application the calendar allows.
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| Greece | 1 June 20327 years · counted from the permit | Law 3284/2004, art. 5(1)(δ); qualifying titles art. 5(1)(ε), the investor permit at item αθ- This date rests on article 7(2). Your nationality proceeding was pending on 19 May 2026, so the previous text applies to it whole — the five-year period and the counting from the residence application together, not one without the other.
- Article 15(4), under which time spent waiting for the residence permit counted towards the period, was repealed on 19 May 2026. The clock starts at the permit, not at the application for it.
- Residence has been broken, so article 15(3) applies: periods are summed only if they fall inside a window of nine years for EU and Portuguese-speaking citizens, twelve for everyone else. The date above assumes they do.
- The seven years must be unbroken, and the Code offers no window inside which broken periods may be summed. A gap starts them again, so no date can be given from what you have entered.
- Three continuous years, not seven — article 5(1)(δ) gives the shorter period to nationals of an EU member state, to a spouse of a Greek WITH a child, to anyone with parental custody of a Greek-national child born in Greece, and to stateless persons. A spouse without a child does not qualify.
- This assumes your residence title is one of those listed in article 5(1)(ε) — the investor permit is, at item αθ. On any other valid title, temporary ones excepted, article 5(3) asks for twelve continuous years instead. The tool does not ask which title you hold, so it cannot rule that out.
- Temporary residence titles do not qualify at all (article 5(3)), and the list of qualifying titles at article 5(1)(ε) is exhaustive. The investor permit is on it, at item αθ.
- Whatever the earlier years look like, the twelve months immediately before the application must be continuous.
- With residence broken, the four-years-within-six arithmetic needs your presence year by year, which this tool deliberately does not ask for. No date is given rather than a confident wrong one.
- Time is one condition of several. Language, civics, good character, fees and the discretion of the deciding authority are not modelled here, and each can stop an application the calendar allows.
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| Malta | 1 June 20305 years · counted from the permit | Cap. 188 — twelve continuous months immediately before the application plus four years within the preceding six- This date rests on article 7(2). Your nationality proceeding was pending on 19 May 2026, so the previous text applies to it whole — the five-year period and the counting from the residence application together, not one without the other.
- Article 15(4), under which time spent waiting for the residence permit counted towards the period, was repealed on 19 May 2026. The clock starts at the permit, not at the application for it.
- Residence has been broken, so article 15(3) applies: periods are summed only if they fall inside a window of nine years for EU and Portuguese-speaking citizens, twelve for everyone else. The date above assumes they do.
- The seven years must be unbroken, and the Code offers no window inside which broken periods may be summed. A gap starts them again, so no date can be given from what you have entered.
- Three continuous years, not seven — article 5(1)(δ) gives the shorter period to nationals of an EU member state, to a spouse of a Greek WITH a child, to anyone with parental custody of a Greek-national child born in Greece, and to stateless persons. A spouse without a child does not qualify.
- This assumes your residence title is one of those listed in article 5(1)(ε) — the investor permit is, at item αθ. On any other valid title, temporary ones excepted, article 5(3) asks for twelve continuous years instead. The tool does not ask which title you hold, so it cannot rule that out.
- Temporary residence titles do not qualify at all (article 5(3)), and the list of qualifying titles at article 5(1)(ε) is exhaustive. The investor permit is on it, at item αθ.
- Whatever the earlier years look like, the twelve months immediately before the application must be continuous.
- With residence broken, the four-years-within-six arithmetic needs your presence year by year, which this tool deliberately does not ask for. No date is given rather than a confident wrong one.
- Time is one condition of several. Language, civics, good character, fees and the discretion of the deciding authority are not modelled here, and each can stop an application the calendar allows.
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| United Arab Emirates | No citizenship application existsEmirati nationality is granted by nomination, not applied for. There is no period to count towards. | Federal Law 17/1972 as amended — naturalisation by nomination- This date rests on article 7(2). Your nationality proceeding was pending on 19 May 2026, so the previous text applies to it whole — the five-year period and the counting from the residence application together, not one without the other.
- Article 15(4), under which time spent waiting for the residence permit counted towards the period, was repealed on 19 May 2026. The clock starts at the permit, not at the application for it.
- Residence has been broken, so article 15(3) applies: periods are summed only if they fall inside a window of nine years for EU and Portuguese-speaking citizens, twelve for everyone else. The date above assumes they do.
- The seven years must be unbroken, and the Code offers no window inside which broken periods may be summed. A gap starts them again, so no date can be given from what you have entered.
- Three continuous years, not seven — article 5(1)(δ) gives the shorter period to nationals of an EU member state, to a spouse of a Greek WITH a child, to anyone with parental custody of a Greek-national child born in Greece, and to stateless persons. A spouse without a child does not qualify.
- This assumes your residence title is one of those listed in article 5(1)(ε) — the investor permit is, at item αθ. On any other valid title, temporary ones excepted, article 5(3) asks for twelve continuous years instead. The tool does not ask which title you hold, so it cannot rule that out.
- Temporary residence titles do not qualify at all (article 5(3)), and the list of qualifying titles at article 5(1)(ε) is exhaustive. The investor permit is on it, at item αθ.
- Whatever the earlier years look like, the twelve months immediately before the application must be continuous.
- With residence broken, the four-years-within-six arithmetic needs your presence year by year, which this tool deliberately does not ask for. No date is given rather than a confident wrong one.
- Time is one condition of several. Language, civics, good character, fees and the discretion of the deciding authority are not modelled here, and each can stop an application the calendar allows.
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