Temporary Stay Visa for Amateur Sports
🇵🇹 Portugal visas · Work
What it is
Temporary stay visa for amateur sports activity in Portugal. Temporary stay visa: allows entry and stay in Portugal for less than a year, valid for the entire stay, with multiple entries.
Key facts
- Category
- Work
- Duration
- Less than one year; valid for the entire stay, multiple entries.
- Processing time
- Up to 4 weeks
- Maximum validity
- 1 year
- Extendable
- Yes
- Path to permanent residence
- No
- Dependants
- No
- How to apply
- Mixed
- Health insurance
- Required
Standard figures for this route. Some applicants pay a reduced fee or none at all, so confirm your own case on the official page.
Fees
- Application fee (national visa fee (Order 229/2021))
- EUR 110
- Application fee (exempt from any visa fee)
- EUR 0
Key requirements
- National visa application form, signed
- Two recent passport photos
- Passport valid for 3 months beyond the intended return
- Criminal record certificate (applicants 16+), apostilled or legalised
- Proof of means of subsistence
- Valid travel insurance
- Written commitment from the sports federation or club
- Proof the activity is amateur
Working on this visa
Purpose limited to amateur (non-professional) sports activity certified by the sports federation; the club or sports association must take responsibility for lodging and health care (Lei Art 54(1)(e)). No employment right stated.
Bringing family
Family reunification is reserved to residence-permit holders (Art 98(1)); temp-stay visa is not a residence permit. Family may apply for their own accompanying-family temporary-stay visa (Art 54(1)(h)).
Money you must show
50% RMMG net = 460/mo; reducible via club liability term
Facts checked against the official source. Last updated 27 July 2026.