Visas in Ericeira

Good to Know

• The 90/180-day visa-free allowance is a Schengen-wide total, not per country — any days spent in Spain or elsewhere in Schengen before or after your Portugal stay count against the same 90 days.
• Check your passport's issue date, not just its expiry date — Portugal requires it to have been issued within the last 10 years, which has caught some travelers with technically 'valid' passports off guard.
• ETIAS (a low-cost online pre-travel authorization) is expected to become mandatory for visa-exempt nationals sometime in late 2026, but the launch has been delayed before — don't assume it's required yet without checking closer to your trip.
• If you want to stay longer than 90 days in Ericeira or elsewhere in Portugal, you'll need to apply for a long-stay visa (such as the D7 or D8 Digital Nomad Visa) before your visa-free window runs out — this is not something you can convert to on arrival.
• Portugal's D8 visa is a national scheme — there's no Ericeira-specific version, so all the income, savings, and document rules apply the same as in Lisbon or Porto.
• The old low-tax NHR regime that made Portugal famous among nomads has effectively closed to new arrivals; most remote workers now pay standard progressive Portuguese income tax once they cross the 183-day residency threshold, so budget for that rather than assuming a special tax break.
• You cannot use Portuguese clients as your primary income source to qualify for the D8 — the visa is specifically for income earned from outside Portugal.
• Start the NIF (Portuguese tax number) and Portuguese bank account process early, since both are prerequisites for almost every other step of the application.