See when your turn comes in the nationality process

The official IRN consultation tells you which stage an application is in: submitted, under review, awaiting decision, completed. What it does not tell you is when. There is, however, public information that helps to estimate it: Portuguese registry offices reply by email stating the submission date of the applications each department is reviewing that month.

That information circulates loose, in cropped screenshots with no registry office and no reference month — and a screenshot without context is worse than none, because it looks like data. nacionalidade.help gathers those emails, keeps every reading with the month declared by the source, and organises everything by queue: the combination of registry office, legal ground, registration route, age group and stage.

With the history in place, an honest calculation becomes possible: compare the date your application was submitted with the date the registry office reported reviewing, and measure the distance between the two. When there are enough readings of the same queue, the site adds the pace of recent months and returns a window — never a single date, because the published data does not allow that precision.

This section describes public queues. It does not replace official information about an individual application and it is not legal advice. A queue does not reveal the document request, opinion or enquiry that may have taken a specific application out of submission order.