Article 6(8)
How to follow this case
- Confirm the article and the registry office before comparing dates.
- Check the full calendar to see the history of this queue.
- Use the official IRN consultation to find out the actual situation of an application.
What this page follows
The site organises the dates registry offices publish for this queue. The publication does not confirm the individual stage of your application and does not replace the official consultation.
When there are enough readings, the estimate compares your submission date with the date the registry office reported it is reviewing.
How to read the date published for this case
The date a registry office publishes is the submission date of the applications the sector is working on in that reference month — it is not a completion date or a forecast of a decision. When the email says “second half of March 2024”, it is saying the sector has reached the applications submitted in that window.
The comparison this site makes is a subtraction between two dates: the date your application was submitted and the date published for the queue. The result is the distance between them, in months. If the published date has not yet reached yours, there is a gap still to cover; if it has passed, the queue is ahead of your submission. Neither of those two sentences says anything about what happened to a specific application.
Registry offices state that applications are reviewed in order of submission date, within the relevant sector, according to the legal basis invoked. That order is what makes the comparison useful at all — and it is also why picking the wrong queue ruins the result, even with the arithmetic done right.
Where this reading stops being valid
A queue describes a group; you are one case. Document requests, requests for clarification, formal opinions and checks take individual applications out of submission order, and none of that shows up in a queue publication. That is why this site never states that an application is under review, has been decided, or will be completed on a given date.
On top of that, the reference month of the email is already in the past by the time the message arrives, not every queue is published every month, and a redistribution of batches between services can make the published date move backwards. The site shows those gaps and reversals instead of smoothing them over with estimates.
To confirm the actual stage of an application — submitted, under review, awaiting decision or completed — consult the official information from the Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado (IRN).
Common mistakes when reading these dates
- Confusing the date published for the queue with the actual stage of an individual application.
- Reading the absence of a recent reading as proof that an application has not moved.
- Assuming the article alone guarantees legal eligibility.
Frequently asked questions
Does the site follow Article 6(8)?
Yes, whenever a registry office publishes for that queue. The page organises the public date; confirm a specific application through the relevant official information.
Why might the estimate not appear?
The estimate depends on enough history and on dates published regularly. Without that, the site shows the comparison it has instead of inventing a deadline.