Article 6(7)
How to follow this case
- See the date the registry office reported it is reviewing for this legal basis.
- Compare it with your submission date using the estimate.
- When several queues are associated with the case, the full calendar helps check each one separately.
What this case is
This is the legal basis for descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews. From the point of view of the publications, it is one of the most fragmented cases: registry offices may split the readings by stage, by batch and by internal interpretation, so several different lines end up describing the same legal basis.
It is also one of the legal bases where additional stages appear in the publications, such as the opinion of the Gabinete do Secretário de Estado da Justiça. When that happens, the stage has a queue of its own and should not be read together with the review queue.
Dealing with several queues for one case
When more than one line is published, the way through is to check each one in the full calendar and note three things: the stage, the registry office and the reference month. Without those three details, two readings are not comparable.
It is common for one stage to be well ahead while another stands still. Averaging does not solve that: the site shows the readings separately because merging them would produce a number matching no real publication.
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
- Adding up or averaging different stages of the same legal basis.
- Assuming a new line in the email replaces the previous one — it may be a different batch.
- Taking the opinion date as the review date.
- Drawing conclusions about eligibility from a queue date: the site does not assess requirements.
Frequently asked questions
Does the page assess whether I am entitled to apply?
No. The site only organises public review dates. Legal eligibility must be checked with proper advice.
Why can there be several queues for this case?
Because the publications may split applications by stage, by batch, by route or by the office's internal organisation. Each of those splits has its own date.
What is the GSEJ opinion that appears on some lines?
It is the stage where the application depends on an opinion from the Gabinete do Secretário de Estado da Justiça. When published, it has its own queue and date, distinct from review within the sector.