AIMA forms and templates, what each one is for

AIMA’s Impressos e Minutas page gathers dozens of PDFs with names that mean little to someone seeing them for the first time. This guide groups them by the situation in which they are used and says, in plain words, what each one is for. The content of the forms is not reproduced here: always download the current version from the official page, because AIMA updates the files.

Two distinctions help. The forms (impressos: Modelo 1 to 7 and the Equality Statute ones) are applications: they ask AIMA to do something. The templates (minutas) are standard declarations that the applicant, or a third party (employer, school, the other parent), completes to prove a fact. The site also has a templates page, but those are message texts for writing to AIMA or other bodies, not official forms.

To apply for or renew a residence permit

• Modelo 1. The main application form. It has boxes to tick for what you are asking: grant or renewal of a temporary or permanent residence permit, of long-term resident status, of the Residence Permit for Investment (and the permanent ARI) and of the EU Blue Card, or else family reunification. For reunification it asks which Portuguese diplomatic mission the family will use if they need a visa. The same form covers change of data and duplicate of the document (poor condition, loss or theft, new address, new marital status), and it carries a checklist of the documents handed in: passport, health insurance or SNS registration, means of subsistence, accommodation, IRS and proof of basic Portuguese. The guide to AIMA and the residence permit shows the route it fits into, and the one on renewing covers renewal.
• Modelo 2. Request to extend the stay under a temporary stay visa or a residence visa, with the grounds the law sets for each case. One of them is having a residence permit or residence visa application pending, which matters if your residence visa expires before your AIMA appointment.
• Modelo 3. Extension of the stay, validity or duration of a Schengen visa.
• Modelo 7. Request for a certificate from AIMA.
• Declaration of accommodation template. The sworn declaration of your address, which the AIMA guidance lists as part of the proof of housing.
• Request for an extension of a deadline. Used to ask for an extension of a deadline in your case.
• Request to withdraw an application. For someone who decides to withdraw an application already made.
• Declaration of stay in national territory. A sworn declaration by the applicant that they stayed in Portugal between two dates without leaving. AIMA will tell you whether your case needs it.
• Declaration of compliance with the ARI requirements. For people applying for the Residence Permit for Investment.

Responsibility and Modelo 4

Modelo 4 is the Termo de Responsabilidade (statement of responsibility). Whoever signs it declares themselves responsible for a foreign national as regards the conditions of stay in Portugal, removal costs if necessary, and compliance with Portuguese law; the form refers to article 12 of Law 23/2007. AIMA says the signature must be certified by a notary, lawyer or solicitor, unless it is made before an AIMA representative. In family reunification it is one of the resident’s documents, as the family reunification guide explains. Read the text carefully before signing, because removal costs can fall on you.

Family

• Declaration for a de facto union. To declare the de facto union when it is the basis of the application, for example in family reunification.
• Authorisation from the other parent. The other parent gives their consent in an application involving a minor child.
• Declaration of exercise of parental responsibilities. States who exercises parental responsibility over the minor. AIMA publishes two files with this title, and you should use the one AIMA indicates in your case.

Work and income

• Declaration from the employer. The employer confirms the employment relationship.
• Declaration of self-employed activity and declaration from the contracting entity. For the self-employed: the first declares the activity and the second confirms the service contracted.
• Declaration of own income. For people who prove their means of subsistence with income that does not come from work. The guide to means of subsistence explains the amounts and the proof.
• Declaration of research activity or grant, of attendance at a professional internship and of volunteering activity. Each is for the entity hosting the person in that activity.

Study

• Modelo 6. Notification concerning the mobility of higher-education students.
• Declarations from the educational establishment: higher education, secondary education, vocational training course and vocational schools associated with ANESPO. The school or training body completes it. The guide to studying places these routes.
• Declaration on cooperation agreements. A sworn declaration by the student that, during their studies in Portugal, they did not receive any grant awarded under a cooperation agreement.

EU citizens and their family members

Modelo 5 is the application for the residence card of EU, EEA and Swiss nationals and their family members: first application, renewal, change of data and duplicate. The guide to EU citizen family members describes that regime.

Equality Statute

There are three applications for Brazilians resident in Portugal, depending on what is requested: rights and duties, political rights and the combined rights and duties and political rights form. The Equality Statute guide explains who can apply for each.

The form that no longer works

The Modelo Manifestação de Interesse (expression of interest form) is still listed on the AIMA page, but it belongs to a regime that ended. Decree-Law 37-A/2024 of 3 June repealed the residence procedures based on expressions of interest, in force from the day after publication. Do not use that form for a new application. For the routes that exist today, see the visas guide. The decree-law safeguards procedures already started before it came into force, so if yours began earlier, ask AIMA how it is treated.

How to use this list

1. Identify your situation and the channel you will apply through (counter, portal or email), because what you hand in varies.
2. Download the PDF directly from AIMA and read the instructions before filling it in.
3. If you are unsure which one your case needs, call AIMA on (+351) 217 115 000, Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 20:00.