Your Portuguese NIF, filed from Lisbon.

The NIF (Número de Identificação Fiscal) is Portugal's tax identification number. It's required for any meaningful financial or legal activity in Portugal: buying property, opening a bank account, signing rental contracts, starting a business, even purchasing a SIM card.

Correct. As long as you provide a Power of Attorney (which NIF Express prepares for you), NIF Express can represent you at the Portuguese Tax Authority. You sign the documents at home, scan or photograph them, and upload them to your portal. NIF Express does the rest.

Your NIF is typically issued in 5–14 business days after NIF Express receives your signed documents. Once the NIF is issued, the access password from the Portuguese Tax Authority arrives separately about 7 business days later by registered mail to your fiscal representative. NIF Express forwards it to you as soon as it arrives.

Two items: (1) your identity document: a passport, or a national ID card for EU/EEA citizens (ID card front and back, passport photo page), and (2) proof of address from outside Portugal, dated within the last 3 months (utility bill, bank statement or official letter). For minors, we also need both parents' identity documents and a birth certificate.

The passport and address documents you upload are stored encrypted in the EU and used to process your NIF application, as described in our Privacy Policy. NIF Express is the online service of BOCEAN IMMIGRATION PORTUGAL, LDA (NIPC 519043731), trading as Blue Ocean Immigration, with a physical office in Lisbon, and every filing is supervised by a lawyer registered with the Ordem dos Advogados. It is a private consultancy, not the Tax Authority, and the NIF itself is free of charge at the Tax Authority.

Yes. Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card details. Your personal data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and we comply with GDPR. We use your data to process your NIF application. Only if you separately choose it, we also share your email address with Blue Ocean Immigration and Reside Portugal so they can send you offers and news by email; declining changes nothing about your order. See the privacy policy.

At checkout you pay €49.99 for an adult or €74.99 for a minor, and that price includes the first year of fiscal representation. The fiscal representation then renews each year at the same amount as the previous period, and we email you at least 30 days before each renewal.

No. The NIF is a permanent number, so it does not expire or need to be renewed. What renews is the fiscal representation: the first year is included in the price, and after that it renews each year at the same amount as the previous period, with an email at least 30 days before.

Each person needs their own NIF and their own application, so pricing is per applicant: €49.99 per adult and €74.99 per minor, each including the first year of fiscal representation. For example, 2 adults and 2 minors come to €249.96 in total (2 × €49.99 + 2 × €74.99). The guide to NIF costs and fees has the full breakdown.

Immediately: your three legal documents are generated with your data and made available in your client portal. Within 1 business day: NIF Express reviews your uploaded documents and confirms everything is in order. Then it's a matter of you signing and returning the docs.

Yes, and the guarantee covers our own work, not a decision of the Portuguese State. If we fail to prepare and file your enrolment within 2 business days of receiving your correctly signed documents, or if we are unable to perform the service for any reason attributable to us, you get a full refund. We do not guarantee that the Autoridade Tributária will attribute a NIF, or when. That decision belongs to the Portuguese State.