atestado de residência
Published 30 October 2026, 20:39
A certificate from the junta de freguesia confirming that a person lives at a given address. It helps when your rental contract is not registered with Finanças or the electricity and water bills are not in your name. Each junta has its own rules: some accept the contract, others ask for a stamped receipt or two witnesses registered in the same freguesia, who sign in person in front of a member of staff.
Where you come across it. Opening a bank account, the address on your NIF, documents for AIMA, getting a número de utente.
You cannot get the certificate remotely or in advance, before you actually live at the address: the junta confirms where you really live.