NAV
Published 6 November 2026, 09:07
NAV — notificação para abandono voluntário (notice to leave voluntarily)
A document given to a person who has no right to stay, instead of immediate removal: it tells them to leave the country of their own accord and gives them time to prepare. If they leave in time, there is no forced removal and no entry ban.
Where you come across it. A police document check, a refused residence permit renewal, a refused asylum application.
The "return law" signed by the President on 31 August 2026 abolishes this document: instead there is an obligation to leave, followed straight away by forced removal. The date from which this applies will be known once the law is published in the Diário da República.
Official website: diariodarepublica.pt/dr/legislacao-consolidada/lei/2007-67564445