The Jewish Community of Porto (CJP) has said today that the regime allowing descendants of Sephardic Jews to apply for Portuguese nationality – which ends in December this year – “in practice, ended on 1 September 2022” (after the government changed requirements). The government’s explanation is that the current regime for descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews to apply for nationality will end in December as “the purpose of historical reparation” that gave rise to the law “has been fulfilled“. The Jewish/Israeli Community of Porto (CIP/CJP) responds that “in practical terms, the law ended on September 1, 2022, because no Jew of Sephardic origin has property or companies inherited from the time of the inquisition, nor has made trips to Portugal since childhood. These requirements are contained in a government regulation of March 18, 2022, conveniently published a week after the illegal invasion of the Porto synagogue on the basis of anonymous complaints from convicts and robbers, which are already meriting an international investigation.” For more on this theme, click here.
