Our client, based in Mumbai, came from a background in hospitality — years of hands-on experience in restaurants and food service, but no prior connection to Portugal. He wanted to build something of his own, not just work for someone else, and Portugal's D2 visa offered a path to do exactly that.
Rather than starting a business from scratch, we identified an existing restaurant in Portugal available for acquisition — a route that gave him an operating business with real footing from day one, and a stronger, more concrete business plan for his D2 application. Our team handled company formation, the acquisition process, and the full visa application, while coordinating on the ground in Portugal throughout.
Getting the visa approved was only part of the work. Once he arrived in Portugal, our support continued: helping him navigate local hiring for his restaurant staff, supporting his marketing to establish the business in a new market, and providing language support to help him operate confidently in a country where he didn't yet speak the language.
Today, he owns and runs his restaurant in Portugal — a business he built from the ground up with local support at every stage, not just at the visa stage.
This is what we mean by end-to-end support: the visa is one milestone, not the finish line. Business execution, local hiring, and settling into a new country all matter just as much.