For partners
Offer your clients Portugal's €200,000 Donation Golden Visa.
Guaranteed slots in government-approved cultural projects, institutional-grade governance, and one point of contact for everything.
Our partners
Built for advisers whose clients are moving.
Immigration, residency and global mobility firms.
Add the lowest-cost European residency route to your offer.
Law firms.
Bring the donation route to clients you already advise on residency.
Wealth managers and financial advisers.
A residency solution that does not lock up client capital.
Why partner with Cascais Ventures
We are the infrastructure the route never had.
We create and produce cultural projects with Portugal's most credible foundations and leading artists. That gives your clients what the market has always lacked: reliable access.
Guaranteed slots.
We have a significant pipeline of projects, so we can guarantee your clients access to a €200,000 slot. We keep the reservation while your client opens a bank account, gets the NIF and moves the funds.
Institutional-grade governance.
Processes that remove any legal and reputational risk for artists, donors and partners. We work with the most credible foundations and public institutions in Portugal, and with leading national and international artists. On top of that:
Audited projects.
All our projects and foundations are audited.
Milestone-based funding.
A strict governance model releases funding only after milestones are achieved.
Reporting and transparency.
Periodic reporting to donors beyond legal requirements. Every euro is traceable.
Fully vetted donors.
KYC due diligence performed by a global audit firm.
One point of contact.
A dedicated account manager handles foundations, documents and signatures.
No extra cost.
Donors pay nothing to Cascais Ventures on top of the donation.
Portugal's top projects.
Created with the country's best artists and its most respected foundations.
The product
Europe's lowest-cost residency route with a path to citizenship.
Residency in Portugal.
Live, work and study in Portugal with a renewable residence permit.
Schengen access.
Travel visa-free across the Schengen Area.
Lowest entry point.
€200,000, the lowest cost of any European residency route with a path to citizenship.1
Path to citizenship.
Citizenship after 10 years, with only 7 days stay per year.2
Government-approved projects.
No project eligibility risk.
Family included.
Spouse, children, parents and parents-in-law.2
No hidden costs, no capital at risk.
No management fees, no lock-up, no market risk.
Cultural impact.
Contribute to local culture and communities, and be recognised for it.
1 The legal minimum for a cultural donation is €250,000, reduced by 20% to €200,000 for projects in low-density territories (Portaria 208/2017). Every Cascais Ventures project is in a low-density territory. The low-density territories in English.
2 Ten years of legal residence from the first residence card (7 for nationals of Portuguese-speaking (CPLP) countries), plus Portuguese language and civic tests. Stay rule: 7 days in the first year, then 14 days in each following two-year period. Children under 18, or older if unmarried, dependent and studying; parents and parents-in-law if dependent on you or your spouse.
Our projects
Where your clients' donations go.
BOSK
A thousand trees in Évora's main square for European Capital of Culture 2027, and a permanent forest left behind.
Janes
A feature documentary on Alberto Janes, the poet and composer behind some of fado's most enduring songs, immortalised in the voice of Amália Rodrigues.
How it works
From first call to first client.
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Partner call.
30 minutes by video: the route, the projects, how we work together.
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Partnership Agreement.
One standard agreement, signed electronically.
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Partner kit.
All the documents you need for each project, including its approvals.
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Your first client.
Reserve a slot for your client, and your account manager takes it from there with the foundation. Your client's lawyer handles the residency application; we handle everything on the donation side.
Track record
Cascais Ventures in numbers.
Cascais Ventures creates and produces the government-approved cultural projects behind Portugal's Donation Golden Visa. This is what our projects have delivered so far.
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150+
Donations successfully completed by donors from all over the world.
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500+
Donors and family members who have successfully applied for the Golden Visa through our projects.
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0
Application rejections to date, across every donor and family member we have supported.
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€30M+
Raised in donations for Portuguese culture: heritage rehabilitation, film and documentary, artistic programmes.
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10
Cultural projects successfully approved by the Ministry of Culture.
All projects -
Almost30%
Of all programme donations made in Cascais Ventures projects.
About the programme
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