Eduardo Cabrita said that the gold visa scheme allowed for more than €700 million of investment in 2019, about €650 million of which was in real estate, especially in the municipalities of Lisbon, Oeiras, Cascais and Sintra.

The Governor specified that this year an evaluation of the Residence Permit regime for Investment, known as gold visas, is foreseen, with the objective of its alteration, "namely in the model of investment in the interior".

Eduardo Cabrita stated that the gold visas had "the relevant effect of attracting investment and urban requalification", besides "some dimension of job creation".

According to the minister, 20 of the 28 EU countries have mechanisms of residence allocation based on mobilization of investment.