Portugal's Digital Nomad Visa Has Been a Success by Every Metric Except the One That Matters to the People Who Live There

Four years after launching Europe's most permissive digital nomad visa programme, Portugal faces a political reckoning: Lisbon rents have risen 89 percent, more than 14,000 long-term residents have been displaced from central neighbourhoods, and a government that celebrated the visa as a model of modern economic policy is now trying to limit the very migration it spent years attracting.