Candidate Z., electrician, plumber and shipyard welder, 12 years, applying from outside the EU.
Prepared 25 September 2026. Checked by a person before release. Every posting re-checked at generation; anything older than 90 days is marked.
- Employers
- 20
- Confirmed or inferred
- 6
- Waves
- 3
Twenty employers, ranked
Ranked by score out of 100. Open a row for the breakdown, the evidence with its source type and date, your visa route and the email. Each row carries a status that says what kind of evidence sits behind it.
- Confirmeddirect, dated evidence of hiring from abroad
- Inferredstrong indirect signals, no direct proof
- Unknownnothing found either way
- Negative signalevidence points the other way
- Channela route, not an employer
Send plan, 14 days in three waves
Days count from the day you send your first email. Send from your own address, in the order below.
- Day 0Wave 1Targets 1 to 5
Two or three emails a day, from your own address, in rank order.
- Day 3Wave 2Targets 6, 8 to 10, 12, 15 and 17
Start before wave 1 answers. Silence for three days means nothing yet.
- Day 7Wave 3Targets 7, 11, 13 to 14, 16 and 18 to 20
The long shots and the channels. Same care, shorter emails.
- Day 10One follow-upEveryone who has not replied
One only, never more. The follow-up text is in the report.
- Day 14Tracker back to e-expatSend us your tracker
We read it before your route call and adjust the second batch if you asked for one.
Your checklist
What to have ready before the first reply arrives. Each item is written into the emails as a commitment, so the dates matter.
Certificates
- Electrician and plumbing qualification certificates, translated into Portuguese by a certified translator
- Welding certificates, copies with issue and expiry dates
- Safety training cards, listed with dates
Language
- State Portuguese as Basic in every email; do not round up
- Book a Portuguese course and note the start date; it goes in your emails
- English CV, one page, photo, certificates listed
Documents
- Passport valid for at least 12 months
- Criminal record certificate, apostilled, under 90 days old at filing
- Employer letters or contracts covering the 12 years, for the visa file later
Tracker
Fill in as you send. On day 14, send it back to us.
What we could not verify, and who can
- Whether your welding certificates are accepted for shipyard work without a Portuguese re-test.Who can: IEFP, or the yard’s quality manager. The drafts to targets 4, 8 and 9 ask the question.
- Which of the eleven Unknown employers have signed a contract with someone abroad before.Who can: Their HR teams. Each draft email asks it directly, so the answer arrives with the reply.
- Current processing time for D1 files at your consulate.Who can: The consulate. We give you the published figure and the question to ask.
- Whether the residence requirement in the target 20 posting is company policy or one site’s preference.Who can: Only the company. That is why it is a negative signal, not a zero.
Method
Each score is the sum of five parts: abroad-hiring evidence (30), role fit (30), hiring activity (15), language (10) and scale with Via Verde eligibility (15). Activity and scale are computed from posting dates and the public company register. The other three are a judgment made by a person, on the date shown, next to the evidence.
The status says what kind of evidence sits behind the first criterion: Confirmed, Inferred, Unknown or Negative signal. A Channel is a route to several employers, such as a community business network or a staffing agency, and is scored as one. Postings were re-checked when this report was generated on 25 September 2026; anything older than 90 days is marked in its evidence line.
We did not contact any employer, we take no commission from any of them, and where a contact could not be verified we say so instead of guessing. How we score, in full
Your own twenty, within 3 business days.
No commission. Full refund if we find fewer than 15 qualified employers.
