On January 31st, 2020, Brexit took place, and the United Kingdom
left the European Union, becoming a third country. The formal
agreement was signed after 10 months of discussion and one week
before the end of the transition period.
The document brought together the possible agreement of both
parties, called the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, has more than
1,200 pages and focuses mainly on the issues related to the
exchange of goods, security, fisheries, aviation, free trade,
horizontal governance agreements and competition rules and will be
provisionally applied until February 28th, 2021.
Portugal always recorded a strong presence of the British
community in its territory, either on a seasonal basis, for tourism
(about 4.767,764 citizens / year), or on a permanent basis by
having UK nationals establishing their residency here. According to
the official data from the Foreigners and Borders Services (SEF) of
2019, the United Kingdom is the third most representative
