Can a Brazilian citizen with Portugese residency return to Portugal with a passport that will expire less than a month from the boarding date?

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A Schengen residence permit (título de residência) (listed here) exempts one from the ordinary extended passport validity requirement, at least when one returns to the country of issuance of the permit.

She will have to present a valid cartão de residencia (likely a red-blue-red card) and that's the only document the airlines will accept for sure. She can return to Portugal as long as her passport is valid. If her passport expires, she should ask for consular assistance in obtaining an emergency passport.

A cartão de cidadão for Brazillian citizens will likely not be accepted, except perhaps a Portugese airline that's familiar with it.

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Timatic, the database which airlines use to verify passenger travel documents, tells me that Brazilian citizens who are residents of Portugal can fly to Portugal at any time up to and including the expiry date of the passport.

  • Passports and other documents accepted for entry issued to residents of Portugal must be valid on arrival.

In addition to the passport, the passenger also needs to provide proof of residence in Portugal. This will be the cartão de residência, the common EU format residence card. It is red and blue and has a bull and stars above the photo. The citizen card will not be shown to the airline in this scenario.

NB: You made a major change to the question which largely invalidates the prior answer. The previous text remains below for reference.

Timatic, the database which airlines use to verify passenger travel documents, tells me that citizens of Portugal can fly to Portugal with a valid national ID card in lieu of a passport. The cartão de cidadão issued to citizens of Portugal is indeed that national ID card. To be valid for travel, it should have three lines of machine readable text that begins with: "I<PRT". When checking in to the airline, the passenger should declare their citizenship as Portugal, not Brazil, and should not show the Brazilian passport.

However, very similar cards are also issued to some foreigners, particularly Brazilian nationals. These do not have a machine readable section on the reverse side, and instead show the text: "NÃO SERVE DE DOCUMENTO DE VIAGEM / NOT VALID AS A TRAVEL DOCUMENT". If her card is marked as not valid for travel, then she will have to travel on her Brazilian passport.

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