While our lawyer said that this strategy had worked for her clients in the past, she double-checked with the Lisbon SEF and was told that they would not allow families to use the same appointment to get multiple visas in that way anymore. Therefore, we had to get separate appointments, so the only question was where and when. Our lawyer recommended that we go to my appointment in the Lisbon SEF office for the EU Blue Card because they know the most about that type of visa. She warned me that it would be difficult to get the Blue Card in Portugal and that not many people that she had worked with had decided to get it in the end, but I wanted to make use of the three years I had accumulated on it in Germany as I described above, so I pushed forward.