What is the History of Portuguese Passports for Sephardi Jews? For Jewish people with Sephardi roots, a Portuguese passport has long been desired and reasonably attainable. Legislation from 2013 allowed hundreds of thousands of Jewish people the eligibility to apply for a Portuguese passport if they demonstrated a familial link to those who were expelled from Spain and Portugal over 500 years ago. These applicants can be citizens of any country and need not be Halachically Jewish, merely those able to demonstrate Jewish origin. This legislation was quite lenient compared to the citizenship process of other countries in the European...