Residencia renewal

me and my wife have had temporary residency in albufeira since may 2016. it needs renewing before 30th may 2022. can we renew this at the town hall before this date? we spend about 22 weeks a year in our apartment at quinta da bella vista. we have filled our S E F application forms in and are waiting to hear from them giving us a date for an interview. we have tried filling in the automatic renewal forms but don't have the 9 digit number they ask us for. we are both in out 70s would welcome a little advice.    tony.

.thank you so much for your reply. we will visit the town hall next week and hopefully get our problem sorted out. have a great day----tony and maureen.

I've just realised I need to do this, so I've filled in the form on SEF and downloaded a QR certificate.  What happens next? How do you get a date for an appointment?

Ok thanks Tom.  Does the QR paper stop them stamping your passport or do they do that anyway?

Amazingly I have just had an invite from SEF to book an appointment for a new resident card (yes on a Sunday!)
The only problem is that the link takes me to a page with only 2 options;1)login to existing account or 2) create account.
Needless to say when I login in to my account, it has just three options; display application form 2)download residence certificate and 3)Log out!

Has anybody else managed to make an appointment with the SEF and if so how did you do it?

Thanks in advance.

Loads of people in albufeira got emails recently. I’d wait and see if Loulé comes available. People saying they’ll call Sef to see if this will be an option.

they started with madeira island then cascais nr lisbon. loule was next to get it set up and many people have gone there. more places to offer the service but don't know when. lots of chat on social media - my advice is to wait for loule to become available or new places offering service.