To start living in Portugal, to apply for a permit of residence, everyone needs a location or an address.

With this address you need to ask the European Affairs Services for a permit of residence in Portugal within 90 days after the arriving date.

This service shall give the applicant a decision in 60 days. If the permit is refused, the applicant can appeal. Otherwise, the applicant shall receive an identity card to present to the other authorities. http://www.sef.pt
http://www.min-nestrangeiros.pt

Interested persons can collect very good information about this at http://citizens.eu.int where useful addresses can be found, not only from your country of origin, but in your mother tongue as well.

With this residence permit card, everyone has the right to use the free Social Health System (SNS), which is not a good one - you may wait a long time for surgery, even when it’s urgent - but it is necessary for employees.