Jews from Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Canada, Australia, Spain, Russia, Colombia and France were awarded Portuguese nationality in 2016 under new legislation to right a wrong going back over 500 years.
More than 400 descendants of Jews expelled from Portugal received nationality, led by 271 Turks, 81 Israelis and 48 Brazilians.
Last year some 5,100 applications were received in Portugal with 431 successfully showing that their heritage qualified them for Portuguese nationality.
There were five Sephardic Jews from Panama, five from the United States, and five from South Africa, as well as four from Serbia and four from Argentina.
Sephardic Jews of Portuguese origin living in Turkey lead the application list with 2,103 applying, followed by the Israelis with 2,021 and the Brazilians with 470.
Applications have been coming in from Greece, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, the Dominican Republic, Cape Verde, Tunisia and Morocco.
Between March and December 2015, the year in which the decree-law came into force, 466 applications started to be processed but none were completed before the year-end.
The law was approved to naturalise the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Portugal from the C15th onwards, after King Manuel I signed a decree in 1496 which forced Jews either to convert to Christianity or to leave Portugal.
The Portuguese Government approved the decree-law in January 2015, coming into force on March 1 of that year.
The legislation provides that candidates must submit a list of documents, including proof of Jewish ancestry and a certificate issued by the Israelite Community of Porto or the Israelite Community of Lisbon.
Spain passed an almost identical law to offer nationality to qualifying Jews descended from those expelled in 1492.
