Brazil Investor Visa: R$500,000 Gets Permanent Residence
Or R$150,000 if you run an innovation project
Por Lucas Ribeiro Cavalcante — OAB/CE 44.673
Brazil Investor Visa: R$500,000 Gets Permanent Residence
Or R$150,000 if you run an innovation project
Por Lucas Ribeiro Cavalcante — OAB/CE 44.673
Your CNPJ is two years old. The company pays taxes, hires people, issues invoices. And you still enter Brazil stamped as a tourist. The business is legal. You are not.
✘ Mito
Myth: registering a CNPJ gives you the right to live in Brazil
✓ Verdade
Truth: company registration and immigration status are separate files
R$ 500.000
Foreign capital an individual investor must bring in to claim permanent residence
Investor: R$500,000
Manager: R$600,000 per person
Startup route: R$150,000
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Brazil is a Civil Law country. Tick every written condition and the authority is bound to grant your residence.
Dica
Most denials are not about money. They happen because the file was built on the wrong legal basis. Choose your route before you wire a single real into Brazil.
Can I own a Brazilian company while living abroad?
Yes. A CPF and a Brazilian attorney-in-fact are enough. That is ownership, never residence.
R$ 600.000
Foreign capital required for each foreign manager appointed to a Brazilian company
Stop living as a tourist inside the company you built. Claim the residence the law already owes you.