Deportation Notice? You Have 60 Days by Law
Brazil must give you time to fix your status
Por Lucas Ribeiro Cavalcante — OAB/CE 44.673
Deportation Notice? You Have 60 Days by Law
Brazil must give you time to fix your status
Por Lucas Ribeiro Cavalcante — OAB/CE 44.673
The envelope from the Polícia Federal is open on your kitchen table. One word jumps out: deportação. Your first thought: am I about to lose everything I built in Brazil?
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A deportation notice in Brazil is not a plane ticket. It is the opening of a procedure where you have rights.
60
Minimum days by law to regularize your status, extendable once for the same period
But most foreigners lose these cases for one reason: they do nothing while the law is still on their side. Silence turns a 60-day window into an emergency court filing.
✘ Mito
Myth: deportation bans you from Brazil forever
✓ Verdade
Truth: it is administrative, not punishment, and not permanent
Brazil separates four very different measures: repatriation at the border, deportation for irregular status, expulsion after a criminal conviction, and extradition judged by the Supreme Court.
Answer the notice in writing
Keep your address updated with PF
Appoint a lawyer by power of attorney
Do I have to face the Federal Police alone?
No. You may respond in person or through a lawyer holding a power of attorney.
Your 60 days are counting down. Protect the life you built in Brazil.