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Benefits
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Brazilian passport and ID
Brazilian citizens can get an identity document and a passport.
An adult passport normally lasts 10 years and can be replaced before it expires.
Brazilian consulates abroad can issue passports.
Live in Brazil for life
Brazilian citizens can live in Brazil indefinitely and enter and leave as citizens.
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Study in Brazil
Brazilian citizens can study in Brazil without immigration permission and have a right to education on equal terms.
Work in Brazil
Brazilian citizens can work in Brazil without immigration permission and have a right to work on equal terms.
Get consular help
Brazilian citizens abroad can receive consular help, within the limits of what consulates can legally do.
Vote in elections
Brazilian citizens can vote from age 16.
Citizens registered abroad vote only in presidential elections.
Use public healthcare
Brazilian citizens have a right to health and access to public healthcare on equal terms.
Access social support
Brazilian citizens have rights to housing, social security, transport, leisure and security on equal terms.
Social assistance and income payments depend on meeting each programme's rules.
How to apply
Applying onlineApplying online
Gather your documents
Prepare the required documents for your online application.
See required documentsFill in the application
Sign in or create a GOV.BR account, then open Naturalizar-se and choose “Naturalização ordinária”. Fill in the online form yourself and attach your documents.
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Submit your application
Send the completed form and documents through Naturalizar-se. The application is free.
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Wait for document review
Follow your application in Naturalizar-se while the Federal Police review your documents. If they ask for more information or documents, send them through the same application rather than starting another one.
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Find your police unit
After your documents are approved, find the Federal Police unit responsible for the area where you live.
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Book an appointment
Book an appointment with the Federal Police unit responsible for the area where you live.
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Go to your appointment
Bring your original documents to your Federal Police appointment. The police will check your identity and documents, take your fingerprints and interview you to check how you communicate in Portuguese.
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Wait for the decision
Follow your application and notifications in Naturalizar-se while the Ministry of Justice makes its decision. Answer any questions and send any additional documents it asks for through the platform.
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Wait for official publication
If your application is approved, wait for the decision to be published in the Diário Oficial da União. Your citizenship takes effect after publication.
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Return your residence card
After publication, hand in your national migration registration card, or CRNM, at a Federal Police unit.
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Register to vote
Go to the electoral authorities to register within one year after your citizenship is granted. You can then take part in Brazilian elections.
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Documents needed
Family certificates and recordsFamily certificates and records
Marriage or partnership records
Provide an up-to-date marriage certificate if you are married to your Brazilian spouse. If you are applying through a Brazilian partner instead, provide the available official proof of your partnership.
Joint relationship declaration
You and your Brazilian spouse or partner must both declare that your relationship and life together are continuing. You both make the declaration under penalty of law.
Spouse or partner citizenship
Provide an official Brazilian identity or nationality document for your Brazilian spouse or partner. It must show that they are Brazilian.
Considerations
Things to think aboutThings to think about
Military service for men
Brazilian men must enlist for military service in the first half of the year they turn 18, even if they live abroad or have another citizenship.
Military duties generally run from 18 to 45.
Women are exempt in peacetime, as are some clergy.
Political rights restrictions
Political rights can be suspended or lost after a final criminal conviction, certain findings of wrongdoing in public office, or a finding of legal incapacity.
They can also be affected by refusing a duty imposed on everyone and its legal alternative, or by a final court decision cancelling naturalization.
Voting and registration
Brazilian citizens over 18 and under 70 must register and vote.
Voting is optional for 16–17-year-olds, people over 70 and people who cannot read or write.
Failing to keep registration in order can make it harder to get a passport.
Citizenship can be lost
A final court decision can cancel naturalization for fraud in obtaining it or an attack on the constitutional order and democracy.
Citizens can also ask to give up citizenship unless this would leave them with no citizenship.
A citizen by origin who gives it up may be able to get it back.
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