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Have you lived in Brazil without a break since before you turned 10?
Benefits
Benefits for your childBenefits for your child
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
Find your police unit
Find the Federal Police unit responsible for the place where your child lives in Brazil.
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Gather your documents
Prepare the required documents for your child's online application and scan them clearly.
See required documentsFill in the application
As your child's legal representative, create an account or sign in to Naturalizar-se, choose Naturalização provisória, and fill in and electronically sign the form. You can start the application from outside Brazil too.
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Submit your application
Upload your child's documents and submit the application in Naturalizar-se. The application is free, and investing in Brazil does not qualify a child for it.
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Wait for the review
Wait for the Federal Police to review your child's application and invite you to book an appointment. If they ask for more documents, send them through Naturalizar-se.
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Book an appointment
Once invited, book an appointment at the Federal Police unit responsible for where your child lives. If your unit asks you to book by email, use its contact details instead.
Book an appointmentGo to your appointment
Take your child and the original documents to the Federal Police appointment in Brazil. The police will check the documents and take your child's fingerprints and other biometric details.
Find appointment detailsSearches DuckDuckGo for “What happens at a Brazil Federal Police appointment for Naturalização provisória?”
Wait for the decision
Follow your child's application in Naturalizar-se and respond to any requests for more information. If the application is refused, you can appeal within 10 days using the instructions in the notice.
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Confirm the publication
If your child's application is approved, look for the notice in Naturalizar-se and the published decision in Brazil's official gazette. Your child's provisional citizenship takes effect when the decision is published.
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Request permanent citizenship
After turning 18, your child must ask the Ministry of Justice to change their provisional citizenship to permanent citizenship. They must do this within two years of turning 18.
Find conversion instructionsSearches DuckDuckGo for “How do I convert Naturalização provisória to permanent citizenship in Brazil after turning 18?”
Documents needed
Family certificates and recordsFamily certificates and records
Proof of family relationship *
Provide a certificate showing your relationship to the person named on the lease or property deed. For example, this could be a birth or marriage certificate.
* Only if your lease or property deed is in your parent’s, spouse’s or partner’s name.
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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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