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Was one of your parents a Brazilian citizen when you were born?
Benefits
Benefits for youBenefits for you
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
From outside BrazilFrom outside Brazil
Find your consulate
Find the Brazilian consulate or embassy responsible for the area where you live.
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Open the birth-registration service
Open e-Consular, select the option to request services at your consulate, and choose birth registration. If your consulate does not use e-Consular, the system will direct you to its instructions.
Open e-ConsularGather your documents
Prepare the required documents for the consulate.
See required documentsFill in the application
Create an e-Consular account, fill in the birth-registration application, and attach clear images of the documents. For a child, the parent completes the application.
Fill in the applicationSubmit your application
Send the application online for the consulate to review. You will still need to attend in person.
Submit the applicationWait for the review
Wait for an email from the consulate approving the application for an appointment or asking for corrections. Send any corrections the consulate requests.
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Book an appointment
Once the consulate has approved your application for an appointment, book it through e-Consular. For a child, the parent books the appointment.
Book an appointmentPay the fee
If your consulate charges a fee, pay it using the method shown in its service instructions. Keep the payment receipt to bring to your appointment.
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Go to your appointment
Attend in person and bring the original documents and any payment receipt to the consulate. For a child, the parent attends for the registration.
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Receive your certificate
The consulate issues the birth registration after your appointment. Receive the consular birth certificate so it can be recorded in Brazil.
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Once in BrazilOnce in Brazil
Record your certificate
Have your consular birth certificate recorded at the first civil registry office in the place where you live in Brazil. If you do not live in Brazil, use the first civil registry office in the Federal District instead; your birth will then be recorded in Brazil.
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Documents needed
Family certificates and recordsFamily certificates and records
Birth certificates
Get your birth certificate showing your birth and your parents’ names. If you apply in Brazil without a consular birth registration, also provide the birth record transcribed by the Brazilian civil registry; if you already have a consular birth certificate, take it to the civil registry for transcription.
Parent’s citizenship records
Provide proof that your Brazilian parent is Brazilian. This can be their Brazilian birth certificate, Brazilian marriage certificate that expressly states their nationality, or Brazilian naturalisation certificate.
Parents’ marriage certificates *
Get your parents’ marriage certificate to show their married names. If a parent’s name changed in another way, provide the record of that change.
* Only if your parents’ married or changed names need to be shown on your birth record.
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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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