Eligibility quiz
Did you move to Brazil and make it your home 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
Gather your documents
Prepare the required documents for your child’s application.
See required documentsFill in the application online
As your child’s legal representative, create an account in Naturalizar-se and select naturalização provisória. Fill in the online form with your child’s details and your own.
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Submit your application
Upload the required documents and submit your child’s application in Naturalizar-se. The application is free.
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Wait for document review
The Federal Police will review your child’s documents. Follow the notifications in Naturalizar-se and upload any additional records requested.
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Find your police office
Once your child’s documents have been approved, find the Federal Police office serving the city where your child lives.
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Book an appointment
Book your child’s Federal Police appointment at the office serving the city where your child lives.
Book an appointmentGo to the appointment
Take your child and the original documents to the Federal Police appointment. The police will check the documents and collect your child’s biometric information.
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Wait for the decision
Follow your child’s application and notifications in Naturalizar-se while the Ministry of Justice reviews it. Upload any additional records requested.
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Follow your child’s approval
Follow the application in Naturalizar-se for your child’s approval notification; the decision is also published in the official government gazette. Your child can later ask to make the naturalization permanent.
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Request permanent naturalization
If your child wants to make the naturalization permanent, they must ask the Ministry of Justice within two years after turning 18.
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Documents needed
Required to applyRequired to apply
CPF registration record
Provide your CPF registration status record from Brazil's tax authority.
Copy of travel document
Provide your passport or international travel document, even if it has expired. Bring the original to the Federal Police for checking.
Proof of continuous residence
Provide at least one document for each year you have lived continuously in Brazil. These can include utility bills, a rental agreement or property deed, a bank declaration, school or medical records, health insurance or social security records, or a work record that shows you lived in Brazil. If a document is in the name of your parent, spouse or partner, also provide proof of your relationship.
Representative's identity document
Provide identification for your legal representative. Bring the original to the Federal Police for checking.
Copies of residence cards
Provide copies of your Brazilian migration registration card, known as a CRNM, and your legal representative's CRNM. Your card can be expired; bring the original to the Federal Police for checking.
Application form
Your legal representative completes the online form with your details and theirs.
Proof of legal representation
Provide a document showing that your representative is legally allowed to apply for you. This may be shown in the civil records you provide.
Name adaptation request *
Provide a request explaining why you want your name translated or adapted into Portuguese. The name adaptation guidance explains the supporting certificates.
* Only if you want to translate or adapt your name into Portuguese.
Civil court certificates *
Provide state and federal civil court certificates covering the places where you lived in the last five years.
* Only if you want to translate or adapt your name into Portuguese.
Protest certificates *
Provide certificates of protested debts covering the places where you lived in the last five years.
* Only if you want to translate or adapt your name into Portuguese.
Labor debt certificate *
Provide a certificate showing that you have no outstanding labor debts, covering the places where you lived in the last five years.
* Only if you want to translate or adapt your name into Portuguese.
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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