Apply for the Brazil Digital Nomad Visa

The digital nomad visa fits remote workers and freelancers who work for foreign employers or clients and want to genuinely live in Brazil for a year before they commit: Florianópolis with its tech scene, the European-influenced south, plus fibre, 5G and PIX as part of everyday life. Eligibility depends on your nationality, and we check it before you order. The bar is deliberately low: USD 1,500 of monthly income or USD 18,000 in savings, health insurance and a clean police certificate. And you have two application routes: the classic one through a Brazilian consulate before you leave or, if you can enter visa-free, an application directly in the country.

The requirements are the most accessible in the region: you prove work for foreign employers or clients, plus USD 1,500 of monthly income or USD 18,000 in savings, health insurance and a clean police certificate. Foreign documents need an apostille and a sworn translation into Portuguese; get the police certificate last, because it expires quickly. The status is valid for one year and can be renewed to two. Your circumstances decide the route: the consular route suits you if you want your status settled before you leave; the in-country application suits you if you are using the 90 visa-free days to test the country anyway and then extend instead of flying back. After the grant, the same obligation applies on both routes: registration with the Polícia Federal within 90 days, which is what makes you a resident with a foreigner's ID card.

Nobody can honestly promise you a date: the timing depends on the route you choose, the consulate or authority responsible and your documents. The programme itself has been established since 2022 and is comparatively straightforward; the most common delays come from apostilles, translations and expired police certificates, which is exactly what we check before filing. The status is valid for one year and can be renewed to two; you apply for the renewal before it expires, not afterwards.

If you apply in the country you are already there; on the consular route you enter after the grant. On both routes, the deadline where most do-it-yourself attempts fail comes next: to the Polícia Federal within 90 days, otherwise you have no reliable resident status. This visa has no minimum stay requirement, but the opposite direction matters: from 183 days of presence within twelve months you become a Brazilian tax resident. If you spend the full year in the country, plan for that threshold deliberately rather than stumbling over it.

Our nomad package deliberately has no flat-rate family item: whether and how your family can come along in your specific case is something we check before you order, rather than selling you a standard answer.

After the trial year there are three honest outcomes: renew for a second year, leave cleanly, or stay. To stay, you switch to a permanent route, because the nomad visa generally does not count towards permanent residence. The usual next steps are the investor visa through your own company or the investor visa through property; the overview of all routes is in our guide to the Brazil residence permit.