Brazil.
How Brazil sells residence for investors (golden visa): 1 residence programme, open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.
6 documents and articles behind this page, listed at the bottom.
Residence
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later. Brazil: 1 residence programme, open today; 574 numbers, 18 prices and rules. Every country's residence programmes
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No investor route to citizenship: the general rules apply.
- Status
- Open · since 2009
- Lowest price for one person
- Last change
Investor residence permit
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Citizenship. No investor route to citizenship: the general rules apply. (from the research notes below)
Official name: Brazil residence authorisation for investors (autorização de residência para investidor: Resolução Normativa CNIg 13/2017, business; RN 36/2018 as replaced by RN 46, real estate)
R$500,000 of the applicant's own foreign funds invested in a Brazilian company (RN 118/2015, kept by RN 13/2017). The real-estate route needs R$1,000,000, or R$700,000 in the North and Northeast (RN 36/2018, later RN 46). A lower amount for innovation projects is reported by law firms but was not confirmed.
Notes from the research
Two routes under the 2017 Migration Law (Lei 13.445) and Decreto 9.199/2017, set by resolutions of the National Immigration Council (CNIg): investment of own foreign funds in a Brazilian company (R$150,000 under RN 84/2009; R$500,000 from RN 118/2015, kept by RN 13/2017) and purchase of urban residential property with foreign funds (RN 36/2018: R$1,000,000, R$700,000 in the North and Northeast; replaced by RN 46, which kept the amounts and per the Agência Gov release gives an initial authorisation of up to four years, renewable). Granted by the Ministry of Justice (CGIL). 252 business and 290 real-estate authorisations in 2025. Naturalisation follows general rules. Launch shown as 2009 (RN 84); earlier investor rules were not checked.
Prices and rules
What is measured
- Golden visas issued245
- Investment by programme investors172
- Applicant share140
- Share of programme investment by asset class or route15
- Residence permits in one period as a percentage of another (as stated)2
What we know is missing
- No yearly figures at all for applications or people let in or money raised.
- 1 of the 6 documents we hold from here has been read only in part; what remains is listed in the coverage file.
- Can't be extracted: Gráficos 7 (business investment by year), 8 (by continent), 9 (real-estate authorisations by year), 10 (by state), 11 (sex and education) and 12 (real-estate investment by country) print no values (vector bars without labels; OCR finds only axes), so yearly investment and yearly real-estate counts cannot be read from this report.
A gap means no figure is in our data: either it was never published or we haven't found or read it yet. Charts leave gaps open rather than drawing across them.
All the numbers we have for Brazil
574 numbers about Brazil's residence programmes. Pick a programme and what you want to see. Each dot is one number from one document; click anything to open its source.
What happened, and when
The 6 documents behind this page
- 2026 · GovernmentRelatório Anual OBMigra 2025 (chapter on qualified workers and foreign investors) · Observatório das Migrações Internacionais (OBMigra) / Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública
- 2024-12 · GovernmentImigrantes investiram R$ 283 milhões em imóveis no Brasil em 2024 · Agência Gov (via Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública)
- 2022-12 · GovernmentRelatório Anual OBMigra 2022 (chapter on residence authorisations for qualified workers and investors) · Observatório das Migrações Internacionais (OBMigra) / Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública
- 2019 · GovernmentAutorizações de residência concedidas a imigrantes, Relatório 2º Trimestre (abr-jun) 2019 · OBMigra / Coordenação Geral de Imigração Laboral, Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública
- 2018-11 · Law or regulationResolução Normativa nº 36, de 9 de outubro de 2018 (Conselho Nacional de Imigração): autorização de residência em decorrência de investimento imobiliário · Diário Oficial da União (Imprensa Nacional)
- 2017-12 · Law or regulationResolução Normativa nº 13, de 12 de dezembro de 2017 (Conselho Nacional de Imigração): autorização de residência para investimento de pessoa física em pessoa jurídica · Diário Oficial da União (Imprensa Nacional)
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