Brazil Immigration Services

With offices in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Newland Chase Brazil provides corporations and individuals operating in Brazil with complete support for all their immigration and visa needs – inbound to Brazil and outbound to more than 190 countries around the world. Our full spectrum of services allows us to manage all of your business visa and employee immigration needs.

With more than 25 years of experience helping and advising Brazilian and multinational companies and Our team draws upon its years of collective experience to support the unique and challenging needs of our clients, both in Brazil and overseas, wherever our clients’ needs take them. Our global reach expands to more than 60 worldwide offices and immigration to and from more than 190 countries.

• Brazil Immigration Management

  We provide support in all areas of Brazil immigration for corporations and individuals – from short-term work authorization and temporary residency to long-term work authorization, permanent residency, and citizenship, including both company employees and accompanying family members. Our approach covers you from comprehensive guidance and pre-planning of new assignments and immigration options to completion of all in-country requirements to ongoing compliance monitoring.

  For up-to-date information on the most common work authorization routes in Brazil, see Employment Immigration below.

• Comprehensive Global Immigration Management

  For corporations and individuals located in Brazil, we provide support in all areas of immigration to more than 190 countries around the world. Our Brazil team is part of the larger Newland Chase global team of 1,700+ expert immigration and visa professionals – specializing in everything from short-term work assignments and temporary residency to long-term work assignments, permanent residency, and citizenship throughout the world.

• Business Traveler Management

  Business Visitor visas are a key component of a globally mobile workforce – allowing individuals to enter Brazil and other countries for non-work business activities. Business visitor visas typically apply to business meetings, seminars, conferences, trade shows, limited sales activities, contract negotiations, and some supervisory activities. Newland Chase Brazil offers comprehensive services for business travelers both inbound to Brazil and outbound to more than 190 countries.

  Our services include everything from personalized assessment of the activities and destination for visa compliance, to obtaining the proper visas, to tracking of the number and length of stays of your business travelers for legal compliance.

• Immigration Policy and Compliance

  Our Brazil immigration experts offer an extensive suite of advisory services and immigration compliance strategies to ensure that your organization and employees remain compliant with all Brazilian immigration and visa requirements. Our services include strategic guidance on immigration plans, development and implementation of immigration policies, sponsor compliance, education and training, audit support (including mock audits), and immigration compliance technology solutions.

• Consulting and Advisory Services

  Our Brazil immigration experts act as trusted business advisors – supporting you in virtually any unique or complex immigration-related matter. Our Brazil team is able to manage the scope of immigration in large-scale projects and employee moves, as well as guide you through the immigration complexities involved in corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions.

  • Family Reunion

    Under Brazil’s new immigration law, it is not possible to have the primary visa holder’s legal dependents inserted in their main residency process. A separate process for legal dependents, called Family Reunion, is required.

    There are two routes for requesting this type of process:

    • Applying for visas for dependents at the Brazilian Consulate simultaneously with the primary applicant’s visa application. The dependents’ visa applications are contingent upon the primary applicant’s visa issuance; or
    • Where the dependents are already in Brazil on another immigration classification, it is possible to request a change of status by submitting the necessary application at the Federal Police station, once the main applicant is registered with the Federal Police.

    Once Family Reunion is granted, the dependents’ period of stay will be the same period which was given to the primary applicant.

    Marriage and Offspring

    The Family Reunion process also can be used by foreign nationals who are married to Brazilian citizens or who have a Brazilian offspring. In this situation, the applicant also can apply for the visa either at a Brazilian Consulate abroad and receive a visa stamped on the passport or apply while in Brazil at the Federal Police. The period of stay is undetermined.

  • International Technical Cooperation (NR 19)

    This Residence Permit is applicable to some nationalities, allowing them to apply for a Temporary Residence Authorization directly at the Federal Police department in Brazil. Eligibility for this Residence Permit requires an individual case-by-case analysis of whether any specific agreement applies that would replace the need of having a Residence Authorization through the Ministry of Labor.