Brazil investor visa (VITEM IX)

First, an administrator, manager, director or executive with management powers representing a company, group or conglomerate that makes a foreign investment in a company established in Brazil with potential to create jobs or income. Second, an individual who, with their own resources of foreign origin, invests in a Brazilian legal entity in a project with job or income potential, or an entrepreneur who settles in Brazil to invest in innovation or in basic or applied scientific or technological research. Third, an individual who invests their own foreign funds in Brazilian real estate.

Consulates list the approved prior residence authorisation, the online visa form, a valid passport, a round-trip ticket reservation, hotel or other accommodation booking, bank statements for the last 3 months, criminal record certificates from your country of nationality and from all countries where you lived in the last 12 months, and the fee receipt. Additional documents may be requested.

For the real estate route the total value of one or more properties, built or under construction, must be at least BRL 700,000 in the North and Northeast regions or at least BRL 1,000,000 in the other regions of Brazil. The investment must come from your own resources of foreign origin. Amounts for company investments are set in the normative rules applied by the Ministry of Justice; check them on the Ministry's immigration portal before applying.

For an individual investing in a Brazilian company, CNIg Normative Resolution 13/2017 (as amended by Resolution 49 of 25 June 2024) requires a foreign-currency investment of at least R$ 500,000 with a three-year investment or business plan. An entrepreneur investing in innovation or in basic or applied scientific or technological research can qualify from R$ 150,000 if the company meets one condition such as public innovation funding, a technology park, an incubator or a Brazilian start-up accelerator. The investment is proven with the Central Bank-authorised foreign exchange record, and continuing the residence depends on filing proof with the Ministry that the plan is being carried out.

You must first obtain a prior residence authorisation from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. If approved, the Ministry sends it to the consulate. You then submit the visa request; since 1 September 2026 nationals exempt from the visit visa do this electronically through the Integrated Consular System (SCI), uploading documents without handing in their passport.