At a glance
- Legal basis: Resolução Normativa CNIg MJSP nº 45/2021 (“RN 45/2021”)
- Income test: $1,500 USD/month from a foreign source, or $18,000 USD in available funds
- Duration: 1 year, renewable once
- Fee: R$168.13 (2026), paid via GRU
- Where you apply: MigranteWeb, run by the Ministry of Justice
- Who issues your ID card: the Polícia Federal, in person, after approval
- Two 30-day deadlines: one to answer a requirement letter, one to register after approval
Part 1: Before you start
What the visa is and who qualifies
The “digital nomad visa” is the everyday name for a residence authorization granted under RN 45/2021 to foreigners who work remotely for an employer or clients outside Brazil. If you are outside Brazil you can apply for a temporary visa at a consulate and convert it after arrival; if you are already in Brazil as a visitor, you can apply directly to the Ministry of Justice without leaving. This guide follows the second route, which is the one most people use.
To qualify you must be able to do your job remotely for a foreign employer or foreign clients, and meet one of two financial tests: foreign-source income of at least $1,500 USD a month, or available funds of at least $18,000 USD. Either is enough on its own. You also need a clean criminal record for the last five years in every country you have lived in, a valid passport, and a document proving your parents’ names. The permit lasts one year, renewable once, does not allow employment with a Brazilian company, and is not on its own a route to permanent residence.
The two authorities
Two separate bodies are involved and they do not share files. The Ministry of Justice decides whether to grant residence; you deal with it through MigranteWeb. The Polícia Federal registers you after approval and issues the physical ID card, the CRNM, in a second process with its own fee and stricter document standards. Ministry approval is the halfway point.
Three things to sort out first
A CPF. This is the Brazilian tax number, and you cannot get the court certificates or pay the fee without one. If you do not have one, apply through the Receita Federal (online, at a Receita office, or at a Brazilian consulate abroad). It is free and usually quick.
A gov.br account. Create one at gov.br using your CPF. It will be a bronze account. Some steps below need silver (prata) or gold (ouro), and upgrading is hardest for foreigners because the usual routes (a Brazilian driving licence or biometric match) often are not available. The quickest upgrade for a foreigner is logging in through a Brazilian bank account, if you have one. If you cannot upgrade, the guide gives workarounds where they are needed.
A master data sheet. Before you fill in a single form, write down the exact values you will use everywhere: full name as in your passport, date of birth, place of birth as in your passport, nationality, marital status, mother’s full name, father’s full name, passport number and expiry, CPF, and your Brazilian address. Every document in this pack must agree with every other one. A declaration that says “married” while the form says “single”, or a birthplace that contradicts the passport, is exactly what a reviewer flags, and because several documents are sworn, the inconsistency is more than cosmetic. Pick one date format (DD/MM/YYYY is the Brazilian convention) and use it throughout.
Timing: start the slow documents first
Three items have real lead times: the state-court criminal certificate (item 1, up to a week by email and longer if the portal fights you), the foreign police certificate (item 1, allow a few weeks for postal delivery), and the apostilled birth certificate (item 6, depends on your country’s legalisation office). Order those on day one. Everything else can be produced in an afternoon. Note also that criminal certificates have a shelf life of roughly 90 days, so do not order them so early that they expire before you file.
Translations: the rule for the whole pack
Every document not in Portuguese needs a Portuguese translation. A tradução simples is a competent free translation that you or anyone competent can produce. A tradução juramentada is a sworn translation by a public translator registered with your state’s Junta Comercial, which costs money and takes days.
The Ministry’s own paperwork is inconsistent about which it wants, sometimes within the same letter. In practice, simple translations have been accepted at the Ministry stage for police certificates, contracts, bank statements and even the birth certificate, despite the item 6 field mentioning a sworn translator. The Polícia Federal requires sworn translations for every foreign document at the CRNM stage. Since you will need sworn versions eventually, the lowest-risk approach is to get them from the start; the cheaper approach that has also worked is simple translations for the Ministry and sworn ones later.
If you do your own simple translation, make it a faithful, complete rendering of the document in the same layout, with a heading such as “Tradução simples do documento em anexo” and your name and the date at the bottom. Where the original has a table (police certificates usually do), reproduce the table.
Part 2: The documents, one at a time
The Ministry’s requirement list has seven numbered items, plus your passport and the fee receipt. Organise your files by these numbers from day one; the reviewer works through them in order and any requirement letter references them the same way. Each MigranteWeb field accepts one file, so where an item has several parts (an original plus its translation, or several certificates) you merge them into a single PDF, original first, translation after. Any PDF tool will do this.
Item 1: Criminal record certificates
What it is. Proof that you have no criminal record in every jurisdiction where you have lived in the last five years. For an applicant who has moved to Brazil from abroad, that means three separate certificates: one from your home country, one from the Brazilian state court where you live, and one from the Brazilian federal court for your region.
The single most common mistake in the whole process is submitting the Polícia Federal’s certidão de antecedentes criminais from gov.br and assuming it covers the Brazilian requirement. It does not. The Ministry wants judicial certificates from the courts, which are different documents.
1a. Your home-country police certificate
Where to get it. From the police or justice authority of the country you lived in before Brazil. UK nationals use the ACRO Police Certificate, applied for online at acro.police.uk and posted to you. Other countries have equivalents (an FBI Identity History Summary in the US, a Police Certificate from the AFP in Australia, and so on). If you lived in more than one country in the last five years, you need one from each.
What it must show. Your full name, date of birth, and a “no trace” or equivalent result. Check that the name and date of birth match your passport exactly.
Translation. Required. A simple translation has been accepted by the Ministry. The certificate usually comes with a cover letter and a results table; translate all of it, including the table.
Validity. Treat it as valid for 90 days. The Ministry has accepted older certificates, but the Polícia Federal applies a strict 90-day limit at the CRNM stage, so you may well need a fresh one after approval.
1b. The state-court certificate (Tribunal de Justiça)
What it is. The Certidão de Antecedentes Criminais, 1º Grau (Justiça Estadual / Comarcas), modelo Criminal, issued by the Tribunal de Justiça of the state you live in. It searches every comarca in the state, so one certificate covers everywhere you have lived within that state. If you have lived in more than one state in Brazil, you need one from each.
Where to get it. Each state court has its own system. For Santa Catarina it is certidoes.tjsc.jus.br; for other states, search “certidão de antecedentes criminais TJ[state abbreviation]” or start from the court’s website. It is free and delivered by email, typically within five business days.
The trap. Many state courts, Santa Catarina’s included, now gate the online request behind a gov.br login at silver or gold level. A bronze account is rejected, and the rejection often looks like an endless login loop, or a “you do not have permission” page for a staff-only portal, rather than a clear message. If that happens to you, do not keep trying; use one of these routes instead:
1. Upgrade your gov.br to silver (bank login is the quickest way) and request it yourself.
2. Ask someone with a silver or gold account to request it for you. On the TJSC portal, after logging in, click “Solicitar certidão para outra pessoa” (“Request a certificate for another person”). The form clears their details so you can enter yours. The certificate is emailed to whatever address you enter, so use your own. Doing this in a private browsing window avoids a cached login from a different account.
3. Contact the court’s certificate division and ask them to issue it manually. For TJSC the contact channels are listed on the certidões information page, and the Central de Atendimento das Comarcas form is the official fallback for requests that cannot go through the standard portal.
4. Go to the local fórum in person with your passport and CPF and ask at the counter for a certidão de antecedentes criminais, 1º grau, modelo criminal. Free, often issued the same day, and it sidesteps gov.br entirely. In Florianópolis that is the Fórum da Capital (Av. Gov. Gustavo Richard, 434, Centro, weekdays 12:00–19:00); call ahead to confirm counter hours.
How to fill in the form. The form assumes a Brazilian applicant, so a few fields need care:
- Judicial instance: Comarcas e Turmas Recursais (Primeiro Grau) / First Instance. Leave Second Instance unticked.
- Certificate model: Criminal only. Leave Civil, Electoral and Bankruptcy unticked.
- Nome: your full name exactly as in your passport
- Tipo de pessoa: Física
- CPF: your CPF
- RG: tick “Declaro não conhecer o RG” (you do not have a Brazilian ID number) and leave the issuing authority blank
- Nacionalidade: change the default from Brazilian to your nationality
- Estado civil: as on your master sheet
- Nome da mãe / Nome do pai: full names, as on your birth certificate
- Data de nascimento: DD/MM/YYYY
- País / Estado / Município de residência: Brasil, your state, your city
- Endereço: your Brazilian address
- E-mail: the address the certificate should be sent to
- Finalidade: a short purpose, for example “Instrução de processo de autorização de residência (RN 45/2021) junto ao Ministério da Justiça”, adding your process number if you already have one
- Tick both declarations (truthful information, and data consent), then send.
What you receive. A one-page PDF headed Certidão Criminal Negativa stating “NÃO CONSTAM ações criminais”, with your name, CPF, date of birth, parents and nationality, a verification code, and a 90-day validity. If someone else requested it, a “Solicitado por” line shows their name; that is normal and does not matter, because the certificate is about you.
Translation. None; it is already in Portuguese.
1c. The federal-court certificate (Tribunal Regional Federal)
What it is. The criminal certificate from the federal court covering your region. Brazil has six TRFs: TRF1 (the north, centre-west and Bahia, Maranhão, Piauí, and the Federal District), TRF2 (Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo), TRF3 (São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul), TRF4 (Santa Catarina, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul), TRF5 (the north-east, from Pernambuco to Ceará) and TRF6 (Minas Gerais). One certificate covers the whole region.
Where to get it. Each TRF issues it online, free and without login. For TRF4 the page is www2.trf4.jus.br/trf4/processos/certidao: enter your CPF, the system pulls your name from the Receita database, choose the Criminal certificate type, and it generates a PDF immediately if there is nothing on record. Other TRFs have the equivalent under “Certidões” on their websites (trf1.jus.br, trf2.jus.br, trf3.jus.br, trf5.jus.br, trf6.jus.br).
Translation. None.
Assembling item 1
Merge everything into one PDF in this order: foreign certificate (original) → its Portuguese translation → state-court certificate → federal-court certificate. Name it something like 01_Certidoes_Criminais.pdf. If you are still waiting for one of the Brazilian certificates when you file, do not file; this is the item that gets applications denied.
Item 2: Proof of means of subsistence
What it is. Evidence that you meet one of the two financial tests: foreign-source income of at least $1,500 USD a month, or available funds of at least $18,000 USD.
Where to get it. For the funds route, download a recent statement from your bank or investment platform showing your name, the account, the date and the balance. For the income route, payslips or invoices for the last few months plus the contract (item 3) showing the monthly amount. A brokerage or ISA statement is fine; it does not have to be a current account. If your balance is well above the threshold, a single recent statement is enough; if it is close, include several months.
What it must show. Your name matching the passport, a date within the last few months, the currency, and the amount. The reviewer will convert to dollars, so make the figure easy to find.
Translation. Required, and a simple translation has been accepted. You do not need to translate every transaction line; a translation that reproduces the header, the account holder details, the date and the key balance figures has been accepted, as long as it is clearly labelled as a translation of the attached statement.
Final file. Statement (original) → Portuguese translation, one PDF, e.g. 02_Comprovacao_Recursos.pdf.
Item 3: Proof of your link to a foreign employer
What it is. Evidence that your work is for a company or clients outside Brazil: an employment contract, a consultancy or services agreement, or, for freelancers, a set of client contracts or engagement letters.
Where to get it. From your employer or your own records. If your contract is old or does not state the remote nature of the work, ask your employer for a short signed letter confirming your role, that you work remotely, your monthly or annual pay, and that the company is based outside Brazil. Attach it behind the contract.
What it must show. The employer’s name and country, your name, your role, the remuneration, and ideally that the work is performed remotely. The pay figure here should be consistent with what you put on the Anexo I form (item 7), so note the monthly amount in your local currency and its rough conversion to reais.
Translation. Required; a simple translation has been accepted. Contracts are long, so translate the full document, but it is acceptable for the translation to follow the original’s structure clause by clause without reproducing letterhead or formatting.
Final file. Contract (original) → Portuguese translation, one PDF, e.g. 03_Contrato_Trabalho.pdf.
Item 4: Declaration that you can work remotely
What it is. A one-page statement, written and signed by you, that you are able to perform your professional activities remotely using information and communication technology. It does not exist until you write it, and the requirement letter will say “não consta nos autos” if you forget it.
How to write it. Use the template below, filling in the bracketed values from your master data sheet. Print it, sign it exactly as your signature appears in your passport, date it, and scan it to PDF.
DECLARAÇÃO DE CAPACIDADE DE TRABALHO REMOTO
Eu, [NOME COMPLETO], de nacionalidade [NACIONALIDADE], estado civil [ESTADO CIVIL], nascido(a) em [DD/MM/AAAA], na cidade de [CIDADE], [PAÍS], filho(a) de [NOME DO PAI] e de [NOME DA MÃE], portador(a) do passaporte nº [NÚMERO], inscrito(a) no CPF sob o nº [CPF], residente em [ENDEREÇO COMPLETO NO BRASIL], DECLARO, para os fins da Resolução Normativa CNIg MJSP nº 45/2021, que possuo capacidade de executar minhas atividades profissionais de forma remota, por meio de tecnologias da informação e de comunicação, para [NOME DO EMPREGADOR OU CLIENTE], empresa sediada em [PAÍS DO EMPREGADOR], sem vínculo empregatício com empregador brasileiro.
[CIDADE], [DD] de [MÊS] de [AAAA].
______________________________
[NOME COMPLETO]
In English, that reads: “I, [name], of [nationality], marital status [x], born on [date] in [city], [country], son/daughter of [father] and [mother], holder of passport no. [x], CPF no. [x], resident at [address], declare for the purposes of RN 45/2021 that I am able to carry out my professional activities remotely by means of information and communication technology, for [employer], a company based in [country], with no employment relationship with a Brazilian employer.”
Translation. None; write it in Portuguese. An English version underneath is optional.
Final file. 04_Declaracao_Trabalho_Remoto.pdf.
Item 5: Declaration of no criminal record
What it is. A second self-written statement, this time made “under penalty of law” (sob as penas da lei), that you have no criminal record in any country in the five years before the application. It is separate from, and in addition to, the certificates in item 1: item 1 is the authorities’ proof, item 5 is your sworn word.
How to write it. Same method as item 4. Because this one is sworn, be especially careful that every biographical fact matches your passport and birth certificate.
DECLARAÇÃO DE AUSÊNCIA DE ANTECEDENTES CRIMINAIS
Eu, [NOME COMPLETO], de nacionalidade [NACIONALIDADE], estado civil [ESTADO CIVIL], nascido(a) em [DD/MM/AAAA], na cidade de [CIDADE], [PAÍS], filho(a) de [NOME DO PAI] e de [NOME DA MÃE], portador(a) do passaporte nº [NÚMERO], inscrito(a) no CPF sob o nº [CPF], residente em [ENDEREÇO COMPLETO NO BRASIL], DECLARO, sob as penas da lei, que não possuo antecedentes criminais em qualquer país nos cinco anos anteriores à data da solicitação de autorização de residência, nos termos da Resolução Normativa CNIg nº 01/2017 e da Resolução Normativa CNIg MJSP nº 45/2021.
Por ser expressão da verdade, firmo a presente declaração.
[CIDADE], [DD] de [MÊS] de [AAAA].
______________________________
[NOME COMPLETO]
In English: “I, [identification as above], declare under penalty of law that I have no criminal record in any country in the five years preceding the date of the residence authorization application, under the terms of RN 01/2017 and RN 45/2021. Being an expression of the truth, I sign this declaration.”
Signature. As in your passport. Print, sign, date, scan.
Final file. 05_Declaracao_Sem_Antecedentes.pdf.
Item 6: Proof of filiation (your parents’ names)
What it is. A document that shows who your parents are. Your passport counts if it lists them; most passports, including British ones, do not, so in practice this means your birth certificate, legalised with an apostille and translated.
Where to get it. From the civil registry of the country where you were born. UK-born applicants can order a certified copy from the General Register Office at gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate. If you were born elsewhere, order it from that country’s registry, even if you hold a different nationality; it is the place of birth that matters.
Apostille. Brazil is a member of the Hague Apostille Convention, so the certificate needs an apostille from the competent authority in the issuing country, not consular legalisation. For UK documents that is the FCDO Legalisation Office at gov.uk/get-document-legalised, done by post. If the issuing country is not in the convention, the document is legalised at the Brazilian consulate there instead. Apostille first, then translate, so the translation covers the apostille too.
Translation. Required. The Ministry’s field text asks for a sworn translation and the requirement letter may say “simple”; a simple translation has cleared review, but this is the item where a sworn translation is most defensible. If you go sworn, find a tradutor público juramentado through your state’s Junta Comercial register (in Santa Catarina, JUCESC) and allow a few days.
Final file. Birth certificate with apostille (original) → Portuguese translation, one PDF, e.g. 06_Certidao_Nascimento.pdf.
Item 7: The application form (Anexo I)
What it is. The Formulário de Requerimento de Autorização de Residência, the form attached as Annex I to RN 45/2021.
Where to get it. From the Portal de Imigração: find Resolução Normativa nº 45/2021 in the list of normative resolutions and scroll to the end of the document, where the form is printed under the heading “Formulário de Requerimento de Autorização de Residência com fundamento na Resolução CNIg MJSP nº 45, de 2021”. Download or print that form. Do not upload the resolution text itself; applicants have signed and submitted the law by mistake, and it fails item 7.
How to fill it in. Take every value from your master data sheet. The form asks for:
- Nome completo: as in your passport
- Filiação: mother’s and father’s full names, as on the birth certificate
- Data de nascimento: check the field’s label. Some versions of the form are labelled MM/DD/YYYY while every other document in your pack uses DD/MM; if there is any ambiguity, write the month as a word or add a note, so nobody reads 1 June as 6 January.
- Local de nascimento / Nacionalidade: city and country as in your passport
- Estado civil: the same status you used in items 4 and 5
- Passaporte: number and expiry
- CPF
- Endereço no Brasil
- Situação migratória atual: Visitante if you are applying from inside Brazil on a tourist entry
- Remuneração mensal: your monthly pay converted to reais at a current rate; it should be consistent with items 2 and 3
- Justificativa / atividade: a sentence describing your remote role and foreign employer
- Assinatura: sign as in your passport
- Termo de responsabilidade: the declaration block at the end of the form, signed and dated
Watch out. If the form is bounced back with no explanation, the cause is almost always the signature not matching the passport. Sign it by hand, not with a typed name.
Final file. 07_Requerimento_Anexo_I.pdf. Before uploading, open the PDF and confirm it is the filled form with your name on it and not the resolution text.
Item 8: Passport
Scan the biographical page in colour, and, if you are applying from inside Brazil, the page with your most recent entry stamp. Check the passport is valid well beyond the application. 08_Passaporte.pdf.
Item 9: The fee (GRU)
What it is. The application fee, paid via a Guia de Recolhimento da União, the federal government’s payment slip.
Where to get it. MigranteWeb links you to the payment system at the right point in the application, or you can go directly to PagTesouro. Fill it in as:
- Unidade Gestora / Órgão: 30000 – Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública
- Gestão: 200143 – Secretaria Nacional de Justiça (SENAJUS)
- Serviço: 031426 – Taxa Autorização de Residência para Estrangeiros
- Contribuinte: your name and CPF
- Valor: whatever the system populates (R$168.13 in 2026)
Pay by Pix (instant), card or boleto. Save the “Pagamento realizado com sucesso” PDF; that receipt is what you upload. Each application needs its own GRU, so if you ever have to re-file, the previous receipt cannot be reused. 09_GRU_Comprovante.pdf.
The finished pack
Before you go anywhere near the portal, lay the nine files side by side and check: every name, date of birth, place of birth, marital status, parents’ names and passport number identical; one date format throughout; every foreign document followed by its translation; every self-written document signed by hand as in the passport; item 1 containing all three certificates; item 7 being the actual form. Ten minutes here saves a 30-day requirement cycle later.
Part 3: Filing in MigranteWeb
1. Go to the Portal de Imigração → Imigração Laboral → MigranteWeb, or directly to migrante.mj.gov.br, and log in (bronze gov.br is fine here).
2. Choose Cadastrar Processo to start a new process.
3. Select Resolução Normativa nº 45/2021 as the legal basis.
4. Enter your personal data from the master sheet.
5. Attach each file to its matching row. The rows are split across two tabs, Requerente (applicant) and Estrangeiro (immigrant); the numbered items 1–7 sit under the immigrant documents, while the passport, GRU and two spare rows labelled “Outros documentos e/ou justificativas 01 / 02” sit under the applicant. Each row takes one file, which is why you merged. The two spare rows are overflow for anything extra or a short explanatory note; leaving them empty is fine.
6. Tick the sob as penas da lei declaration.
7. Click Encaminhar. Uploading alone does nothing; the process only moves when sent.
You will receive a process number in the format 08228.NNNNNN/YYYY-NN. Keep it; you will need it for every later step.
Part 4: The requirement letter (carta de exigências)
Most applicants receive at least one. It is not a rejection but a list of items the analyst considers missing or improperly presented, and it comes with a hard rule: 30 days from the date you acknowledge the notice (ciência), or the application is denied and archived.
Read it item by item and sort the demands into three kinds. Some are translation requests, where the original is on file and only the Portuguese version is missing; upload the translation (or the merged original-plus-translation). Some are for documents not there at all, signalled by “não consta nos autos”; these are usually items 4 and 5, or the court certificates from item 1. And some ask you to redo something you already sent, most often the Anexo I, which almost always means the signature did not match the passport.
To respond, open the process in MigranteWeb and use Cumprir exigência. Rows marked NOK with “resend document” ticked are the ones rejected; replace those, add whatever was missing, check both tabs, and click Encaminhar again. Do not send a partial response, because it simply generates another letter. New documents are not accepted at the appeal stage, so this window is your only chance to complete the file. A second letter asking for a single item means everything else was accepted, but treat it as a final warning: applications have been denied outright for failing to supply the state-court certificate after two letters.
Part 5: Approval and the CRNM card
When the decision is favourable the process status changes to DEFERIDO and the authorization is published in the Diário Oficial da União (in.gov.br); the process page usually links to the publication. Save a PDF of the status page as proof and note the publication date, because a new 30-day clock starts on it.
Within 30 days of publication you must register with the Polícia Federal for your CRNM. Start at the gov.br service Registrar-se como Estrangeiro no Brasil, choose the path for an approved residence authorization, complete the form, generate and pay a second GRU, and book an appointment at your nearest Polícia Federal unit. All of that can be done from abroad. The appointment itself cannot: it requires in-person biometrics inside Brazil and cannot be done at a consulate. Bring your passport, proof of approval, CPF, proof of Brazilian address, a passport photo, the paid GRU and your supporting documents.
The Polícia Federal is stricter than the Ministry on three points: translations must be sworn, filiation must be proved with an apostilled birth certificate if your passport omits your parents, and foreign criminal certificates are valid only 90 days from issue, so order a fresh home-country certificate if yours is older. You receive your RNM number at the appointment and collect the card from the same unit when notified.
Missing the 30-day window does not cancel your residency. The penalty is an administrative fine of roughly R$100 per day, capped at R$10,000, paid at registration; people register late and pay it routinely. Booking the appointment early, even for a date after the deadline, creates a record that you acted as soon as you could. What you should not do is let it drift for months, because prolonged irregular status can lead to your CPF and bank accounts being blocked.
Part 6: If you are denied
A denial for missing documentation is the most recoverable kind, because nothing in it says you do not qualify. An administrative appeal (recurso) has a short deadline, often around ten days from notification, but cannot introduce new documents, so it only helps if the analyst misjudged what you had already submitted. If the problem is a document that was never there, file a fresh application: a new Cadastrar Processo, a new GRU, and the complete pack including whatever was missing. A previous denial on documentation grounds does not bar re-applying. The Defensoria Pública da União offers free help to migrants if you are unsure which route to take.
The short version
- Make a master data sheet and use it for every document.
- Order the three slow items first: state-court certificate, home-country police certificate, apostilled birth certificate.
- Get the federal-court certificate at the same time; it takes two minutes.
- Do not confuse the Polícia Federal’s antecedentes certificate with the court certificates the Ministry wants.
- Write items 4 and 5 from the templates; sign everything by hand, exactly as your passport.
- Download the real Anexo I form, not the resolution text.
- Merge original and translation into one PDF per item.
- Check the finished pack for consistency before filing, then click Encaminhar.
- Answer any requirement letter completely, within 30 days.
- When the process says deferido, book the Polícia Federal appointment the same day.
Useful links
- Portal de Imigração (rules, RN 45/2021, Anexo I form): portaldeimigracao.mj.gov.br
- MigranteWeb (file and manage your application): migrante.mj.gov.br
- CPF (Receita Federal): gov.br/receitafederal
- gov.br account: gov.br
- GRU fee payment (PagTesouro): pagtesouro.tesouro.gov.br
- UK police certificate (ACRO): acro.police.uk
- State-court certificate, Santa Catarina: certidoes.tjsc.jus.br
- TJSC certidões information and contacts: tjsc.jus.br/web/judicial/certidoes
- TJSC fallback request form: cgjweb.tjsc.jus.br
- Federal-court certificate, TRF4 (SC, PR, RS): www2.trf4.jus.br/trf4/processos/certidao
- Other federal courts: trf1.jus.br · trf2.jus.br · trf3.jus.br · trf5.jus.br · trf6.jus.br
- UK birth certificate copy (GRO): gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate
- UK apostille (FCDO Legalisation Office): gov.uk/get-document-legalised
- Polícia Federal registration (CRNM): Registrar-se como Estrangeiro no Brasil
- Diário Oficial da União: in.gov.br
- Defensoria Pública da União (free legal help): dpu.def.br
This article is general information based on the RN 45/2021 process as applied in 2026 and is not legal advice. Fees, deadlines, portal addresses and document standards change; confirm current requirements on the Portal de Imigração and with the Polícia Federal before applying.