Brazil digital nomad visa & residency (2026)

Brazil enacted a decree creating the National Policy for Migrations, Refuge and Statelessness and amending Decree 9.199/2017 (which regulates the Migration Law), enabling many foreigners—including remote workers—to apply for residence digitally via the Portal Migrante rather than at a consulate.

After three postponements, the reciprocity-based visa requirement (originally Decreto 11.515/2023) took effect, requiring nationals of the three countries to obtain an eVisa to enter Brazil—affecting how digital nomads enter and re-enter while holding or renewing residence.

The government announced streamlined temporary-residence processing for nationals of Mercosur and Portuguese-speaking countries, having granted nearly 65,000 regularizations between Jan 2023 and Aug 2024 under the Mercosur Residence Agreement framework.

An interministerial ordinance set out the consular procedures and document list for the digital nomad temporary visa (VITEM XIV), including the foreign-employer link, US$1,500/month income or US$18,000 savings, and mandatory health insurance.

CNIg Normative Resolution 45 was published in the Diário Oficial da União (No. 16) and took effect, formally creating Brazil's temporary visa and residence authorization for remote workers earning from foreign sources—valid one year, renewable for one more.

Brazil's National Immigration Council approved the resolution defining a 'digital nomad' as a foreigner who works remotely for an employer abroad with no Brazilian employment tie, setting the financial thresholds and one-year residence term that still govern the visa.

The implementing decree detailed visa categories and residence-authorization procedures under Law 13.445/2017, establishing the regulatory machinery later used to create specialized permits such as the digital nomad visa.

Brazil enacted a rights-based immigration law repealing the 1980 Foreigners' Statute, creating modern temporary-visa and residence categories (work, study, investment, family, etc.) that form the legal foundation for all current residency pathways including remote work.

A decree domesticated the Mercosur Residence Agreement, giving nationals of member and associated South American states a simplified two-year temporary residence convertible to permanent—still the most-used residency route into Brazil for the region.

The Foreigners' Statute, enacted under the military government and grounded in national-security doctrine, governed foreign residence for nearly four decades and is the restrictive framework the 2017 Migration Law was designed to overturn.