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# We Counted Every Brazil Digital Nomad Visa Approval Ever Published

Camila Araujo Mota, OAB/CE 50.065 11 min readJuly 9, 2026

**Quick answer:** Brazil published **2,161 initial digital nomad residence authorizations** and **1,097 renewals** in its official gazette between January 2022 and June 2026. New approvals grew every year since 2023, first-half 2026 is running **11% ahead of 2025**, and renewals are growing faster than new grants. This is the first count ever compiled from the primary source, and the [live tracker](/brazil-digital-nomad-visa-statistics) now updates it monthly.

Ask how many digital nomads Brazil has approved and you will get three kinds of answers: an official statistic that stops in 2023 (OBMigra counted 444 registrations that year), a viral number nobody can source (the famous "3,800 nomads"), and a shrug. For a program this important to Brazil's tourism economy, the real number simply was not public.

It was, however, publishable. Every time the Ministry of Justice approves a [digital nomad residence authorization](/brazil-digital-nomad-visa) filed through MigranteWeb, the decision is printed in Section 1 of the Diario Oficial da Uniao, Brazil's official gazette: process number, applicant name, passport, country, date of birth, one line per person. The data was sitting in plain sight, scattered across more than 1,100 daily editions.

So we read them. All of them, from January 2022, the month the visa came into force, through June 2026. Every batch despacho from the General Coordination of Labor Immigration (CGIL), every entry citing Resolucao Normativa 45/2021, classified as a new grant or a renewal, with nationality and age recorded from each published line. Here is what Brazil's digital nomad program actually looks like.

## The headline numbers

| Year | New authorizations | Renewals | Total published decisions |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2022 (launch year) | 439 | 1 | 440 |
| 2023 | 361 | 95 | 456 |
| 2024 | 499 | 342 | 841 |
| 2025 | 584 | 448 | 1032 |
| 2026 (Jan to Jun) | 278 | 211 | 489 |
| All time | 2161 | 1097 | 3258 |

Three things jump out of this table. First, the launch-year number is inflated by a one-time event: 328 approvals landed in May 2022 alone, the backlog of the program's first wave decided in bulk. Second, from 2023 onward the trend is clean growth: 361 new grants in 2023, 499 in 2024, 584 in 2025. Third, the renewal column is the quiet story. Renewals barely existed in 2023, reached 342 in 2024, and hit 448 in 2025, roughly 90% of the previous year's new grants. People are not just trying Brazil; they are staying for year two.

## 2026 so far: the program's best first half

Through June, 2026 has produced 278 new authorizations against 250 in the same period of 2025, a 11% increase. Renewals grew faster: 211 against 174, up 21%. If the second half tracks the seasonal pattern of previous years, 2026 will set a new annual record.

Pro tip: All of these figures update monthly on our [Brazil Digital Nomad Visa Statistics tracker](/brazil-digital-nomad-visa-statistics), which also breaks the data down by nationality, world region, and age, and offers the full dataset as a free CSV download under CC BY 4.0.

## Who is actually coming

Because each published entry names the applicant's country, the dataset settles a question surveys can only estimate. The top five nationalities all time: United States (804), Russia (389), France (277), United Kingdom (225), Germany (213). Americans lead by a wide margin, consistent with what Camila sees in her own practice, where [US remote workers](/us-citizen-remote-work-brazil) are the largest client group. The strong Russian presence is one of the dataset's genuine surprises, and European countries fill most of the remaining top ten.

The gazette also prints each applicant's date of birth, which gives us the program's first real demographic fact: the median age at approval is **36**. This is not a gap-year crowd. It is established professionals in their thirties and forties, which matches the visa's design: [proof of $1,500 per month in foreign income](/requirements-digital-nomad-visa-brazil) and a clean criminal record, documented properly.

## What this dataset does not count

Honesty about scope is what separates data from marketing, so: these numbers cover the in-country route only. A nomad who applies at a [Brazilian consulate abroad](/find-brazilian-consulate) receives a VITEM XIV in their passport through a consular act, and consular acts are not published in the DOU. Total program volume is therefore higher than our count. The official complement is OBMigra's registration statistics, which include consular arrivals but lag by a year or more. Between the two sources, the DOU series is the only one that tells you what happened last month.

Important: If you see a round number like "3,800 digital nomads in Brazil" quoted without a source, it did not come from the DOU, from SISMIGRA, or from OBMigra. We checked. The verifiable numbers are on this page and on the tracker, and they are free to cite.

## The detail in the gazette that changes your deadline

Reading a few thousand despachos teaches you things that matter beyond statistics. The most consequential one: when your MigranteWeb application is approved, your 30-day window to register with the Federal Police starts on the day your name appears in the DOU, not on the day you find out. MigranteWeb's status updates and email notifications can lag the gazette. Applicants who wait for the email burn days off their registration window without knowing it. The full procedure, including what to bring to your appointment, is in our [RNM and Federal Police guide](/brazil-digital-nomad-visa-rnm-federal-police).

A second lesson: the gazette contains rectification notices for entries published with misspelled names and wrong passport numbers. A despacho with your name spelled wrong is not a formality; the Federal Police registers you against the published record. Getting a rectification takes time you may not have inside a 30-day window. It is one more reason the boring parts of an application, exact transliteration of names, passport numbers checked twice, matter more than they look. That diligence is most of what our [lawyer-led service](/brazil-digital-nomad-visa-lawyer) actually sells.

## Methodology, briefly

Every DOU Section 1 edition from January 2022 through June 2026 was searched for CGIL despachos citing Resolucao Normativa 45/2021. Each matching despacho was read in full; each "Processo" entry under an RN 45/2021 heading was counted once and classified as a new grant or renewal by its heading. Rectifications were excluded to prevent double counting, as were the corporate immigration acts that share the same despachos. Only aggregates are published; we do not republish names. The complete methodology, its known limits, and the raw monthly CSV live on the [tracker page](/brazil-digital-nomad-visa-statistics).

Camila reviews each monthly update before it goes live. Journalists who want the media kit, methodology notes, or a quote can reach her directly through the contact options below.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How many digital nomad visas has Brazil approved since the program started?

Between January 2022 and June 2026, Brazil published 2,161 initial digital nomad residence authorizations and 1,097 renewals in the Diario Oficial da Uniao, a combined 3,258 decisions. These figures cover in-country MigranteWeb applications; consular visa issuances are not published in the DOU and would add to the total.

### Is Brazil's digital nomad visa program growing in 2026?

Yes. Comparing the first half of 2026 with the first half of 2025, new authorizations grew 11% (250 to 278) and renewals grew 21% (174 to 211), both measured from published DOU decisions.

### Where does this data come from?

From Section 1 of the Diario Oficial da Uniao, Brazil's official gazette. Every in-country digital nomad approval is published there as a despacho by the Ministry of Justice's General Coordination of Labor Immigration. GetBrazilVisa reads every edition, counts every entry citing Resolucao Normativa 45/2021, and publishes the aggregates monthly.

### Why do these numbers differ from OBMigra's official statistics?

OBMigra counts Federal Police registrations (people who completed their CRNM registration), while this dataset counts published residence-authorization decisions. Registrations also include nomads who obtained their visa at a consulate abroad. The two measures are complementary; neither alone is the full picture.

### What is the biggest month on record for Brazil digital nomad approvals?

May 2022, with 328 new authorizations published in a handful of batch despachos. That spike was the launch backlog: applications filed after the visa's January 2022 debut were decided in bulk once processing began. In steady state, recent months run between 25 and 75 new grants.

### Which nationalities lead Brazil's digital nomad program?

United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom, Germany lead the all-time count. United States alone accounts for 804 of the published decisions.

### Does the DOU publish rejections too?

Formal denial despachos citing RN 45/2021 are almost absent from the gazette. In practice weak applications receive document exigencies (requests for corrections) inside MigranteWeb, and abandoned applications are archived without a published decision, so published denials dramatically understate real rejection risk.

### Can journalists reuse these numbers?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to GetBrazilVisa. The full monthly CSV, the nationality breakdown, and a media kit with methodology notes are available on the statistics tracker page.

## Sources

-   [Diario Oficial da Uniao, Secao 1 (Imprensa Nacional)](https://www.in.gov.br/leiturajornal): primary source for all counts
-   [Resolucao Normativa CNIg 45/2021](https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/-/resolucao-n-45-de-9-de-setembro-de-2021-344067530): the digital nomad rule
-   [OBMigra / Portal de Imigracao](https://portaldeimigracao.mj.gov.br/pt/): official registration statistics (2022 and 2023)

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These figures cover in-country MigranteWeb applications; consular visa issuances are not published in the DOU and would add to the total."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Is Brazil's digital nomad visa program growing in 2026?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes. Comparing the first half of 2026 with the first half of 2025, new authorizations grew 11% (250 to 278) and renewals grew 21% (174 to 211), both measured from published DOU decisions."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Where does this data come from?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"From Section 1 of the Diario Oficial da Uniao, Brazil's official gazette. Every in-country digital nomad approval is published there as a despacho by the Ministry of Justice's General Coordination of Labor Immigration. GetBrazilVisa reads every edition, counts every entry citing Resolucao Normativa 45/2021, and publishes the aggregates monthly."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Why do these numbers differ from OBMigra's official statistics?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"OBMigra counts Federal Police registrations (people who completed their CRNM registration), while this dataset counts published residence-authorization decisions. Registrations also include nomads who obtained their visa at a consulate abroad. The two measures are complementary; neither alone is the full picture."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"What is the biggest month on record for Brazil digital nomad approvals?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"May 2022, with 328 new authorizations published in a handful of batch despachos. That spike was the launch backlog: applications filed after the visa's January 2022 debut were decided in bulk once processing began. In steady state, recent months run between 25 and 75 new grants."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Which nationalities lead Brazil's digital nomad program?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom, Germany lead the all-time count. United States alone accounts for 804 of the published decisions."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Does the DOU publish rejections too?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Formal denial despachos citing RN 45/2021 are almost absent from the gazette. In practice weak applications receive document exigencies (requests for corrections) inside MigranteWeb, and abandoned applications are archived without a published decision, so published denials dramatically understate real rejection risk."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Can journalists reuse these numbers?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to GetBrazilVisa. The full monthly CSV, the nationality breakdown, and a media kit with methodology notes are available on the statistics tracker page."}}]}]}
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