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# Brazilian Immigration Lawyer for Foreigners Moving to Brazil

An OAB-licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer who prepares and files four residency routes, at one published fee. This page also tells you when you do not need one.

No Brazilian residency route legally requires a lawyer, and straightforward cases are filed successfully without one every day. What a lawyer changes is what happens when the case is not straightforward: mixed or self-employed income, dependants, a relationship that has to be evidenced, or a formal request for more information that has to be answered in writing. GetBrazilVisa is a Brazilian residency practice led by **Camila Araujo Mota, enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil under OAB/CE 50.065**, who reads and files every case herself. The fee is **USD 599, paid once**, for the digital nomad, retirement and marriage or family reunion routes; investor cases are quoted individually. You probably do not need us if you are a single applicant, salaried by one foreign employer, with no dependants, filing in your own country.

Last reviewed: September 20, 2026 OAB/CE 50.065 USD 599, paid once

![Camila Araujo Mota, OAB-licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer](https://getbrazilvisa.com/assets/camila-headshot-BJfahbXt.webp)

Written and reviewed by [Camila Araujo Mota](https://getbrazilvisa.com/camila-araujo-mota)

OAB-Licensed Immigration Lawyer · [OAB/CE 50.065](https://cna.oab.org.br/Cnabusca/Resultado.aspx) · Reviewed September 20, 2026

Check if I qualifySee what it costs

Free eligibility check in about five minutes. Camila reads every case herself before any fee is quoted.

## Clients who got their Brazil visa with Camila

**5.0 stars from 9 verified Google reviews.** Real applicants on the VITEM XIV digital nomad visa, in their own words. Every review below is posted publicly on our [Google Business Profile](https://share.google/aXvWUzYKyrRLGwQnF).

![Elizabeth, GetBrazilVisa client, in her video testimonial](https://getbrazilvisa.com/assets/elizabeth-testimonial-poster-DYt8ov_t.webp)2:08

Approved from inside Brazil, on a US passport.

Elizabeth · American · In-country application

Client videoApproved August 2026

![Storm, a GetBrazilVisa client, holding his approved Brazil digital nomad visa outside the Consulate General of the Federative Republic of Brazil in South Africa](https://getbrazilvisa.com/assets/storm-brazil-consulate-south-africa-D-LJzMSv.webp)Visa in hand

Visa collected at the Brazilian consulate in South Africa.

Storm · VITEM XIV · Consulate route

Client photoApproved August 2026

Google review

“Best experience with a Lawyer I have had, successfully allowed me to get my Digital Nomad residence in Brazil. I applied with her for the Brazil digital nomad visa from in-country as a US Citizen with W2 employment.”

Ethan Emick

Verified by Google2 weeks ago

Google review

“without the help of camila and her legal team, I surely would have failed this visa process. The forms and requirements, And all the documents are so complicated you really need a legal advisor to help you do it correctly.”

Riley Eusden

Verified by Google1 month ago

Google review

“Camila kept my applications organized, ensured everything was filed on time, secured and prepared me for my appointments with the Federal Police, and made sure I had every document I could possibly need.”

Seth Rush

Verified by Google2 months ago

Google review

“I moved to Brazil from Denmark on the digital nomad visa in October of 2025 with the help of Camila. From preparing my documents to getting my Brazilian ID card, she helped me with every step.”

DJ

Verified by Google3 months ago

![Marjorie and Joshua, GetBrazilVisa clients, holding their approved Brazil digital nomad visas after collecting them from the Brazilian consulate in Manila](https://getbrazilvisa.com/assets/marjorie-joshua-brazil-consulate-manila-Cwe-yFMM.webp)Approved together

Approved together at the Brazilian consulate in Manila.

Marjorie and Joshua · VITEM XIV · Consulate route

Client photoApproved August 2026

Approval times vary by consulate and by case. [Read all 9 reviews on Google](https://share.google/aXvWUzYKyrRLGwQnF)

![Camila Araujo Mota, OAB-licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer](https://getbrazilvisa.com/assets/camila-headshot-BJfahbXt.webp)

Camila Araujo Mota

OAB-licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer · OAB/CE 50.065 · [verify](https://cna.oab.org.br/)

[5.0](https://getbrazilvisa.com/#reviews)

Registered firm

CNPJ 49.615.316/0001-87 · Brazil

Free eligibility check

No payment until you qualify

Quick reply

English and Portuguese

A lawyer, not an agency

Confidential lawyer-client relationship

## Do You Actually Need a Lawyer?

Start with the honest answer, because most pages selling legal services will not give it to you. Brazilian immigration law does not require you to be represented. The MigranteWeb portal is open to the applicant, consulates accept applications directly, and thousands of people complete a residency application every year without ever speaking to a lawyer.

So the useful question is not whether a lawyer is required. It is whether your case is the kind that goes wrong without one.

### You probably do not need us

-   One applicant, no dependants
-   Salaried by a single employer outside Brazil
-   Documents in one country, in one language
-   Filing at a consulate in your own country
-   No prior refusal and no time pressure

### You probably do

-   Self-employed, freelance or multi-currency income
-   A spouse, partner or children coming with you
-   A route that turns on a relationship being genuine
-   Any Brazilian employer, client or payee in your income
-   A refusal already on the record, or a deadline you cannot miss

If you are in the left-hand column, read the guide for your route and file it yourself. We would rather tell you that now than take a fee for work you did not need.

## What an OAB Lawyer Can Do That Nobody Else Can

In Brazil this is a question of law, not of marketing. Legal advice and legal representation are reserved professions, and the line is drawn by statute rather than by custom.

Official Rule

Under **Lei 8.906/1994**, the statute governing the legal profession in Brazil, legal consultancy, legal advisory work and representation before the courts are private activities of lawyers enrolled with the **Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil**. Nobody outside the OAB may lawfully advise you on how Brazilian immigration law applies to your case, whatever they call themselves and whatever they charge.

Four things follow from that, and they are the practical reason to hire one.

### A legal petition can be appended to your filing

A residency application is a set of forms and documents. A lawyer can attach a written legal argument explaining why the law grants your case what it asks for. An agent cannot write one, because writing it is practising law.

### A request for more information gets a written answer

The authority can issue a diligência asking for clarification. That is the moment most self-filed cases fail, because the applicant sends another document instead of an argument. A written reply from counsel is the difference between a pause and a refusal.

### Discretion can be addressed

Several parts of Brazilian immigration practice are discretionary. Where an officer weighs evidence, what matters is how the file is framed, which is legal work rather than administrative work.

### What you say is privileged

Professional secrecy attaches to what you tell a lawyer. It does not attach to what you tell a relocation consultant, which matters if your situation has anything awkward in it.

None of this makes a lawyer necessary for a simple case. It makes one necessary for a contested one.

## Your Lawyer: Camila Araujo Mota, OAB/CE 50.065

![Camila Araujo Mota, OAB-licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer](https://getbrazilvisa.com/assets/camila-headshot-BJfahbXt.webp)

Camila is a Brazilian immigration lawyer based in Fortaleza, Ceará, enrolled with the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil under [OAB/CE 50.065](https://cna.oab.org.br/Cnabusca/Resultado.aspx), which you can verify yourself in the public register. She has filed the digital nomad visa since the category was created in January 2022, and now prepares all four residency routes for foreigners moving to Brazil.

She reads every case herself. There are no junior associates, no templates handed to non-lawyers, and no ticket queue between you and the person whose name is on your application.

[Read her full background, credentials and authored guides →](https://getbrazilvisa.com/camila-araujo-mota)

## The Four Routes She Files, and the One She Does Not

Each route has its own guide with the income tests, documents and timelines. This page stays on the representation; the detail lives where it belongs.

## Other routes to living in Brazil

GetBrazilVisa handles four residency routes for foreigners. If this page is not your case, one of these is.

Whichever route fits, it is prepared and filed by our [Brazilian immigration lawyer](https://getbrazilvisa.com/brazil-immigration-lawyer).

[

### Digital Nomad Visa (VITEM XIV)

Remote income from outside Brazil. One year, renewable once.

](https://getbrazilvisa.com/brazil-digital-nomad-visa)[

### Retirement Visa (RN 40/2019)

About US$2,000 a month in transferable pension income.

](https://getbrazilvisa.com/brazil-retirement-visa)[

### Marriage & Family Reunion (VITEM XI)

Married to, in a união estável with, or a parent or child of a Brazilian.

](https://getbrazilvisa.com/brazil-residency-by-marriage)[

### Golden Visa (VIPER)

BRL 500,000 in a company or BRL 700,000 in property. Permanent from day one.

](https://getbrazilvisa.com/brazil-investor-visa)[

### Which Brazil visa do I need?

The four routes side by side, with the eligibility test for each.

](https://getbrazilvisa.com/which-brazil-visa-do-i-need)

### The route we do not file

Brazilian work visas (VITEM V) need a Brazilian employer to sponsor the applicant through the Ministry of Justice, and the employer drives that process from inside Brazil. We publish [a full guide to the work visa](https://getbrazilvisa.com/brazil-work-visa) because people ask about it constantly, but we do not file it and we do not take a fee for it. If you are paid from outside Brazil, the digital nomad route is almost always what you actually want, and it is self-sponsored.

## What It Costs, and Why We Publish It

**USD 599, paid once when you sign.** The same figure for the digital nomad, retirement and marriage or family reunion routes, and the same whether the case is filed inside Brazil through MigranteWeb or at a consulate abroad. There is no second payment on approval and no hourly billing. Investor cases are quoted individually, because the file follows the investment.

You will notice that almost no Brazilian immigration firm publishes a price. The usual pattern is a consultation fee before anyone will quote, and then somewhere between USD 1,200 and 1,500 to file. We publish ours because a person deciding whether to hire a lawyer deserves to know what it costs before they give anyone their phone number.

### Included

-   The eligibility read, before you pay anything
-   The document list for your route and filing point
-   Review of every document before it is filed
-   The filing itself, with a legal petition appended
-   Written replies to any request for more information
-   Federal Police and CRNM guidance after approval

### Not included

-   Government fees, roughly USD 80 in total
-   Sworn translations, about USD 30 to 40 a document
-   Your criminal background certificate and its apostille
-   Consular fees where the route is filed abroad

One lawyer, one fee, four routes

Full Service: **$599**, paid once when you sign. Same price in Brazil (MigranteWeb) or abroad (consulate). Most big firms charge $75 just to talk to you, then $1,200 to $1,500 to file. Camila, our OAB-licensed immigration lawyer, personally handles your case.

Check if I qualifySee what's included

## What Representation Actually Looks Like

1.  1

    ### The eligibility read, free

    You answer about eleven questions. Camila reads the answers herself and tells you which route fits, whether your case is one that needs a lawyer, or that we are not the right people for it. No fee is quoted before this.

2.  2

    ### Engagement and payment

    If you go ahead, you sign an engagement letter and pay USD 599 once. That letter says what we are doing and what we are not, which is worth reading rather than skimming.

3.  3

    ### Documents

    You get the list for your route and your filing point, in order, with the apostille and translation steps timed so nothing expires before it is used. Every document is reviewed before anything is filed.

4.  4

    ### Filing

    The case is filed through MigranteWeb inside Brazil or at the consulate abroad, with a legal petition appended. If a request for more information comes back, we answer it in writing at no extra cost.

5.  5

    ### Federal Police and the card

    After approval you register with the Federal Police inside the deadline for your route, give biometrics, and collect the CRNM. We walk you through that appointment, because missing its window causes real problems.

## Read This Before You Hire Anyone

These are the things we would rather you hear now than discover halfway through a case. They apply whoever you hire, including if that is nobody.

No lawyer can guarantee an outcome

The decision belongs to the Brazilian authority. Anyone who promises approval is telling you something they cannot know. What a lawyer can promise is the quality of the file and the speed of the answer when the authority asks a question.

A Brazilian payer in your income is a hard problem

On the digital nomad route, Resolution RN 45/2021 requires income from outside Brazil. Any Brazilian employer, client or payee in the file is a substantive obstacle, not a paperwork one. Tell your lawyer before you file. Sometimes it means a different route; sometimes it means waiting.

Residency has tax consequences you should decide on deliberately

Crossing 183 days in a twelve-month period generally makes you a Brazilian tax resident on worldwide income. That is a decision to take with a cross-border tax professional before you move, not a side effect to discover afterwards. We are immigration counsel, not tax advisers.

Relationship routes are tested for authenticity

Marriage and stable union cases are examined on the evidence that the relationship is real. A thin file fails even when the relationship is genuine, which is the most avoidable refusal we see.

We say no, and here is when

We do not file work visas, corporate immigration or tourist visa extensions. We also do not take humanitarian or refugee family reunification cases, which run on a different legal track and are served free in Brazil by the Defensoria Pública da União and by UNHCR. If that is your situation, go to them rather than paying anyone.

## Lawyer, Despachante, Consultant, or Yourself

|  | OAB lawyer | Despachante | Relocation consultant | Yourself |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| May advise you on the law | Yes | No | No | n/a |
| May sign a legal petition | Yes | No | No | No |
| Can answer a diligência in writing | Yes | Limited | No | Yes, yourself |
| Bound by professional secrecy | Yes | No | No | n/a |
| Typical cost | USD 599 here, 1,200 to 1,500 elsewhere | Varies, usually per errand | Often bundled into a move package | Government fees only |
| Best when | The case is contested, complex or has dependants | You need documents chased inside Brazil | You want the whole move handled and the visa is simple | One applicant, one employer, clean documents |

Not sure which route you are even on? Start with [Which Brazil visa do I need?](https://getbrazilvisa.com/which-brazil-visa-do-i-need) before you decide whether to hire anyone.

## The Words Brazil Uses

Half of the confusion in a Brazilian immigration case is vocabulary. These six terms come up in every file.

CRNM

Carteira de Registro Nacional Migratório, the physical residence card the Federal Police issue after your residency is approved. People call it the Brazilian green card. It is proof of status, not the status itself.

RNM

Registro Nacional Migratório, the number printed on the CRNM. It is what Brazilian banks, employers and notaries ask for.

Visa versus residence authorisation

A visa is issued by a consulate abroad and lets you enter. A residence authorisation is granted inside Brazil and lets you stay. Most routes can be taken either way, which is why the same case looks different depending on where it is filed.

Permanent versus indefinite residency

Brazilian law grants residency either for a fixed term or for an indefinite one. Indefinite does not expire, but the card that proves it does, and it still has to be renewed.

Protocolo

The receipt the system issues when a residence request is filed. It is the document that proves you are in regular status while the request is under analysis.

Diligência

A formal request from the authority for more information or a corrected document. It is normal, it is not a refusal, and answering it well is most of what a lawyer is for.

Our dataJune 2026: 49 digital nomad visa approvals published in Brazil's official gazette. [See the live tracker →](https://getbrazilvisa.com/brazil-digital-nomad-visa-statistics#latest)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Do I actually need a lawyer to move to Brazil?

### Can you guarantee my residency will be approved?

### What does the USD 599 include?

### Is a Brazilian immigration lawyer different from a despachante?

### How do I check that a Brazilian lawyer is really licensed?

### Do you file Brazilian work visas?

### Can you help if I am not in Brazil yet?

### What is a diligência and what happens if I get one?

### What happens if my application is refused?

### Does it matter that I have income from a Brazilian client?

### Do you work in English?

### What happens after my residency is approved?

## Sources

Sources: Lei nº 13.445/2017 (Lei de Migração); Decreto nº 9.199/2017; Lei nº 8.906/1994 (Estatuto da Advocacia e da OAB); Resolução Normativa CNIg nº 45/2021; Resolução Normativa CNIg nº 40/2019; the OAB national register at [cna.oab.org.br](https://cna.oab.org.br/Cnabusca/Resultado.aspx). Last reviewed: September 20, 2026.

This page is general information about Brazilian immigration law and procedure. It is not legal advice, and reading it creates no lawyer-client relationship. See our [legal notice](https://getbrazilvisa.com/legal-notice).

## Clients Camila got approved

Verified Google reviews from people Camila has personally represented.

5.0

Based on 9 verified Google reviews

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Best experience with a Lawyer I have had, successfully allowed me to get my Digital Nomad residence in Brazil. I applied with her for the Brazil digital nomad visa from in-country as a US Citizen with W2 employment. Camila is an expert, very diligent, and responsive. Feels like a personal service in comparison to other experiences I have had with immigration attorneys in other countries. I will reuse Camila for my renewal or changing my residency type. I am happy to have found a fair and trustworthy lawyer here in Brazil! I highly recommend Camila (and GetBrazilVisa) for all immigration matters in Brazil. Thanks Camila!!

I can’t recommend Camila highly enough. Her rates were extremely reasonable, and the level of care, responsiveness, and professionalism she provided was exceptional. I initially hired her to help me obtain a Digital Nomad Visa, but during the process I decided to switch to a Family Visa and apply for residency instead. Even though the scope of the work changed, she remained just as attentive and supportive throughout. In fact, I felt compelled to pay her more than our original agreement because I was so impressed with the value she provided. Camila kept my applications organized, ensured everything was filed on time, secured and prepared me for my appointments with the Federal Police, and made sure I had every document I could possibly need. Thanks to her, I successfully obtained both my visitor visa extension and my resident visa. She even went above and beyond by covering my appointment fees when I couldn’t pay with PIX as a foreigner. This was honestly one of the best experiences I’ve ever had with a lawyer. Camila genuinely cares about her clients and stands with you every step of the way. If you need immigration assistance in Brazil, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her.

I moved to Brazil from Denmark on the digital nomad visa in October of 2025 with the help of Camila. She was very professional and even when I had to delay my arrival she accomodated and made sure I was taken care of. From preparing my documents to getting my Brazilian ID card, she helped me with every step. Thank you!

without the help of camila and her legal team, I surely would have failed this visa process. The forms and requirements, And all the documents are so complicated you really need a legal advisor to help you do it correctly. I wish I had hired her at the start of the application instead of halfway through.

I was working from USA running my company and wanted to try a year in Brazil. The digital nomad visa process looked manageable on paper but once I started dealing with getting my documents apostilled through the DVV and figuring out what the Brazilian consulate actually needed, I hit a wall. Camila sorted everything out and was super patient with my million questions. If you plan on moving to Brazil, I highly recommend their service.

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## Find out whether your case needs a lawyer

The eligibility check takes about five minutes and costs nothing. Camila reads the answers herself and tells you which route fits, or that you can file it without us.

Check if I qualifySee what it costs

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