Do I Have to Live in Brazil?

No. None of the three routes requires you to live in Brazil full time. You can make it your home, or keep the status while living elsewhere: on the startup and company routes, one visit every two years keeps the permit valid. Citizenship is a separate process, and that one does require actual residence in Brazil.

Can I Lose the Capital?

It is a real investment. Shares carry business risk and property carries market risk. The residency depends on the registered investment, not on returns, and we structure the terms so your position holds through the government's review.

Does StartBrazil File the Residency Application?

No. The application is prepared and filed by a licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer we have vetted, who contracts with you directly and represents you before the authorities. StartBrazil finds and confirms the investment, assembles what the lawyer needs and keeps the file moving. We are a private advisory company, not a law firm, a fund or a government agency.

How Long Does It Take?

It depends on the route and on how quickly the investment is in place. Our part, finding and confirming the investment and preparing the file, is a matter of weeks; opening your own company adds the incorporation, and property adds the purchase. The government's review runs on its own timeline, and nobody can commit to a date. What we can do is show you what the published approvals say about your route, with their dates, so you plan on evidence rather than a promise.

Yes, through family reunion. Once your own residence permit is granted, your spouse or partner and your dependent children and parents can apply for residence on the basis of family reunion with you. Their permit is tied to yours and runs for the same period. It is a separate application, with its own documents and fee, quoted when you are ready.

Our Services

We Find the Investment. We Run the Process.

Brazil grants residency to foreign investors in a startup, a company or property. Almost nobody uses it, because the hard part is not the law. It is finding the right investment, confirming it qualifies, and knowing the right people in Brazil. That is our work. When it is time to file, we hand you to an immigration lawyer we have already vetted.

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Why Investors Choose This

Live Full Time in Brazil, or Don't

Every route lets you keep the status without moving to Brazil. What each one asks of you is in the route comparison.

The Investment Is Yours

Shares in a company you choose or build, or a property in your name. An asset, not a fee.

A Permanent Status

The startup and company routes grant residency for an indefinite period on approval. The property route grants a four-year permit that converts to permanent.

One Firm, One Plan

Investment, paperwork, filing and arrival on one timeline, with one person to call.

How StartBrazil Works

Residency through investment takes several professions: lawyers, founders and brokers, accountants, banks. Each does its own part. Nobody owns the whole, and from outside Brazil they are hard to find and harder to judge.

We sit in the middle. We find and confirm the investment, prepare everything around it, and bring in the right partner from our network at the right moment. You deal with one firm.

Our founder went through the process himself, and we track every investor-residency approval Brazil publishes. About us.

Scope of Services

Two Scopes, One Engagement

You come to us first. We find and confirm the investment and prepare everything around it. Then we introduce you to a vetted Brazilian immigration lawyer who files your application. The two are engaged and paid separately.

Scope 1 · StartBrazil

Identification and Confirmation of Your Investment

One flat fee for everything below, on every route, quoted at your consultation.

Investor Profile and Route SelectionYour goals, budget and how involved you want to be, and which of the three routes fits them.
Investment IdentificationA shortlist of qualifying startups, companies or properties from our own network in Brazil, with introductions.
Confirmation and Due DiligenceA file on each option: ownership, finances, legal standing, and whether it qualifies for residency.
StructuringTerms that qualify now and hold up at the government's review later. We introduce a lawyer for the agreement.
Capital Transfer SupportThe paperwork your bank asks for, and the official registration of your investment.
Document PreparationYour personal documents, certifications and translations, in order and ready for the filing.
Partner Selection and HandoverIntroduction to a vetted Brazilian immigration lawyer, with your file ready to go.
Coordination to the Residence CardOne point of contact through filing, approval, visa, entry and registration, plus a calendar of what keeps your status.

Scope 2 · Your Immigration Lawyer

The Residency Filing

Your application is prepared and filed by a licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer we have vetted.

It is a separate fee, paid by you directly to the law firm in Brazil, as Brazilian law requires. It is quoted alongside ours, and the filing only starts once your investment is agreed.

Also budget for: government and consular fees, paid to the authorities; certifications, translations and courier, paid as incurred; and the investment itself, which is yours and never passes through us.

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Building Your Own Company?

If you open a company in Brazil, on the company route or the startup route, you are running a business from day one. That takes more than a lawyer.

A Resident RepresentativeRequired until your own residency is granted.
An Accounting FirmBooks, taxes and annual filings, with someone who speaks your language.
A Registered AddressWhere the company lives and receives official mail.
Hiring and PayrollWhen your plan calls for staff.
Banking and Everything ElseThe bank, the registrations, and the people you will not know you need until you need them.

We have a wide network of vetted partners in Brazil and bring in the right one at the right moment. Each is engaged by the company and quoted separately. You never go looking for a professional at the wrong time.

Who Does What

We lead the business side and the coordination. Your lawyer leads the filing. The Brazilian government decides.

Step

StartBrazil

Your Lawyer

You

Government

Choose the route and set the strategy

Find and confirm the investment

Structure and sign the investment

Transfer and register the capital

Prepare the documents

File the residency application

Decide the application

Visa, entry and registration in Brazil

Keep the status

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Why Not Just Hire a Lawyer?

Each professional covers one part. We cover the whole.

What it takes

Immigration Lawyer

Files the application.

Broker or Founder

Sells you an asset.

One firm

StartBrazil

Runs the whole process.

Finds and confirms the investment for you

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Their own

✓

Structures it to qualify, and to pass the government's later review

Partly

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✓

Prepares the bank and investment-registration file

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✓

Files and represents you before the immigration authority

✓

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Via our partner

Brings the accountants, representatives and other partners a company needs

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✓

Coordinates every party on one timeline

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✓

Knows the full record of who gets approved, and where

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✓

You still need the lawyer. What you do not need is to find one, brief them, and manage the process yourself.

Three Routes, One Service

From about US$30,000

Startup Investor

Invest in an innovative Brazilian startup, or open your own. The lowest threshold and the least used route. Permanent on approval.

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About US$95,000

Company Investor

Invest in, acquire or set up a Brazilian company. The established route for operators. Permanent on approval.

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About US$190,000

Real Estate Investor

Buy qualifying property; about US$135,000 in the North and Northeast. Brazil's most used route. A four-year permit, convertible to permanent.

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What Investors Ask First

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Find Your Route

Two minutes with the free pathway finder, or forty-five with us. If you go ahead, the consultation fee is credited against your engagement.

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Simplify Your
Path to Brazil.

StartBrazil helps international investors find and structure the right investment for residency in Brazil: a startup, a company, or property.

info@startbrazil.com

phone number

+1 (646) 466-5058

Headquarters

500 7th Ave, Flr 8

New York, NY 10018

United States