Brazil
Real estate residence authorization
Two thresholds, and the regional split is the whole story. BRL 700,000 in the North and Northeast, BRL 1,000,000 everywhere else. The purchase must be completed before you file, with funds registered through the Central Bank's RDE-IED system.
Real estate residence authorization
BRL 700,000 to BRL 1,000,000700,000 in the North and Northeast, 1,000,000 elsewhere
It is not the VITEM XIV
A large number of English pages call this the VITEM XIV investor visa. In current official use VITEM XIV is the digital nomad and retiree consular label. The real estate path is a residence authorization under CNIg Resolucao Normativa 36 of 2018, as amended by RN 46 of 2021. Filing against the wrong instrument is how applications stall.
The regional discount
The lower threshold exists to push capital toward the North and Northeast. In practice coastal cities like Fortaleza, Recife, Natal and Salvador qualify at roughly USD 135,000, which now undercuts Colombia, for beachfront rather than a mountain city.
The tax problem
Brazil is one of the few countries in the region that taxes residents on worldwide income, at progressive rates up to 27.5 percent, generally triggered on receiving the CRNM resident card. Uruguay, Paraguay, Panama and Costa Rica all run territorial systems. If the relocation is tax motivated, Brazil is usually the wrong answer.
The company route is separate
BRL 500,000 into a Brazilian company under RN 13 of 2017, with continuous economic activity, job creation or revenue expected at renewal rather than a one off injection.
The facts, in one place
| Status | Open |
| Threshold | BRL 700,000 to BRL 1,000,000, 700,000 in the North and Northeast, 1,000,000 elsewhere |
| What it grants | Temporary residence, convertible to permanent |
| Stay requirement | Light, commonly cited at 14 days per 2 years |
| Citizenship | 4 years of residence |
| Governing instrument | Lei 13.445/2017; CNIg Resolucao Normativa 36/2018, amended by RN 46/2021 Primary source |
| Last verified | 17 September 2026 |
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Tell us the budget, the goal and the timeline. If Colombia fits, we introduce you to an immigration lawyer and a broker who has closed for foreign buyers before. If it does not fit, we say so and point you at the program that does.