Brazil's nomad visa isn't new — it's been open since 2022

Guides· 7 October 2026· by NomadYou Guides

Fragomen recirculated a 'Brazil Digital Nomad Visa: All You Need To Know To Apply' guide. That is not a launch notice. Resolução CNIg 45 has been in the Diário Oficial since January 2022, and the USD 1,500 / USD 18,000 money test in that text is still the one that counts.

What the gazette published

The National Immigration Council’s Resolução CNIg/MJSP nº 45, de 9 de setembro de 2021 is the legal ground for Brazil’s digital nomad temporary visa and residence authorisation. The certified text sits in the Diário Oficial da União: RESOLUÇÃO CNIG MJSP Nº 45 (published 24 January 2022, Seção 1, p. 104).

It defines a nômade digital as an immigrant who can carry out work in Brazil remotely, using information and communication technologies, for a foreign employer. It excludes anyone working for an employer in Brazil, with or without an employment link, and anyone whose labour residence is already covered by another CNIg normative.

This is not an announcement of a visa to come. The Brazil page already marks the programme active. Consular posts under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still take VITEM XIV files; one English sheet that reprints the same income figures and points at the e-consular form is the New York mission’s Nômade Digital / Digital Nomad page.

The money test the resolution prints

Article 5 sets how you prove digital-nomad status. Among the required papers:

• a declaration that you can do the work remotely through ICT;
• an employment or services contract, or other documents showing a link with a foreign employer;
• proof of means of subsistence from a foreign paying source of at least USD 1,500 a month, or bank funds of at least USD 18,000.

Those dollar amounts are the Council’s. The resolution prints no other currency and no family uplift, so neither do we invent one here. The savings figure is an alternative to the monthly income, not an extra bar on top. The Brazil page converts the current reading into your currency.

How long it lasts, and the two doors

Article 3 (consular temporary visa) and Article 4 (residence authorisation for someone already in Brazil) both set the initial residence at up to one year. Article 6 allows renewal for an equal period if the listed papers are filed again, including a copy of the Carteira de Registro Nacional Migratório (CRNM).

So the route is not one portal for everyone:

• From abroad: file for the temporary visa with a Brazilian consular authority (Art. 3), with travel document, health insurance valid in Brazil, consular fee proof, the visa form, proof of transport into Brazil, a criminal-record certificate (or equivalent at the post’s discretion), and the Art. 5 digital-nomad proofs.
• Already in Brazil: Article 4 lets you ask the Ministry of Justice and Public Security for the residence authorisation on the same category, with its own document list (including legalised and sworn-translated proof of filiation unless the travel document already carries parents’ names, a GRU fee receipt, and five-year criminal-record papers).

The New York mission page still sends applicants through the Integrated Consular System form and an in-person consular hand-over for that post. Fee tables are set per mission under Brazil’s reciprocity practice; the New York sheet prints US$290 for that post. Do not treat that figure as national.

Article 2 also says the remote work this resolution covers may be done while in Brazil as a visitor, subject to each nationality’s visit-visa and stay rules. That is not the same as holding VITEM XIV residence.

“All you need to know” on the calendar

Fragomen’s piece recirculating on 7 October 2026 frames Brazil as a how-to-apply destination and correctly names the USD 1,500 / USD 18,000 test and the one-year-plus- renewal shape. The novelty is in the secondary headline, not in whether you can apply. The Council resolution that creates the category has been in the DOU since January 2022.

Where Fragomen’s marketing copy goes past the gazette — lifestyle pitches, applicant demographics, or family work rights the resolution does not spell out — the DOU text still binds. If a mission is applying a narrower reading (for example New York’s note that the option is “not available to business owners”), that is still that post’s practice until CNIg or MRE rewrites the sheet.

If you see an official notice we have missed, tell us.

Everything above is taken from Resolução CNIg/MJSP nº 45 in the Diário Oficial da União, checked on 7 October 2026, with the New York MRE VITEM XIV sheet used only for the live consular form link and that post’s printed fee.

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