Residency Through Ancestry
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Brazil on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Brazil to Bolivia · Residency through ancestry
Bolivia has no ancestry visa, and for the closest relatives it does not need one: a child born abroad to a Bolivian mother or father is Bolivian, and the step is registration rather than application. Beyond that, descent gives nothing of its own. A grandchild of Bolivians is a foreigner like any other, and the route that fits is the family ground, which reaches blood relatives of a Bolivian living in Bolivia - a sibling or a child, not an ancestor several generations back.
At a glance
- Ancestry visa
- None
The visa classes in article 9 of Decreto Supremo 1923 and the purposes in article 13 contain no category for a descendant. Article 25, quoted here, treats a child born abroad to a Bolivian parent as already Bolivian and provides for the nationality to be registered with SERECI.
- Child of a Bolivian parent
- Bolivian - registered, not naturalised
- Where registration is done
- The civil registry service, or a Bolivian consulate up to age 18
- Grandchild of Bolivians
- No entitlement of its own
- Blood relatives the family ground names
- Brother, sister, son, daughter - and for a foreign resident also father and mother
Requirements
- If a parent is Bolivian: register the birth with the civil registry service, or at a Bolivian consulate up to the age of eighteen
- If a closer relative lives in Bolivia: use the family ground, with a legalised birth certificate proving the blood link and the relative's Bolivian identity card
- There is no route based on a grandparent or more distant ancestor
Country-level policy
Bolivia does not set migration fees in money. It sets them in Unidades de Fomento a la Vivienda, an inflation-indexed unit whose value in bolivianos is published daily, and you pay the boliviano equivalent on the day you pay. Every figure on this country's pages is therefore a number of UFV: quoting it in bolivianos without saying so would be publishing a number that goes quietly stale.
Whatever route you take, the migration directorate attaches the same condition to it: you have to file a sworn statement of your current address on its online platform. The notice appears word for word on every residence procedure Bolivia publishes, from a 30-day tourist extension to naturalisation, and it names the decree that introduced it.
On 30 March 2026 Bolivia created a government-wide deregulation programme called Tranca Cero. It builds a single national catalogue of procedures and provides that, once that catalogue is fully in place, no requirement outside it may be demanded. The migration directorate has put a notice at the top of its own procedures page saying its published requirements are the ones currently in force and that the changes coming out of the programme will be added when the implementing rules appear. Everything on Bolivia's pages should be read against that.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Brazil
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«El registro de la nacionalidad boliviana para las hijas o hijos nacidos en el extranjero de madres bolivianas o padres bolivianos, se efectuará ante el SERECI, de acuerdo a Reglamentación del Tribunal Supremo Electoral o hasta los dieciocho (18) años ante representación consular boliviana.»Our translation - not official
Registration of Bolivian nationality for sons or daughters born abroad to Bolivian mothers or Bolivian fathers shall be carried out before SERECI, in accordance with the Regulation of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, or up to eighteen (18) years of age before a Bolivian consular representation.
The word is "registro". Nationality is treated as already existing and being recorded, which is why this sits outside the migration procedures entirely.
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A labour-law database that holds national gazettes' own PDFs. Used here only where a country's gazette and consolidator were both unreachable, so that the artefact quoted is still the gazette's own file even though the host is not the gazette.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
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«Permanencia temporal por familia, dirigida a personas extranjeras que se encuentren en territorio boliviano por vínculos de parentesco consanguíneo, civil o de adopción, por dependencia económica, afinidad o por matrimonio, cuya vigencia se otorga de acuerdo a la solicitud debidamente fundamentada;»Our translation - not official
Temporary stay for family, directed at foreign persons who are in Bolivian territory by ties of blood, civil or adoptive kinship, economic dependence, affinity or marriage, whose validity is granted in accordance with the duly reasoned application;
Blood kinship is a ground, but the directorate's own list names the qualifying relatives, and they are the immediate ones.
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A labour-law database that holds national gazettes' own PDFs. Used here only where a country's gazette and consolidator were both unreachable, so that the artefact quoted is still the gazette's own file even though the host is not the gazette.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
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Practical notes
The negative claim rests on the migration regulation's list of visa classes and grounds of stay, and on the migration directorate's published catalogue of procedures for foreigners. Neither has an ancestry entry.
The constitutional provisions on Bolivian nationality by origin were not read. What is recorded here is the registration mechanism the migration regulation points at, not the constitutional test for who is Bolivian by birth.
The migration directorate's family requirement lists name the qualifying blood relatives explicitly - brother, sister, son, daughter where the relative is Bolivian; father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter where the relative is a foreign resident. A grandparent appears nowhere.
- reportsDecreto Supremo N° 1923 - Reglamento de la Ley N° 370 de Migración (Gaceta Oficial, via ILO NATLEX)
Gaceta Oficial del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (copy held by ILO NATLEX)
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Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
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- administersTrámites Migratorios Internacionales - catálogo general para personas extranjeras
Dirección General de Migración (Bolivia)
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The migration directorate. Runs the migration system and publishes the requirement and fee catalogue for every procedure, differentiated by the applicant's nationality - which is how the difference between an Andean, a Mercosur and an ordinary applicant becomes visible at all.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the text of any instrument: it paraphrases and mis-titles them, calling SEGIP's counterpart the "Dirección Nacional de Migración". Cannot be cited for the visa-group lists, which it never publishes, nor for how tourist requirements differ by nationality - its tourist rows are identical for every country and demand a consular visa even of visa-exempt ones, which contradicts Decision 878. Two of its requirement fields ship with developer placeholder text still in them. The citable text is a JSON feed on a non-standard port, so a publisher-origin match will not find it.
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