Country-wide policy
The Migration Fees, and Why They Have Not Moved Since 2017
Two fees cover almost every residence application: R$ 168,13 to process it and R$ 204,77 to issue the residence card. They are set in the annex to the 2017 regulation, and the interesting thing is that the Federal Police and the justice ministry both charge exactly those amounts nine years later. Instrument and agency agree, which is not what we found in Paraguay. The regulation allows the amounts to be adjusted and nobody has adjusted them, so in real terms the fee has fallen by more than half. Citizens of the Portuguese-speaking community are exempt from the processing fee under a 2002 treaty, but not from the card fee - the treaty excepts the cost of issuing documents, and the Federal Police applies exactly that carve-out.
Topics it changes
- Residency on passive income
- Residency as a retiree
- Residency through work
- Residency through investment
- Residency as a student
- Residency through marriage
- Residency through ancestry
- Residency under a regional treaty
What it requires
- A Guia de Recolhimento da União for each fee, paid before the application is filed
- No processing fee for nationals of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries
- The residence card fee regardless, including for those nationals
At a glance
- Processing a residence application
- R$ 168,13
Revenue code 140066; the same figure appears in the annex to Decreto 9.199/2017, on the Federal Police fee page and on the justice ministry's service pages
- Issuing the residence card
- R$ 204,77
Revenue code 140120, and the same three sources agree
- Change since 2017
- None
- Renewing a residence period
- No processing fee
- Holder of a temporary visa for the same purpose
- No processing fee
- CPLP nationals
- Exempt from the processing fee only
What the law says
«| Processamento e avaliação de pedidos de autorização de residência | R$ 168,13 |»Our translation - not official
| Processing and assessment of residence authorisation applications | R$ 168.13 |
About this source
Publishes the compiled text of laws and decrees with amendments woven in and superseded wording struck through on the same page.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for what is in force without reading the strike-throughs: the page stacks every historical wording of an article above the current one, so quoting the wrong layer produces a repealed rule that still passes a verbatim check. It is also not the point of legal effect; that is the gazette.
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«| Emissão de cédula de identidade de imigrante | R$ 204,77 |»Our translation - not official
| Issue of immigrant identity card | R$ 204.77 |
About this source
Publishes the compiled text of laws and decrees with amendments woven in and superseded wording struck through on the same page.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for what is in force without reading the strike-throughs: the page stacks every historical wording of an article above the current one, so quoting the wrong layer produces a repealed rule that still passes a verbatim check. It is also not the point of legal effect; that is the gazette.
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«Os valores das taxas de que trata o»Our translation - not official
The amounts of the fees referred to in the
The sentence continues "caput poderão ser ajustados pelo órgão competente da administração pública federal, de forma a preservar o interesse nacional ou a assegurar a reciprocidade de tratamento". The power to adjust exists and has not been used.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Publishes the compiled text of laws and decrees with amendments woven in and superseded wording struck through on the same page.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for what is in force without reading the strike-throughs: the page stacks every historical wording of an article above the current one, so quoting the wrong layer produces a repealed rule that still passes a verbatim check. It is also not the point of legal effect; that is the gazette.
We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source
«(Valor da Taxa: R$ 168,13 – Código da Receita STN 140066).»Our translation - not official
(Fee amount: R$ 168.13 - STN Revenue Code 140066).
The agency's own figure, matching the decree exactly. This is the comparison worth making: Paraguay's statute and its fee schedule disagree, Brazil's do not.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Registers immigrants, issues the residence card, extends visitor stays and collects the fees.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Several of its pages are behind authentication and return a login wall rather than content, including the one page that names every nationality the Mercosur agreement covers. Its fee page misdates Decreto 6.771 to 2005 when the decree is of 2009, so its citations need checking against the consolidator before use.
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«Os
cidadãos dos Estados Membros da CPLP, residentes nos outros Estados Membros,
estão isentos do pagamento de taxas e emolumentos devidos na emissão e renovação
de autorizações de residência, com exceção dos custos de emissão de documentos.»Our translation - not official
Citizens of CPLP Member States, resident in the other Member States, are exempt from payment of fees and charges due on the issue and renewal of residence authorisations, with the exception of the costs of issuing documents.
The exception at the end of the sentence is exactly why the card fee survives the exemption. The parties named in the treaty text are Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé e Príncipe.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Publishes the compiled text of laws and decrees with amendments woven in and superseded wording struck through on the same page.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for what is in force without reading the strike-throughs: the page stacks every historical wording of an article above the current one, so quoting the wrong layer produces a repealed rule that still passes a verbatim check. It is also not the point of legal effect; that is the gazette.
We re-read it every 45 days. More about this source
Practical notes
The Federal Police fee page cites the CPLP agreement as promulgated by "Decreto nº 6771, de 16 de fevereiro de 2005". The decree is of 16 February 2009. The year on that page is wrong, and the justice ministry's own legislation page gives 2009.
Mercosur students and teachers have their own exemption, from the visa rather than the residence fee, under a separate 2020 decree the Federal Police page cites.
The fee page itself was last updated in July 2020, six years before we read it, yet its figures still match the decree.