Residency Through Investment
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Bolivia 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 Bolivia to Brazil · Residency through investment
Two routes, and they behave differently. Investing R$ 500,000 of foreign money in a Brazilian company, against a three-year business plan judged on the jobs or income it will create, now carries residence for an indefinite term from the start. An innovation or research venture qualifies at a lower figure, which the resolution writes as one hundred and fifty thousand reais in words. Buying urban property worth R$ 1,000,000 is the other route: four years first, then indefinite, and with an obligation almost nobody reports - at least fourteen days in Brazil, consecutive or not, in every two-year period. The property route also sits awkwardly on a statute which says in terms that owning property in Brazil confers no right to residency.
At a glance
- Investment in a Brazilian company
- R$ 500.000,00
- Innovation, basic or applied research venture
- R$ 150.000,00
The consolidated text prints the figure as "RS150.0000,00" with a stray zero and an R with no symbol; the words in the same sentence read cento e cinquenta mil reais, and the words are what we publish
- Term on the company route
- Indefinite
Made indefinite by Resolução CNIG/MJSP nº 49, de 25 de junho de 2024, which rewrote § 4º
- Urban property
- R$ 1.000.000,00
- Urban property in the North and Northeast
- R$ 700.000,00CALC (calculated by us, not published)
Our arithmetic, not a published figure. The caput sets R$ 1.000.000,00 and § 1º allows the minimum to be up to 30% lower in the North and Northeast regions; the resolution never states the resulting amount
- Term on the property route
- Four years, then indefinite
- Presence required on the property route
- At least 14 days, consecutive or not, in each two-year period
Article 6 of Resolução Normativa nº 36, de 2018, in the wording given by Resolução CNIG/MJSP nº 46, de 2021. The two-year period runs from registration with the Polícia Federal, not from the grant, and the company route carries no equivalent presence condition.
- Business plan
- Three years
Figures marked CALC are our arithmetic, not a figure in any instrument. Where the law states a threshold as a multiple of something else, the amount shown is that multiple applied - and it moves when the underlying figure does.
Requirements
- For the company route: at least R$ 500,000 of the investor's own funds of external origin, invested in a Brazilian company, with an investment or business plan covering three years
- For the innovation route: at least the lower figure, and a venture that is incubated, in a technology park, backed by a government innovation programme, a finalist in a government startup programme, or accelerated in Brazil
- For the property route: urban real estate worth at least R$ 1,000,000, built or under construction, held free of encumbrances
- Evidence from an institution authorised by the central bank that the capital came from abroad
- For the property route only: at least fourteen days in Brazil in each two-year period, counted from registration with the Federal Police
In detail
Fourteen days every two years
The property route carries a presence obligation that almost no summary reports: fourteen days in Brazil, consecutive or interspersed, in every two-year period counted from registration with the Federal Police. It is deliberately a floor on presence rather than a ceiling on absence, and meeting it switches off the ordinary rule that residence is lost after two years away. Miss it and the resolution offers a second chance: a fresh four-year authorisation, provided the investment is still held.
Money from outside, proved through the central bank
Both routes require the capital to have come from abroad and to be evidenced by a foreign-exchange operation through an institution authorised by the central bank. The company route adds a business plan judged on the jobs and income it will generate, with the ministry entitled to visit the company on site, and continuity of residence depends on showing the plan was actually carried out.
Country-level policy
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.
Lei 13.445/2017 replaced the 1980 foreigners' statute and changed the thing that shapes every other answer about Brazil: residence can be applied for from inside the country, regardless of the status you are in. Both the statute and its regulation say so in terms. A visitor may turn a visit into residence by request and registration; an irregular overstayer may apply on any ground whose conditions they meet. That is why Brazil has no equivalent of Paraguay's consular visa for residency or Chile's rule that residence is applied for from abroad. The same law abolished the permanent and temporary visa categories, replacing them with residence authorisations of determinate or indeterminate term - which matters because two instruments that still govern real decisions, the revenue's residence test and older agency pages, were never rewritten.
For eight years the detailed conditions of almost every Brazilian residence category were set by resolutions of the national immigration council. Decreto 12.657/2025 went through the regulation and replaced the council with joint acts of the ministries of justice and foreign affairs, article by article - work, investment, study, family, religious activity, volunteering and the residual migration-policy ground all now point at a different rulemaker. The decree did not repeal the existing resolutions, so they remain in force until they are replaced. The practical consequence for a reader is that every figure on the investor, retiree, digital nomad and work pages sits on an instrument whose author no longer has the power to issue it, and any of them may be reissued without notice.
Brazilian residence is lost after more than two years out of the country without a justification offered. It is a rule about continuous absence, not a presence quota, and the difference decides real cases: two separate absences of eighteen months each break nothing, while a single stretch of twenty-five months does. Residence is also lost when the reason it was granted stops being true, and the holder is required to tell the Federal Police when that happens. The one category with an explicit presence obligation instead is the real-estate investor, who must spend at least fourteen days in Brazil every two years and, by doing so, is taken outside the absence rule altogether.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Bolivia
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
«A concessão de autorização de residência prévia a imigrante ficará condicionada à
comprovação de investimento, em moeda estrangeira, em montante igual ou superior equivalente a
R$500.000,00 (quinhentos mil reais), mediante apresentação de Plano de Investimento ou de
Negócios.»Our translation - not official
The grant of a prior residence authorisation to an immigrant is conditional on proof of investment, in foreign currency, in an amount equal to or greater than the equivalent of R$500,000.00 (five hundred thousand reais), on presentation of an Investment or Business Plan.
The money must be in foreign currency and of external origin. Capital already inside Brazil does not qualify.
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Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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«quando o valor do investimento estiver abaixo de R$500.000,00
(quinhentos mil reais), e desde que não seja inferior a RS150.0000,00 (cento e cinquenta mil reais),
para o empreendedor que pretenda fixar-se no Brasil com o propósito de investir em atividade de
inovação»Our translation - not official
where the value of the investment is below R$500,000.00 (five hundred thousand reais), and provided it is not less than R$150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand reais), for the entrepreneur who intends to settle in Brazil for the purpose of investing in innovation activity
The digits in the published consolidated text read RS150.0000,00 - an R without the currency symbol and one zero too many. The figure in words, cento e cinquenta mil reais, is the one to rely on. The typo is the publisher's and is kept.
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Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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«O prazo da residência prevista nesta Resolução será indeterminado.»Our translation - not official
The period of the residence provided for in this Resolution shall be indefinite.
Before the 2024 amendment this residence ran for a fixed term. Guidance written earlier describes a two-stage process that no longer applies to the company route.
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Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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«O Plano de Investimento ou de Negócios, com prazo de execução de 03 (três) anos, deverá
conter os seguintes tópicos:»Our translation - not official
The Investment or Business Plan, with an execution period of 03 (three) years, must contain the following topics:
The three years are the plan's horizon, not the residence's: on the company route the residence itself is indefinite.
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Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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«A concessão de autorização de residência para investimento imobiliário fica condicionada à aquisição de bens imóveis, localizado em área urbana, em montante igual ou superior a R$ 1.000.000,00 (um milhão de reais)»Our translation - not official
The grant of a residence authorisation for real-estate investment is conditional on the acquisition of immovable property, located in an urban area, in an amount equal to or greater than R$ 1,000,000.00 (one million reais)
Urban only. Rural land does not qualify.
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Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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«O valor mínimo do investimento poderá ser inferior até 30% do total disposto no caput deste artigo, quando se tratar de aquisição de imóveis nas regiões Norte e Nordeste do País.»Our translation - not official
The minimum value of the investment may be up to 30% lower than the total set out in the caput of this article, where the acquisition concerns property in the North and Northeast regions of the country.
The resolution states a percentage and never the resulting amount, which is why the reduced figure on this page is marked as our arithmetic.
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Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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«O prazo da residência prevista no caput será de 04 (quatro) anos.»Our translation - not official
The period of the residence provided for in the caput shall be 04 (four) years.
About this source
Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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«O investidor imobiliário deverá permanecer no território nacional por, no mínimo, 14 (quatorze) dias, seguidos ou interpolados, a cada período de dois anos, contados a partir do registro junto à Polícia Federal.»Our translation - not official
The real-estate investor must remain in the national territory for at least 14 (fourteen) days, consecutive or interspersed, in each two-year period, counted from registration with the Federal Police.
This is a presence quota, not a rule about continuous absence, and the two are not the same test. Meeting it disapplies the general ground of loss for being out of the country more than two years.
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Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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«A posse ou a propriedade de bem no Brasil não confere o direito de obter visto ou autorização de residência em território nacional, sem prejuízo do disposto sobre visto para realização de investimento.»Our translation - not official
Possession or ownership of property in Brazil does not confer the right to obtain a visa or residence authorisation in the national territory, without prejudice to the provisions on the visa for making an investment.
The property-investment resolution cites this very article as its basis. The statute denies that owning property gives residency and then leaves a door open through the investment visa, and the resolution walks through that door.
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Practical notes
Neither figure is indexed. R$ 500,000 and R$ 1,000,000 have stood unchanged since 2017 and 2018 respectively, and the real has moved a long way in that time.
Co-ownership of property is allowed, but each co-owner must have invested the full amount in their own right.
The part of a property's price above R$ 1,000,000 may be financed; the qualifying amount itself may not.
- administersResolução Normativa nº 13, de 12 de dezembro de 2017
Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública
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Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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- administersResolução Normativa nº 36, de 9 de outubro de 2018
Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública
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Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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- consolidatesLei nº 13.445, de 24 de maio de 2017 - Lei de Migração
Presidência da República - Portal da Legislação (Planalto)
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- consolidatesDecreto nº 9.199, de 20 de novembro de 2017
Presidência da República - Portal da Legislação (Planalto)
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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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- administersMinistério da Justiça e Segurança Pública - Resoluções Normativas de imigração
Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública
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Grants residence authorisations, runs the application system, and hosts the immigration council's index of resolutions.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the content of a resolution - its service pages paraphrase, and several still describe the allocation of competence as it stood before the 2025 decree moved it. Cannot be cited for who the Mercosur agreement covers: its page names no countries at all.
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