Investing Your Way into Venezuela
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 Venezuela · Residency through investment
The investor visa, TR-I, is unusual in two ways. It states no amount at all: what it asks is that the investment has been accepted by the Venezuelan official bodies, and the foreign ministry turns that into a single document, an investor certificate issued through the foreign trade single window. And it is the most generous of the transient visas on time - three years, multiple entries, no limit on how long you may stay - then up to two more years applied for inside the country, and only then may you ask for Resident status. There is a second business category, the entrepreneur/industrialist visa, which looks similar and is not on the list of visas that lead to residence.
At a glance
- Minimum investment
- None stated
Article 11 of Resolución Conjunta N° 364, quoted here, asks for a reliable document showing that the investment has been accepted by the Venezuelan authorities. Neither it nor article 12, which sets the visa's duration, names a sum.
- Visa validity
- Three years, multiple entries, no limit on length of stay
- Extension inside the country
- Up to two further years
- Then
- May apply for Resident status
- Entrepreneur/industrialist visa
- Two years, multiple entries, four months per entry, no extension
- Does the entrepreneur visa lead to residence
- No
Requirements
- Evidence that contacts have been established and that the investment has been accepted by the relevant Venezuelan official bodies
- An investor certificate obtained through the foreign trade single window
- A passport valid for at least six months, two passport photographs, a medical certificate from the health authority of your country and the consular fee
Country-level policy
The joint resolution that defines every class of Venezuelan visa was made in December 1999 by three ministries, and it says on its face which law it was made under: the Ley de Extranjeros and the Regulation of the Ley de Extranjeros. The Ley de Extranjería y Migración of 2004 repealed the Ley de Extranjeros by name, and required the President to make a regulation of the new Act within sixty days of publication. The foreign ministry and the consulates still publish the 1999 catalogue of visas, visa by visa, with the same codes and in most places the same wording. We did not find a regulation made under the 2004 Act. That matters to a reader because it is why the two sets of rules do not line up: the 1999 text names ministries that no longer exist, lets a business visitor stay 180 days where the Act caps a non-migrant at 90 plus 90, and routes the investor through an authority that has been replaced.
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
«Artículo 11º- Transeúnte Inversionista (TR-I) Se otorgará a personas o representantes de empresas, que muestren a través de documento fehaciente, que se han establecido los contactos y que la inversión ha sido aceptada por los organismos oficiales venezolanos correspondientes.»Our translation - not official
Transient Investor (TR-I): granted to individuals or company representatives who show by reliable document that contacts have been established and that the investment has been accepted by the relevant Venezuelan official bodies.
No sum of money appears anywhere in this article or in the one that sets its duration.
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A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Artículo 12º- El Visado de Transeúnte Inversionista se otorgará con una vigencia de tres (3) años, múltiples entradas, sin límite de permanencia. Vencido dicho plazo el interesado podrá solicitar en el país prórroga hasta dos (2) años y una vez vencido este último podrá solicitar la condición de Residente, previo cumplimiento de los requisitos que establezca el Ministerio del Interior y Justicia.»Our translation - not official
The Transient Investor visa is granted with a validity of three (3) years, multiple entries, with no limit on the length of stay. Once that period has run the person concerned may apply inside the country for an extension of up to two (2) years, and once that has run may apply for Resident status, subject to the requirements laid down by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice.
About this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Artículo 13º- Transeúnte Empresario/Industrial (TR-E/I) Se otorgará a persona que demuestren poseer empresas o industrias, radicadas en el lugar de su domicilio o que tengan filiales en Venezuela y que viajen a ésta en actividades relacionadas con las mismas.»Our translation - not official
Transient Entrepreneur/Industrialist (TR-E/I): granted to a person who shows that they own companies or industries established at their place of domicile or having subsidiaries in Venezuela, and who travel there on business connected with them.
About this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Artículo 15º- El Visado de Transeúnte Empresario/Industrial se otorgará con una vigencia de dos (2) años, múltiples entradas, y permitirá una permanencia de hasta cuatro (4) meses, improrrogables por cada ingreso. UNICO: Se exceptúan los nacionales de aquellos países con los cuales Venezuela haya suscrito Acuerdos.»Our translation - not official
The Transient Entrepreneur/Industrialist visa is granted with a validity of two (2) years, multiple entries, and allows a stay of up to four (4) months, not extendable, per entry. SOLE PARAGRAPH: nationals of countries with which Venezuela has signed Agreements are excepted.
The sole paragraph is the only place in the whole resolution where an agreement with another country changes a visa's terms, and it names no country.
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A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Artículo 40°- El extranjero que hubiere permanecido un mínimo de un año ininterrumpido en el territorio de la República con Visa de Transeúnte Inversionista (TR-I); Transeúnte Familiar Venezolano (TR-FV); Transeúnte Rentista (TR-RE); Transeúnte Empleado Doméstico (TR-ED); Transeúnte Religioso (TR-REL) o Transeúnte Laboral (TR-L) y correspondiente visado familiar, el Ministerio del Interior y Justicia, le podrá otorgar, si lo solicitare, la condición de Residente, que será renovada cada cinco (5) años.»Our translation - not official
A foreigner who has stayed a minimum of one uninterrupted year in the territory of the Republic on a Transient Investor (TR-I), Venezuelan Family Member (TR-FV), Transient Person of Independent Means (TR-RE), Transient Domestic Employee (TR-ED), Transient Religious (TR-REL) or Transient Labour (TR-L) visa and the corresponding family visa may, on application, be granted Resident status by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, renewable every five (5) years.
This is the whole of the list. The business visa and the entrepreneur/industrialist visa are not on it, so neither of those two leads to residence by this route.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Certificado de Inversionista, tramitado a través de la Ventanilla Única de Comercio Exterior»Our translation - not official
Investor Certificate, obtained through the Foreign Trade Single Window
The resolution asks only for a reliable document showing the investment was accepted. The ministry names one specific document and one specific channel.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
«El visado de transeúnte inversionista se otorgará con una vigencia de tres (3) años, múltiples entradas, sin límite de permanencia en el país.»Our translation - not official
The transient investor visa is granted with a validity of three (3) years, multiple entries, with no limit on the length of stay in the country.
The ministry's page stops here. It does not mention the two-year extension or the route to Resident status that the resolution sets out in the same article.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
Practical notes
That the entrepreneur/industrialist visa does not lead to residence is read off the closed list in the resolution's article 40, which names six visas and not that one.
- reportsNormas del Procedimiento para la Expedición de Visado, Resolución Conjunta N° 364 / 165 / 0530, Gaceta Oficial N° 5.427 Extraordinario de 5 de enero de 2000
Justia Venezuela
About this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
- administersVisa de Transeúnte Inversionista (TR-I)
Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores
About this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- administersVisa de Transeúnte Empresario/Industrial
Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores
About this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source