🇧🇷 Brazil

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Brazil does not grant EU-directive temporary protection. It runs its own scheme: acolhida humanitária (humanitarian reception) under its migration law. The act in force is Portaria Interministerial MJSP/MRE No. 60 of 30.12.2025, effective 01.01.2026. It revoked the "Ukrainian" Portaria No. 50/2024 (art. 13). There is no automatic renewal: you must file the request with the Polícia Federal yourself. WHAT TO DO. If you were in Brazil as of 31.12.2025, art. 7 expressly lets you apply at a Polícia Federal unit for a residence permit for humanitarian reception — REGARDLESS of your current migration status: whether your permit has already expired, whether your CRNM is still valid, or whether you have no documents at all. The new residence runs for 2 years (§ 1). Art. 7 sets no filing deadline, but do not delay. HOW. Fill in the electronic form on the Polícia Federal site (gov.br/pf, "Carta de Serviços" → "Migração" → "Obter Autorização de Residência"), book an appointment, and attend in person at the PF unit for your place of domicile: registration is done by biographic and biometric data, with you present (§ 4). The request may be filed by you, your legal representative, or an attorney-in-fact; for a child or a person of limited capacity, by either parent or the legal representative (§§ 2–3). No fees, charges or fines are payable for registration and the residence permit (art. 10): the standard PF fees (R$ 168.13 and R$ 204.77) do not apply to you, and the exemption also covers relatives called for family reunion. The right to work is guaranteed (art. 9). WHAT NOT TO DO. Do not leave Brazil for good and do not cross the border outside official migration control: in that case the basis for humanitarian reception is deemed to have ceased (art. 11). ON INDEFINITE RESIDENCE — BE CAREFUL. Art. 6 allows you, in the last 90 days before the two-year term ends, to request that the permit be changed to indefinite validity (conditions: no absence from Brazil over 90 days per migration year; entry and exit only through Brazilian migration control; no criminal record in Brazil; proof of means of subsistence). But in the text art. 6 is tied to the two-year term under art. 5 § 1 — that is, to people who entered on a humanitarian visa. The Portaria does not say it extends to residence granted under art. 7 or to a CRNM issued under the revoked Portaria No. 50/2024. So do not count on this step in advance — ask the Polícia Federal directly. Source: bibliotecadigital.mj.gov.br/bitstream/1/16477/1/PRI_MJSP_MRE_2025_60.html Source: https://bibliotecadigital.mj.gov.br/bitstream/1/16477/1/PRI_MJSP_MRE_2025_60.html (checked 03.09.2026).