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This route is specifically for people drawing a pension — a retirement pension of their own, or a survivor's pension. Savings, investment income or simply having stopped working do not qualify, however comfortable the position, because what the rule asks for is a pension being paid and transferred.
So this door is shut, but it is the narrowest of Brazil's residence routes and the others do not care whether you are retired.
Living on investments or savings points at the investment route: R$500,000 into a Brazilian company, R$150,000 if the business is in innovation or research, or R$1,000,000 in property — R$700,000 in the North and Northeast. Since 2024 the company route grants residence for an indeterminate period from the start.
Any remote work for foreign clients points at the digital nomad route instead, at US$1,500 a month or US$18,000 in savings — a much lower bar than the investment routes.
Nationals of most South American countries have a treaty route needing neither money nor a job offer.
And Brazilian ancestry, if there is any in the family, beats all of them: citizenship by descent has no generational limit and no financial test.
Tell us what you live on and what nationality you hold, and we will point you at the one that fits.