You will never get an hourly invoice from us, and you will never learn the price of something after it's done. Here is exactly how our pricing works — and why we don't print a rate card.
Every engagement starts with a one-page letter that states a single flat fee for the defined scope of work. Government charges — visa fees, notary charges, registration taxes, sworn translation costs — are listed separately and billed at cost, with receipts. The flat fee covers all of our legal work for that scope: the calls, the drafting, the filings, the follow-ups, and every status update along the way.
If the scope changes — a seller turns out to have a pending lawsuit, a consulate adds a requirement — we tell you what changed, what it adds, and the work continues only after you approve the revised scope in writing. The fee never moves retroactively, and it never moves because something simply took longer than expected. Slow government offices are our cost, not yours.
Two honest reasons.
First, the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) restricts how lawyers may advertise fees. Brazilian attorneys are subject to advertising rules that don't permit publishing fee schedules as marketing. Firms that show you prices on a website are either not run by licensed Brazilian lawyers — worth checking before you wire money to anyone — or are taking a risk with their own bar licenses. We comply with the rules of the profession that makes our work possible.
Second, honest quotes need facts. Two "retirement visa" cases can be hours of work apart depending on your nationality, where your documents were issued, and how your income is structured. A price printed before those facts exist is either padded to cover the worst case or a teaser that grows later. Both are worse than a real number 24 hours after you describe your situation.
So you can calibrate expectations before you write to us, these are the main cost drivers in foreign-client work: which legal route fits your case (some visas are consular, some are filed inside Brazil); how many government registries are involved (a property purchase touches several); whether documents need apostilles and sworn translation, and how many; whether anything is contested (an amicable divorce and a litigated one are different animals); and whether you'll be present in Brazil or acting through power of attorney.
Describe your situation today; have a written flat-fee quote in your inbox within 24 hours of the facts being clear.
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