Every Brazilian process — buying, marrying, incorporating, inheriting — sits on a foundation of documents: CPF, apostilles, sworn translations, certificates. Get the foundation wrong and everything above it stalls.
The CPF — Brazil's individual taxpayer number — is the key that opens everything: property purchases, bank accounts, phone plans, utility contracts, even some online purchases. Foreigners can obtain one without residence, and non-residents routinely need one before any transaction. It's also where errors are cheapest to make and most expensive to discover, because a CPF registered with a mistranscribed name will quietly poison every registry entry built on it later.
Above the CPF sits the legalization layer. Brazil joined the Hague Apostille Convention in 2016, which simplified things — foreign public documents need an apostille from the issuing country, then a sworn translation (tradução juramentada) by a Brazil-certified translator. Not a notarized translation, not a certified translation from your country: a Brazilian sworn translator. Using the wrong kind is the single most common reason files bounce.
We run this layer as a service: obtaining CPFs (including by power of attorney for non-residents), coordinating apostilles in your country, commissioning sworn translations, pulling Brazilian certificates (birth, marriage, property, corporate, criminal) from the registries that hold them, and fixing the name-divergence problems that international lives accumulate — the maiden name on one document, the missing middle name on another — through administrative or judicial rectification.
Every price is itemized like an honest receipt — our flat fee, plus each government, registry and translation charge, estimated high so the number only ever moves down. Add a package to your cart and pay online, or request a quote for anything bespoke. Only value-based taxes are billed at cost; the final fee is confirmed in your engagement letter.
Obtained in person or by power of attorney, registered exactly as your passport shows — the costly part to get wrong.
Apostille coordination, sworn translation, and registry verification before anything is submitted.
Brazil-certified tradução juramentada, commissioned and quality-checked for registry acceptance.
Fixing divergent names and registry errors that block transactions. Quoted after we see the records.
All-in estimates for English-speaking service to foreigners, with every fee we can foresee rounded up. Two cases with the same label can differ in scope — your engagement letter sets the final, written fee, and lines marked “at cost” (value-based taxes like ITBI and ITCMD) are passed through with receipts. Contested or litigated matters are quoted individually, never sold off a price list.
Against your goal (purchase, marriage, visa…), exactly which documents you need, in which form, from which country.
Apostilles run in your country, certificates pulled in Brazil, translations commissioned — in parallel.
Every document checked against the receiving registry's requirements before it's submitted anywhere.
The complete, accepted package — used in your transaction or handed to you for whatever comes next.
Add a package above to start online, or describe your situation and a lawyer replies within one business day — no obligation, no hourly meter.