Ordinary Naturalization and Getting Passport

12/03/25 Hello friends. I want to ask about the naturalization process. After the Federal Police and MJSP steps are checked and the name is published on the site, what are the other steps until getting a passport? - @alirkhorshid

After the name is published, the new citizen should take a copy of the DOU page showing the publication to the local Justiça Eleitoral, to register as a voter and request a Título de Eleitor.  The person at the Justiça Eleitoral will suggest other places to go:  the new citizen should go to them in the order suggested.  Males below a certain age will have to be excused from military service as part of this process, but this is just a formality.

One place that the Justiça Eleitoral may not suggest but the new citizen should go to very soon after being approved is the Receita Federal.  Many other agencies at the local, state, and federal levels rely on the Receita Federal's database, and it's important for the person's CPF record to be updated to show the new citizenship status.

One of those places will be the local municipal office, to obtain the Carteira de Identidade Nacional (CIN), the citizen's national ID card.  The application will be checked electronically against the CPF record, so fixing this at the Receita Federal beforehand may be necessary.

After the new citizen has his/her CIN and Título de Eleitor, s/he can apply for a Brazilian Passport at the Polícia Federal.

A new citizen can obtain a Certidão Positiva de Naturalização here:  https://www.gov.br/pt-br/servicos/obter … uralizacao

This is a good document to have on file, but should not be needed to complete the processes described above.

@alirkhorshid

If by “the site” you mean your citizenship is published in the Diário Oficial da União, you should then apply for your Carteira de Identidade Nacional (CIN). Then get your Título de Eleitor.  After you receive those, apply for your passport. Regarding the Receita Federal suggestion above, while this might be a good idea, I did not do this when I became a citizen and had no difficulty obtaining a CIN (except a long wait in Bahia because the entire world here is applying for the relatively new CIN) or passport. For me obtaining a passport  was among the  quickest and least painful of the many processes involved in citizenship.

By the way, here in Salvador the Justiça Eleitoral office offered no suggestions about other steps I should take. In fact, the first person I dealt with was unsure of how to process a new citizen so a supervisor became involved.

I remember reading Brazil sometime declared you can be a citizen if you been here for a certain time period. I know this is not common just does this really happen. What year did this occur if it happened.

@NewBrazil Once you've lived here as a permanent resident for 15 years obtaining citizenship is much easier through what is known as "extraordinary naturalization." Unless you have a criminal record, there's not much standing in the way at this point.  No language tests, no need to prove family ties, marriage etc. Just proof that you've spent 15 years here and a few other odds and ends.