Police Clearance Certificates and Apostilles in Brazil: what actually matters to know
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You can use remote services for document retrieval, legalization, and apostille of civil or educational records from Russia and CIS countries. Before moving to Brazil, ensure you apostille original documents in their country of origin, but wait to have them translated by a local sworn public translator upon arrival.
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Do not translate legal or civil documents before arriving in Brazil.
All foreign documents must be translated locally in Brazil by a sworn public translator (tradutor juramentado). However, original certificates (birth, marriage, diplomas) must be apostilled in their country of origin. Note that police clearance certificates typically carry a strict 3-month validity window for immigration processes.
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