My friend wants to get Brazilian citizenship.
Is leaving the country to get another visa considered "relevant " or does it disturb a year of residence?
This is pure assumption, but if Brazilian legislation on naturalization is any bit like that in other countries, uninterrupted residency would mean 'uninterruptedly having a legal status as well as an actual address'. So, my guess is that your friend needs a long-stay residence permit, on which he would need to live in Brazil for at least one year prior to being eligible for naturalization. A vacation would not necessarily be prohibited, but the bottom line is that residence should not be interrupted for lack of a valid title of stay.
Another thing: I seem to recall from the other thread that your friend is currently residing in Brazil on a visa in his US passport. In order to be eligible for the one-year-residency-clause for nationals from Portuguese-speaking countries, I would guess he would need to reside in Brazil using his other passport.
This is all assumption, though. Your friend should turn to the Brazilian authorities for matters this serious. Also, he would need to consider what taking on Brazilian nationality means for his current US nationality, which he will most probably be forced to give up. What I do know for certain is that a constitution is not a very reliable document to quote as your source, seen that the devil is in the detailed implementation/interpretation. The Brazilian department of Justice maintains a fairly good website with a lot of on-topic information: .
[ 22-Jul-2010, at 16:15 by bentivogli ]
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