Brazil Oil and Gas Visa Specialists

Coordinate immigration with the staffing and deployment needs of your energy project. Oliveira Lawyers assists oil and gas businesses and foreign professionals with assessing assignments and preparing visa or residence applications, with attention to onshore work, offshore deployments, and rotation schedules. Our bilingual full-service firm is led by Luciano Oliveira, an attorney licensed in Brazil, Texas, and California.

Our selective approach. We focus on full representation for clients who value their time, want candid advice, and prefer an established international law firm to manage the legal work. Learn more about our firm and approach.

Why Energy Businesses and Foreign Professionals Trust Oliveira Lawyers

• Judgment and experience that matter. We review duties, work locations, employer arrangements, and rotations. Vessel or platform assignments and changes in the deployment plan receive individual attention before travel is finalized.
• An attorney responsible for your case, with progress you can follow. Our attorneys and team coordinate company and worker records, applications, and authority responses. Your online board shows documents and the next steps.
• Staffed offices in Brazil, with support abroad. Our Brazilian offices provide local support, while our U.S. offices coordinate documents such as background checks, certificates, and apostilles.
• Support at your Federal Police appointment. Where registration is required, we coordinate documents and appointments with the professional’s time ashore. Professional accompaniment is available in all major Brazilian cities.
• A relationship that makes the next step easier. Changing crews, extending assignments, or revising service contracts can create further legal needs. Our firm can coordinate related support through separately agreed engagements.

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Start with an online consultation to discuss the project, duties, work location or vessel, employer arrangements, and deployment schedule.

Content reviewed October 13, 2026.

Choose the route by duties, location and vessel status

Oil and gas is an industry, not one visa category. Onshore engineering, technical assistance and work aboard a vessel or platform can follow different rules. A Brazilian employment contract is not required for every offshore professional.

Information needed before mobilization

• The worker’s nationality, qualifications and current immigration status.
• The employer, payroll location, contracting parties and scope of services.
• Whether the work is onshore, aboard a vessel or on a platform.
• The vessel or platform’s flag, activity and operating arrangements.
• The rotation schedule, total assignment period and proposed entry dates.

Decree 9,199/2017 distinguishes employment from non-employment work arrangements, including technical services and specified maritime activities. Crew status, a seafarer’s document or a short rotation should not be treated as a universal exemption.

Plan the authorization before setting a start date

The company and worker should identify the applicable resolution and assemble the corresponding technical and corporate evidence. Relevant work-residence requests go through CGIL/MJSP and MigranteWeb; consular issuance and Federal Police registration are separate stages where required.

Government processing, consular scheduling and document preparation can vary. We do not treat a general two-to-six-month estimate as a guaranteed mobilization timetable. Confirm permission before the worker begins the authorized activity.

Manage rotations and changes

Keep residence validity, entry permission and the rotation calendar under review. Extensions require the appropriate application and evidence; a renewed commercial contract alone does not renew immigration permission.

If the assignment ends or the employer changes, assess notification, cancellation or a new residence basis promptly. Contract termination should not be described as immediate automatic cancellation of every residence grant.

Family and related legal work

Accompanying relatives must qualify under the applicable family-reunion rules. Eligibility is not limited to a blanket “children under 18” statement. Review each dependent’s relationship, age and circumstances.

Our team can coordinate the immigration work with employment and service-contract questions. Compare technical assistance and local employment where those arrangements better describe the work.