CONSULATE GENERAL OF BRAZIL IN ATLANTA

3500 Lenox Road, Suite 800, One Alliance Center, Atlanta, GA, 30326

Phone: (404) 949-2400 - Fax: (404) 949-2402

Inquiries: procura@atlantaconsulatebrazil.org

 Appointments only: agendamento@atlantaconsulatebrazil.org

Open to the public from 9 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm, Monday thru Friday.

Closed on American holidays and on September 7th (Brazil Independence Day)

Jurisdiction: states of Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi e Tennessee. 

INFORMATION ON POWER OF ATTORNEY

Brazilian nationals or foreigners bearing a valid “RNE” (“Registro Nacional de Estrangeiros”) card can request that the Brazilian Consulate draw a public power of attorney for them. See “Procurações” (page in Portuguese).

However, for foreigners who do not have a valid “RNE”, even if they have a “CPF (“Cadastro Nacional de Pessoa Física – CPF”) number, the Consulate cannot draw public powers of attorney. In order to be valid in Brazil, powers of attorney must follow the procedures below:

• they must be drawn according to the law of the place where the instrument is prepared;

• the grantor's signature on the instrument must be authenticated by a notary public;

• the notary public's signature must then be authenticated by a County clerk; and

• the County clerk's signature must then be legalized by the Consulate (See Legalization of Documents);

• if they are not written in Portuguese, the power of attorney must be translated in Brazil by a sworn translator (“tradutor juramentado”) and registered with a “Cartório de Registro de Títulos e Documentos” (a public office that files private documents in order to grant them the publicity required by law).