Residency application experience with PF in Bahia?

Wow that’s incredible. How long ago was that? I always thought smaller cities would be worse but that sounds quite good. We’d be sort of in between a bunch of cities Feira de Santana, Itabuna etc and I assumed Salvador would be easier…

- @rnbtg

@rnbtg Please get it from anywhere but SP. In my case its almost  3 months after submission, am told am missing comprovante de endereco in my docs which was duly submitted. As said already it all depends on the person on the day and the mood who is attending you.

Follow up questions. My fiancé and I are married next week finally! I had a crazy series of visits to the PF because I’ll have overstayed my visa by 1 week (initially told I could extend then denied but no real issues). We’re planning to move to bahia in hopefully 1-2 weeks but might take longer. I want to apply for residency in bahia but fear the longer I wait the more fines etc. my wife owns a place in bahia we may stay in temporarily that we may use as our permanent address while we house hunt and stay temporarily other places.

So my question is how does the online system work? Can I request an appointment in bahia next week after marrying or are there some further requirements that would block that? We’re having some trouble finding a place from afar that can accommodate our cat, safely store our pickup etc (any advice welcome there too!). Thanks!

Update, we successfully got married at the cartório which was great. I was able to apply for residency in the system. São Paulo is booked 2 months out. I was able to book in Bahia, but our town put us at the Salvador airport. It had some drop down to select place but that would disappear immediately after confirming their warning. Bahia had appts within the next week, but we won't have moved there yet so put it further out. Fingers crossed!

congratulations .....

Update: we moved to bahia. Our region is served by the airport in Salvador. Made an appointment for really any day we wanted. We arrived early and we’re seen immediately. I brought our certidão do casamento, my apostiled and translated fbi report (97days old), her RG, the various sworn oath forms, and my passport. The agent asked my wife questions for a little bit, took my photos and prints and gave us our RNM documentation. Insanely efficient and easy. They say the card will be ready for pickup there in the airport. We were married and I applied for residency one week after my visa expired. I assumed this was the date for overstaying the visa. In fact it was the day of the residency interview 37 days after. I was fined 180ish rs. All in all I’m very grateful to you all and Brazil. Thanks!

Hey thanks for all the helpful information . I was told to return to the PF in Goiânia in 45 days to pick up my permanent Visa. Does anyone know if they count weekends as part of 45 days ? Thanks

11/16/22 Hey thanks for all the helpful information . I was told to return to the PF in Goiânia in 45 days to pick up my permanent Visa. Does anyone know if they count weekends as part of 45 days ? Thanks
-@kmitch0077

They usually mean "dias úteis", business days, M-F, holidays excepted.  You can always check earlier, though.  Probably not less than a month.

@abthree thanks a lot that will save me some time and money.

Is there a way to check outside of going there? I was told not to call but just show up. It's a 3+hr drive for me. Thanks!

My question was answered. I just got an email from Sismigra that my document is ready for pickup. That is in a mere 3 weeks. Incredible