Work in Brazil (part 1) Hello! If somebody has already read my “first note” knows that I live and work in Brazil. I’d like to start a daily series of notes telling about the peculiarities of working in Brazil for foreign people, their labor code, work policy and the local job market. The first step, of course, is a visa. You can legally work in Brazil if you have: 1) a work visa, what means that some company needs to invite you to work in Brazil and pay a special tax for the Brazilian Government. 2) a residence permit (what happened in my case because my husband is Brazilian) 3) extra USD 15.000,00 (I could have a wrong number) and invest this money in some local business creating new jobs in Brazil You can’t work in Brazil if you only have a student visa. In my case I have a residence permit, but it’s not as easy as you think. It took me more than 2 years to be allowed to work legally. That time I had been working with different freelance projects and it wasn’t too difficult to find them. I taught Russian and made a lot of translation jobs. I was really surprised about how many Brazilians want to learn Russian. It’s easy to find a job as a foreign language teacher and if you give many classes you can definitely survive here! I also finished my second university here and took some extra courses. But then my work permit got ready and my “work journey” here started. P.S.: please, feel free to ask any question you want about the job process in Brazil and I’ll try to answer you in my next posts.