The firm
A São Paulo practice built around one difficult question
Lu Gold EDC Brazil Ltda is a global mobility and education consultancy. Our Brazilian practice exists because the hard part of a Brazil investor visa is almost never the threshold. It is proving where the capital came from, moving it lawfully, and holding a multi-party file together long enough for CNIg criteria to be met on the first submission.
São Paulo, Lagos, Accra
The head office is in Morumbi, São Paulo, because that is where the counsel, the cartórios, the banks and the federal police interactions are. Our Lagos and Accra operations exist for the opposite reason: the documentation that determines whether an application succeeds is assembled in the client’s own country, under that country’s exchange-control regime, months before anything reaches Brazil. Brazil residency for Nigerians and the Brazil investor visa from Ghana both live or die on that West African end of the file, so we staff it rather than outsource it.
Registered entity
Lu Gold EDC Brazil Ltda
Rua Dr. Luiz Migliano, 1986, Morumbi, São Paulo, SP 05711-001
CNPJ 66.385.563/0001-53
+55 11 97479-6689
The Caribbean practice, and why it matters here
We also run a Caribbean citizenship-by-investment practice. That is unusual for a firm advocating a Brazilian route, and it is deliberate. Having filed Caribbean applications through successive due-diligence tightenings and the 2023–2024 visa-access renegotiations, we can tell an investor plainly when a passport in six months is the correct answer and Brazil is not. It also means our source-of-funds discipline was formed under the most demanding due-diligence regime in the industry, and we apply the same standard to Brazilian files, which are examined less aggressively but reversed more painfully.
The partner network model
We do not perform regulated functions. We assemble and run the file, and we engage, brief and hold to schedule the licensed professionals who do.
OAB-registered counsel
Immigration and corporate lawyers admitted to the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil sign and file the petition, advise on legal risk and represent the client before the Ministério da Justiça. The engagement is between the client and counsel; we coordinate it and hold the schedule.
CRECI-registered brokers
On the real estate route, property search, negotiation and the escritura process run through brokers licensed by the regional CRECI. We instruct on qualifying criteria — urban, registered, unencumbered, correctly valued on the matrícula — and review the file, but the brokerage function is theirs.
Authorised FX institutions
Every real transferred into Brazil for an investor petition must arrive through a contrato de câmbio with an institution authorised by the Banco Central, registered against the investment. We prepare the documentary chain; the institution executes and registers it.
Registered contadores
Company formation, the RDE-IED registration, pro-labore treatment and the first years of Brazilian filing obligations sit with accountants registered at the CRC. On the business, technology and director routes their work begins before the petition, not after.
Our AML position, stated plainly
Lu Gold EDC Brazil Ltda is an obligated entity under Lei 9.613/98 and operates a documented client due diligence and source-of-funds programme. We identify and verify every client and beneficial owner, we require evidence of the full chain from income to transfer rather than a closing balance, we screen against sanctions and politically-exposed-person criteria, we keep records for the statutory period, and we report where the law requires it. We decline engagements we cannot evidence, and we have done so.
Most firms in this market do not put that in writing. Saying it attracts the client whose file will withstand examination and deters the one whose file will not, which is the outcome we want on both sides.