Decree 528 declared entry generally open to people considered able to work, but excepted Indigenous people from Asia and Africa, who could enter only with authorization from Congress under...
Decree-Law 406 reorganized rules for foreign entry and residence, including the operation of national immigration quotas and requirements for visas. It extended a restrictive framework that had been...
Decree-Law 7,967 established immigration rules and stated that policy should preserve and develop in Brazil’s ethnic composition the “most convenient” characteristics of European ancestry. Its...