There are many different types of work permits. 

To apply for a VITEM V (Work Visa), it requires to start the process in Brazil by the company or institution willing to hire you or the applicant. It must file a petition for temporary residency authorization at the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. Only after the authorization is granted, the applicant will be able to apply for a Work Visa at the Consulate in their jurisdiction or if it is in Brazil, they must register the new status at the Federal Police. 

The only exception that does not require to start the process in Brazil is for media correspondents, journalists, photojournalists, photographers, members of press, radio or television organizations.

The VITEM V (Work Visa) may be extended to the family members as a family reunion visa.
Types of work permit:

⦁ Professionals who are going to work in Brazil with an employment contract with a Brazilian company/organization. 

⦁ Professionals whose employer (non-Brazilian company) has a contract, cooperation agreement or partnership with a Brazilian company (without an employment contract in Brazil) and are being requested to technical assistance or technology transfer.

⦁ Professionals providing services aboard a sea cruising vessel along the Brazilian coast (without an employment contract in Brazil) for a period greater than 90 days.

⦁ Professionals providing services aboard a sea cruising vessel or foreign flag platform along the Brazilian jurisdictional waters (without an employment contract in Brazil) for a period greater than 90 days.

⦁ Professionals providing services or technical assistance (without an employment contract in Brazil) to the Brazilian government.

⦁ Professionals providing services required under the terms of a technical cooperation international agreement (without an employment contract in Brazil).

⦁ Professionals providing services to represent a financial institution or similar entity headquartered abroad (without an employment contract in Brazil).

⦁ Professionals providing services to represent a nonprofit private legal entity (without an employment contract in Brazil).

⦁ Professionals providing services to occupy a position, a function or to perform an assignment, for an indeterminate period, due to a specific requirement to maintain residence in Brazil (without an employment contract in Brazil).

⦁ Professionals providing services of media correspondents, journalists, photojournalists, photographers, members of press, radio or television organizations in Brazil for a period greater than 90 days.

⦁ Professionals contracted by a company from a transnational group, whose headquarter is a Brazilian company, to provide technical-operational or administrative services (without an employment contract) with the aim of enabling and learning the business methodology and culture, contributing towards the management of the Brazilian headquarters, as well as to allow the exchange and sharing of experiences inherent to the functions of the employees.

⦁ Professionals who are going to Brazil to receive professional training at a Brazilian branch, subsidiary or headquarter within the same economic group abroad (without an employment contract in Brazil).

⦁ Professional athletes contracted by a professional sports club or similar organization in Brazil under the terms of an employment contract.

⦁ Professionals providing services aboard a foreign fishing vessel along the Brazilian jurisdictional waters (without an employment contract in Brazil), as required by a leasing contract signed with a legal entity in Brazil, for a period greater than 90 days.

⦁ Undergraduate/graduate student or graduated less than 1 year ago participating in a professional exchange program for a Brazilian company, with the aim of improving academic training, acquiring knowledge through practical work, and having a cultural experience within a work environment.