⚠️ Important notice
This is not a government website. Certificado Digital Global is a Registration Authority accredited to the Certisign network, a brand of Kindness in Business Consulting Ltd (UK Company No. 10386293), serving clients from London. Issuance depends on identity validation, documentation and ICP-Brasil rules. Do not send CPF, passport or sensitive documents via WhatsApp or the initial form.
O que é
Anyone living in Barcelona, Buenos Aires or Milan learns to call an electronic signature a “firma digital” — and, when looking for the Brazilian version, stumbles over terms that sound identical but point to incompati…
Para quem
Serving Brazilians in Spain, Italy and Latin America · Video validation in the language you're comfortable with
Como resolve
Certificate issued by Certisign CA · No consulate, no travel
Limite
Não é site do governo. Emissão sujeita a validação de identidade, documentação e normas da ICP-Brasil.
Dictionary of equivalents
The Brazilian firma digital is a signature made with an ICP-Brasil certificate — the e-CPF for individuals and the e-CNPJ for companies. The table shows how everyday terms in Spain, Italy and Argentina map onto the Brazilian ones.
Firma digital / firma electrónica cualificada
Spain, Argentina, other Spanish-speaking countries · ICP-Brasil qualified digital signature · No — separate systems
Certificado digital (FNMT, AFIP, etc.)
Spain, Argentina · e-CPF / e-CNPJ digital certificate · No
DNI electrónico
Spain · No exact equivalent; the e-CPF serves as the digital identity · No
SPID / CIE / firma digitale
Italy · gov.br (SPID/CIE) and ICP-Brasil certificate (firma digitale) · No
Firma electrónica simple / avanzada
Spain, Argentina · Simple / advanced electronic signature (Law 14.063) · Not as qualified
Brazilian firma digital (e-CPF)
Brazil · — · Yes, from any country
Why your country's signature doesn't work in Brazil
Every public-key infrastructure trusts only the certificate authorities in its own chain. In Europe, the eIDAS regulation makes member states recognise one another's qualified signatures; in Argentina, Law 25.506 structures the local firma digital. None of those systems is linked to ITI's Root CA, and Brazilian legislation grants the presumption of authenticity only to signatures made within ICP-Brasil. A PDF signed with an FNMT certificate or through SPID shows up on the Brazilian validator as a signature of unknown origin — technically intact, legally without the effect you need.
Different chain
ITI → Certisign CA → Registration Authority → you. No European or Latin American authority is part of that line.
Different law
MP 2.200-2 and Law 14.063 speak of ICP-Brasil; eIDAS and Law 25.506 are not mentioned by them.
No conversion
There is no service that “translates” a foreign signature into a Brazilian one. The only route is issuing an ICP-Brasil certificate.
The reverse holds too
The e-CPF doesn't replace the DNI electrónico or SPID for services in the country where you live. Each digital identity serves its own system.
Scenario: the dentist in Barcelona
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Real case
Illustrative scenario. A Brazilian dentist established in Barcelona holds an FNMT certificate and a DNI electrónico — she signs everything the Generalitat and the Agencia Tributaria ask for with them. In Fortaleza, the family clinic is amending its articles of association and she, as a partner, must sign the instrument for filing at the commercial registry. She tries with the Spanish certificate; the accountant sends the file back: the registry doesn't recognise the signature. She issues an A1 e-CPF by video call with the Registration Authority, in a session booked for late afternoon Barcelona time, installs it on her laptop and signs the PDF in PAdES. The filing is approved with no further demands, and the certificate remains available for her income tax return and the power of attorney her mother needed. — A frequent situation among professionals with an administrative life in both Spain and Brazil
How to get the Brazilian firma digital, stage by stage
Before you decide
“These days I speak Spanish or Italian better than Portuguese”
Validation is conducted in Portuguese or English, at an unhurried pace; technical vocabulary is explained during the session.
“My only valid Brazilian ID is my passport”
That's sufficient. Expired RG and CNH aren't needed when the passport is current.
“I'm worried about mixing up the two signatures”
Each certificate is a separate file or token; signing tools show which one is in use. Neither interferes with the other.
“Isn't the consulate cheaper?”
The consulate authenticates signatures on physical documents, by appointment and with a fee per act. The certificate signs unlimited documents for its validity period.
Transparent pricing
The e-CPF is the Brazilian firma digital for individuals; the e-CNPJ, for companies. Both are issued from abroad and sign an unlimited number of documents while valid.
Starting price; the final figure depends on A1 or A3 and the validity period, agreed on WhatsApp in Portuguese, Spanish or English.
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