Can I renew my US passport by mail while I'm outside the country?
score:9
I am not sure what are you worried about renewing your passport at a US Embassy. If you're married to a Brazilian national you should have a method of staying in the country legally, which is irrelevant for this question but you should have availed yourself of it.
If your passport is less then 15 years old and have not been damaged in any way you can submit it by mail and you don't have to be in the country to do it.
HOWEVER
State Department will not send the passport back to an address outside the United States and the payment usually is required by check from a US bank or Money Order. So you will need to have someone in the US receive your passport, send it to State Department, receive it from them and send it to you in Brazil.
I think the simplest way would be to renew your passport when you're ready to leave instead of now.
Upvote:1
Regarding your fear of being illegal in Brazil and not being able to renew your passport at the U.S. Embassy:
Your illegal status is relevant to Brazil.
Spain doesn't care about your Brazilian status and neither would America, because you're not breaking those countries' laws.
The U.S. Embassy is on American soil, with American officers, without legal jurisdiction in Brazil.
Moreover, the U.S. Embassy is seen as a safe haven for American citizens. I don't see them handing you over to the Brazilian government. Imagine the news headlines: U.S. Embassy Betrays American Citizen because he Fell in Love
Bottom line - I wouldn't be too concerned about going to the U.S. Embassy if I was illegal in another country.
(standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. But I am a 7-year travel veteran with a passport almost full of stamps and multi-page visas.)
Upvote:7
I once had extra pages put into my passport at a US consulate when I had "overstayed my welcome" in the country in question. The US consulate displayed exactly zero interest in my immigration status in that country.
You ask
Are there any considerations to be taken when doing this?
Yes: you're making life much harder for yourself than you need to, in light of the fact that the US embassy does not care about your immigration status in Brazil.
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