Flávio Bolsonaro has fled to the United States after defying a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, and a senior State Department official told the BBC and AP on Tuesday evening that "the State Department will issue visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States". CNN Brasil, citing sources linked to the US government, reported that he arrived on Tuesday with his wife Fernanda and their two daughters, after a US official told CNN he was on a flight to Florida. Three sources told Reuters he had left; one of them, close to the family, said the administration had granted the family asylum, which no official has confirmed.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered him on Sunday night, hours after he lost the runoff to Lula and refused to concede, to surrender his ordinary and diplomatic passports within 24 hours and barred him from leaving the country, in a Federal Police investigation into money laundering and illegal capital flight involving him and the lawyer Willer Tomaz, who already lives in the United States. Bolsonaro said in a video that he would comply and called the order intimidation. His campaign lost contact with him early on Tuesday, the deadline passed at 11am and the Federal Police cancelled his passports.

Infobae reported that he crossed into Argentina on his national identity card at Foz do Iguaçu, where Brazil does not monitor the bridge, and that a Gulfstream jet that had flown from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazú on Monday night asked at 12:30am to leave as a "medical flight" bound for the United States; Argentine provincial authorities grounded the aircraft.