She has been a member of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) party since 2007.

[1][2] From 2000 to 2014 Correia was a lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture at the National University of East Timor (UNTL).

[1] She studied for her PhD at Universitas Gadjah Mada; her thesis examined peanut cultivation.

[1]  At number 12 on the CNRT's list, Correia successfully returned to parliament in the 2017 parliamentary elections.

[5] In the parliamentary elections in 2018, Correira failed to reach Parliament on list position 57 of the Aliança para Mudança e Progresso (AMP), the joint list of CNRT, PLP and KHUNTO.