Visas

ENTERING BRAZIL WITHOUT A VISA **

Depending on the purpose of visit and on the visitor's nationality, a visa is not required to enter Brazil. Dutch citizens on a tourism or business trip to Brazil, for instance, are exempt. For other cases, check below at "How to apply for a visa" whether you are exempt or not. Even if you are exempt from a visa, on arrival in Brazil you must produce a passport valid for at least six months.

Argentinians, Bolivians, Chileans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Paraguayans, Peruvians and Uruguayans are exempt from passport requirement to enter Brazil as tourists. Nationals from these countries may simply produce their national identity cards instead.

Additionally, you may be required by the Brazilian Migration Police (Polícia Federal) to meet the following conditions:

1) Prove you have sufficient funds for your term of stay.

2) Demonstrate your travel objective (for instance, by means of a hotel reservation and a roundtrip ticket, in case of a tourism trip).
** List of countries for which Brazilian visa is required -click here

NEW VISA SYSTEM

HOW TO APPLY FOR A VISA

Visas are classified according to the nature of the trip and stay in Brazil.
Most cases of visa application fall under one of the types below.
Please click on the line that best fits your case or send an e-mail to
visas@consbras.nl asking for further instructions on how to apply.

VITUR - tourists
VIPER - investor
VIPER - manager or representative in Brazil of a financial foreign institution
VIPER - head of philanthropic or religious institution or public interest NGO
VIPER- retiree
VIPER - family reunion (marriage)
VIPER - researcher
VITEM I - trainee, researcher or exchange students program
VITEM I - voluntary worker
VITEM II - adoption
VITEM II - business trip
VITEM II - filming
VITEM III - artists and sportsmen
VITEM IV - undergraduate, master or doctorate student
VITEM V - professional worker
VITEM V - professional on an emergency technical assistance mission
VITEM VI - news correspondents
VITEM VII - ministers of a religious creed or members of a religious congregation

VIDIP and VISOF Diplomatic and Official Visas



AUTHORIZED VISAS
A few kinds of visas (VITEM-III, VITEM-V, VITEM-VI and VIPER) are only issued under authorization from Brazilian home authorities. Click here to check whether the Consulate General has been authorized to issue you a visa.

YELLOW FEVER

Recommended vaccination

Travellers older than six months of age are recommended to take vaccination against yellow fever until 10 days before the trip, if their destination in Brazil includes one of the states below:

Acre
Amapa
Amazonas
Bahia (west and south)
Distrito Federal
Espirito Santo (north)
Goiás
Maranhão
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso do Sul
Minas Gerais
Pará
Parana (west)
Piaui (south)
Rio Grande do Sul (west)
Rondonia
Roraima
Santa Catarina (west)
São Paulo (northwest)
Tocantins

Keep in mind that most of the Brazilian coast is not a risk area for yellow fever, from Rio Grande do Sul in the south, all the way up to Piauí, except for the north of Espírito Santo and the south of Bahia.

IMPORTANT REMARKS

The issuance of a visa is a discretionary act of a sovereign State. A visa can be granted, denied, extended or changed on the condition that it must serve national interests. A visa is not a right to enter, but an expectation to be admitted. A foreign citizen can be prevented to enter Brazil or to remain in the country if it is considered to be the in the interest of the nation by a decision of the Ministry of Justice executed by the Federal Police.

Whenever there is a doubt on the purpose of the trip or the identification of the applicant, he/she may be required to have an interview with a consular officer, who may request additional documents.