Are you from Canada, Japan, Australia or US?

Good news for some countries. Do you need a visa to visit Brazil?

Yes, that’s great news but only if you are coming from Japan, United States, Australia or Canada.

A difficult visa to get – Brazilian Visa

Historicaly Brazil is a country that made difficult for Americans to get a visa. Visas were both complicated and expensive. And you have to go to a consulate to get it. This was made easier with eletronic visas for US citizens. From early 2018 was costing no longer US$ 160 but US$ 40 to obtain a tourist visa to visit Brazil.

This was just an example. All t he other countries mentioned above were under the reciprocity program. If a Brazilian needs a visit to visit Japan, a Japanese would have to go through a similar process to get his visa as well.

Bolsonaro talks to Trump

Our president, Jair Bolsonaro, during a meeting with US president Trump in January promissed to eliminate visa requirements to these countries. He’s hooping t o boost the country’s  tourism sector and get closer to the US at the same time.

Therefore as of June 17, 2019, Brazil will eliminate the tourist visa requirements from the  US, Japan, Australia and Canada.

Brazil gets about 7 million tourists a year, and by 2022 we are hopping to double this amount to about 14 million tourists annualy.

And for me, as a tour operator, these news in Brazil’s foreing policy in regards to tourism couldn’t come soon enough.

Do I need a visa?

If you wish to know if you need a tourist visa to vist Brazil, please visit this site.

Elections in Brazil will be over next Sunday, 28th October.

Former army captain Jair Bolsonaro and Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad advanced from the first round vote and will face off in the October 28th runoff.

Bolsonaro is well ahead on the polls and should win the elections to become Brazil’s next president. People are tired of the old politics and are choosing new faces to lead them.

Elections in Rio de Janeiro

Rio will also have 2 candidates fighting each other to become the next governor: Eduardo Paes and Wilson Witzel. The second one is leading the polls and should win.

One of the biggest problems in Bazil (and in Rio) is security for its people. Violence is growing in many areas and this is the main reason why these 2 candidates will most probably win the elections. Both have clear programs to combat violence head on in the favelas and in the poorest areas in the country. Let’s wait and see what happens…