BORN IN BRAZIL? If you were born in Brazil and you apply for Brazil visa with a new U.S. passport, you'll be granted visa only if the decree regarding the lost of your citizenship has been published in the Brazilian official newspaper (Diário Oficial da União).
BRAZIL BUSINESS VISA DESCRIPTION
SPECIAL NOTE: Your visa will expire if you do not enter Brazil within NINETY (90) days of issuance of the visa. Please do not apply more than 3 months before your intended trip to Brazil.
VALIDITY: Normally, Brazil business visas are good for multiple entries and anywhere between 30-days and 2-years. It is up to the consulate whether you get short term (30-day, 90-day) or long-term (1year, 2year) business visas. The consulate takes into consideration the content of your business letters when deciding on the validity. If you wish to obtain a longer term visa, you should ask for it and explain in greater detail why you need to travel to Brazil several times a year.
MAXIMUM STAY IN BRAZIL: Unless there is a restrictive note in your visa, you can stay up to 90 days (or up to 30 days if visa was granted just for 30 days) per visit in Brazil. You can extend your stay and your visa for another 90 days while you are in Brazil. It is done by local Brazilian Federal Police Department (Delegacia de Estrangeiros). Click here for procedures and difficulties obtaining visa extension.
BUSINESS VISA PRACTICALITIES:
Business visa holders are not allowed to engage in any paid activity under employment contract with a Brazilian organization/corporation. You also cannot engage in any of the following activities (e.g. training on equipment, employee training, business practice training, implementation or modification, provision of services, installation or repair of machinery, software development, laboratory or field work, recurrent office tasks).
If your spouse and children are accompanying on your business trip, they should apply for regular Tourist Brazil Visa.
Legally, you can stay in Brazil no more than 180 days per each 365 days on tourist visa. If you reach a limit, you must leave Brazil and re-enter in 6 months only. This is the law, but enforcement, and actual count of days, which you have spent in Brazil, lies on shoulders of immigration and federal officials. Interpretation may vary significantly from border-crossing post to another.Click here for procedures and difficulties obtaining visa extension.
It is a common practice among business people to go to Brazil and transact business with tourism visa. Brazil government highly opposes this practice, but there is not much, it can do to control it. As an official partner of Brazil consulate, we recommend you to apply for a visa that corresponds to your purpose of trip. However, it is up to you whether you do so or not.
To apply for a Brazil Business visa online, continue with this page. OR YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS BRAZIL VISA STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE, to do it old-fashioned way.
We must receive all of the following documents before, we can start working on your Brazil visa request:
1. Valid United States Passport
You have to MAIL us your current valid and signed US passport. Passport should be valid at least SIX (6) months after your intended arrival to Brazil. Also, you should make sure you have at least ONE completely blank page for visas in your passport.
If your passport is about to expire or needs more pages, please obtain new, renew or add pages to Your passport.
2. Completed Brazil Visa Application
Complete Visa Application Online - website will open in a new window (choose VISA REQUEST). As of June 9, 2008, all visa applicants will be required to fill out on-line the Visa Application Form. The information that you enter is not submitted electronically. It is only used to generate the printed form and your request number. After completing the application form online, please print it. Please do not forget to sign and date your application. We will accept only applications completed online. If the government link above does not work (it happens on rear occasions), please download, complete, and sign this Visa Application (download here) instead.
3. ONE (1) Passport-Style Photograph
It must be 2x2 inches in size. We always recommend using a professional photographer to avoid delays. You can choose to submit digitized photo to us via email: info@gotobrazil.com (in subject line put travelers first and last names). Additional $10 Photo Printing FEE will be added to your request. NOTE: Photo must be high resolution, clear, and provide proper contrast and white background for it to be accepted by the consulate.
4. A Copy of Roundtrip ticket/itinerary
It must contain the name of passenger, the confirmed itinerary, airline/cruise company, flight or vessel name, dates of arrival/departure from Brazil. It can be an electronic ticket. If you don't have one, we will be glad to provide you one. Additional $15 Reservation FEE will be added to your request
5. Business Letter (from your employer) Please provide a business letter, which includes:
- The name of a reference/visiting firm in Brazil.
- Brief description of your job duties
- Detailed explanation of the nature of business to be performed as well as duration of stay.
- Company guarantee of financial responsibility for all travel expenses incurred by you.
- The letter must be on company letterhead and signed by your management
6. Business Letter (from your partners in Brazil) Please provide a business invitation letter from your partners in Brazil, which includes:
- Explains the business relationship between the two companies
- Detailed explanation of the nature of business to be performed as well as duration of stay.
- If possible, consulate prefers this letter to be in Portuguese
7. A Copy of Driver's License
Please provide a current copy of your Driver’s License or State ID. If you do not have one, you can mail copy of your utility bill, bank statement, or any other document clearly stating your permanent address.
8. A Copy of Yellow Fever Vaccination (if you've visited certain countries in the past 90 days)
You are required to have the vaccination if you travel in the past 90 days or will visit one of these countries before entering Brazil: Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and Venezuela.
9. Non-US Passport Holders (proof of your legal status in the USA)
Please provide a proof of your legal status in the USA (i.e. copy of your green card (front and back), valid visa, I-20, IAP-66, etc.)
Fees below already include: Consular fee and our service fees.