Brazil will reinstate visa necessities for residents from the US, Canada, and Australia on Thursday, a transfer that ends six years of visa-free entry for guests from these international locations, the Related Press reported.
American, Canadian, and Australian residents must fill out a kind on-line for an digital visa and pay a $80.90 payment to remain in Brazil for as much as 90 days.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had lifted the visa necessities in 2019 as a part of his technique to spice up the nation’s tourism trade and economic system. Bolsonaro’s successor, present President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, sought to reintroduce the necessities for American, Canadian, and Australian guests in March 2023, citing the very fact Brazilians wanted visas to enter these international locations.
“Brazil doesn’t grant unilateral exemption from visiting visas, with out reciprocity, to different international locations,” the nation’s overseas ministry mentioned on the time, as quoted by the Related Press, noting that the choice to grant the visa exemptions had represented “a break with the sample of Brazilian migration coverage, traditionally primarily based on the ideas of reciprocity and equal therapy.”
Brazil’s authorities had delayed the reintroduction of the visa requirement thrice.
The transfer to reintroduce the visa requirement comes after President Donald Trump imposed a ten% tariff on imports from Brazil.
Brazil introduced in a little bit greater than 6.6 million guests in 2024, a 12.6% enhance from the earlier yr, in response to information from the nation’s Ministry of Tourism, the nationwide tourism company Embratur, and Brazil’s federal police. Roughly 700,000 Individuals visited Brazil in 2024, representing the nation’s second-largest supply of vacationers behind Argentina.
