Documents & Visas

Visa by nationality, customs, layovers

• Do Australians Need a Visa for Brazil? Yes, and It Can Last 5 YearsAustralian passports have needed a Brazilian visa since April 10, 2025. What Canberra and Sydney publish: the e-Visa, its fee in two currencies, up to 5 years.Sep 28, 2026 · 6 min read
• Do You Need the Yellow Fever Vaccine for Brazil?Brazil does not ask for the yellow fever certificate at its border. The document exists for the country you fly to next, and Anvisa issues it only in Brazil.Sep 24, 2026 · 8 min read
• Does Brazil Have an Arrival Card? What You Fill InBrazil deleted the paper entry-and-exit card with the 2017 Migration Act. Immigration asks for no form, and the one form left belongs to customs.Sep 24, 2026 · 5 min read
• Brazil's Customs Form: What the English Version Does Not Tell YouThe customs allowance is no longer written in the rule most pages quote, and Brazil's official English guide is four years behind its Portuguese twin.Sep 8, 2026 · 9 min read
• Do I Need a Visa for Brazil? How the Rule Is DecidedBrazil answers with a chart, not a law, and the chart is revocable. Who is exempt, for how long, how the days are counted, and what the border can ask.Sep 2, 2026 · 12 min read
• Do US Citizens Need a Visa for Brazil? Yes, Since 2025Americans have needed a Brazilian visitor visa since April 10, 2025. The e-Visa is the only route, and most of the web still quotes the old rule.Sep 2, 2026 · 9 min read
• A British Passport in Brazil: No Visa, and a Clock of Its OwnBritish visitors need no visa for Brazil, and the official chart says so. The ceiling underneath it runs on a different calendar from a German's.Sep 2, 2026 · 6 min read
• Brazil Visa for Indian Citizens: The e-Visa Is Not for YouIndian passport holders need a Brazilian visa and cannot use the e-Visa. The route is consular: a form, an appointment, and a counter in New Delhi.Sep 2, 2026 · 9 min read
• Layover in Brazil: When a Connection Needs a VisaStay inside the international transit area and Brazil asks for no visa. Leave it — bags, terminals, a night in town — and your passport's rule applies.Sep 2, 2026 · 5 min read
• Apostille in Brazil: Who Issues It and What It CostsBrazil issues apostilles at private notary and registry offices, not at a ministry, and the same act costs 28 times more in one state than in another.Aug 28, 2026 · 9 min read