Do Australians Need a Visa for Brazil? Yes, and It Can Last 5 Years

Americans share the rule, its 2019–2025 history and the platform; that part lives in our guide for US citizens. This page covers what differs.

Canberra or Sydney, and who tracks your e-Visa

The Consulate-General in Sydney serves New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory. The Embassy in Canberra serves the ACT, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. Honorary consuls cannot issue visas, Sydney's page on them states.

Canberra writes that "the Embassy can not access or provide updates on the status of your E-Visa application through the VFS GLOBAL system." It sends questions to Brazilevisa@vfsglobal.com, with the application number, which begins with "BRA". Sydney warns: "VFS Global is the ONLY provider for this service."

Canberra limits the e-Visa to tourism, transit and business. Journalism, volunteer work or a short course need the consular visit visa: an online form, documents on e-Consular, then lodgement in person or by mail. Canberra says those "are usually processed in 2 weeks".

One visa, two currencies

Canberra prices the e-Visa in US dollars and itemizes it: "US$80.90 (US$80.00 for the consular fee + US$0.90 for the service fee for the platform)", paid by card inside the platform. Sydney's table says AUD 152.00 "(+processing fee)".

The consular part of both matches Brazil's fee schedule, Portaria MRE 664/2026, in force since June 1, 2026. Its item 220.11 charges 80 reais-ouro, gold reais, for the e-Visa, and the Consular Regulation sets one gold real at US$1.00. Every visit-visa line in Sydney's table equals the schedule amount times 1.90. That factor is our arithmetic; neither post publishes a rate.

The consular visa costs more. Item 220.2, named "Reciprocidade Austrália", charges 120 gold reais, which both posts list as AUD 228. No fee is refundable, and Canberra says the e-Visa has no expedited option.

Five years to use it, 90 days to stay

Canberra writes that the e-Visa "is valid for up to 5 years with multiple entries". Sydney's notice is flatter: "The visa is valid for 5 years." The platform's page for Australians agrees: "The eVisa is valid for 5 years on Multiple entries."

Stay runs on its own clock: up to 90 days, a count that pauses, rather than restarts, while you are out of Brazil. Canberra adds that "Foreigners holding an e-Visa may not stay more than 180 days per year in Brazil." Extensions are discretionary; how the year is counted is in the visa hub.

What Australia asks of Brazilians

The Australian fee line is named for reciprocity. Brazilian passports qualify for neither of Australia's lighter routes, the ETA and the eVisitor. Home Affairs sends "Other passport holders" to the Visitor visa, subclass 600, at "From AUD250.00" when applied for from outside Australia.

Youth mobility is the exception. A memorandum signed on March 31, 2022 opened Australia's work and holiday visa to up to 500 young Brazilians a year, and Brazil reciprocates with its VITEM VI. Canberra's terms for Australians, with the age as the memorandum words it:

• at least 18 and not yet 31 when applying
• valid for up to one year, and not extendable
• health and accident insurance for the whole stay
• 500 visas a year, issued only in Canberra and Sydney

Families: children and dual citizens

For a child's e-Visa, Sydney asks for a parental consent letter and adds: "The parents’ signatures must be notarized by a Justice of the Peace (with stamp and registration number) or a Notary Public." The Consular Regulation says the travel authorization of an e-Visa minor traveling alone or with one parent need not be notarized. The platform, where the e-Visa is filed, wants it "Signed by both parents and notarized".

Since August 20, 2026, a Foreign Ministry guideline lets a Brazilian who is also Australian apply for a visit visa on the Australian passport, through VFS. Both posts recommend entering with your Brazilian document, even an expired one, or the Federal Police may apply the visa's stay limits. Smartraveller, updated September 26, 2026, is split: it says dual nationals "must enter and exit Brazil using their Brazilian passport", and elsewhere accepts "a valid Brazilian visa in your Australian passport".

Sources

Read September 28, 2026.

• Embassy in Canberra — e-Visa, visit visa and fees, updated September 3, 2026; visa guide, September 20; work-holiday visa, May 13, 2024; dual citizens, September 23
• Consulate-General in Sydney — visitor visa notice, February 16, 2026; guidelines, August 25; fees, March 17; jurisdiction; honorary consuls; dual citizens, August 21
• Presidency — Decree 9,199/2017, arts. 9, 15, 17 and 20
• Foreign Ministry — visa chart, August 26, 2026
• Official Gazette — Portaria MRE 664/2026, items 220.2 and 220.11; Consular Regulation, NSCJ 4.1.45, 12.1.16, 12.1.17, 12.1.23 and 12.3.42; Portaria MRE 495/2023
• VFS Global — e-Visa FAQ and tourist visa page
• Australian Government — Smartraveller, September 26, 2026; Home Affairs on the ETA and eVisitor, September 8, 2026, and the Visitor visa; the ministerial release of March 31, 2022; the memorandum itself

Method on how we research; Jeff Bruno writes from Curitiba. Next door: layovers, yellow fever, the arrival card, driving on an Australian license, travel advisories, staying longer.

What we could not verify

• The currency an Australian card is charged in. The posts disagree, and neither states a rate. The platform's tourist visa page gives the fee only as "$80.90", with no currency code, and we do not run test applications.
• Where the five years come from. Decree 9,199 lets an e-Visa exceed one year, up to a maximum set by an act of the foreign minister. The only act we found, the consular regulation, gives it a stamped visit visa's validity; Australia's line in the visa chart shows no long validity, and the treaty registry holds no visit-visa agreement with Australia in force.