Agency Brazil - Ordinance regulates visa exemption for tourists during Olympics

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Date / Time: 12/30/2015 - 17:26:37 Enlarge text Shrink text
Agency Brazil - Ordinance regulates visa exemption for tourists during Olympics
Tourists Australians, Canadians, Americans and Japanese who come to Brazil between June 1 and September 18, 2016 are exempt from a visa. This was fixed by joint decree of the Ministries of Tourism, Justice and Foreign Affairs published today (30) in the Official Gazette. The text regulates the unilateral exemption of visas for tourists in the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The exemption will be valid for 90 days, counted from the date of entry in Brazil. Are excluded from the submission of the visa those who come to the country in order to perform paid activities or participate in research activities, internships, studies and works of social or voluntary, among others.

The Ministry of Tourism reported that, to set the country benefited from the temporary exemption of visas on the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, we considered factors such as high international outbound flow and positive history in sending tourists to Brazil; countries that spend more on Brazil, strong Olympic tradition and low migratory and security. The expectation is to receive 20% of the nationalities tourists contemplated the most in this period.

In November, President Dilma Rousseff had sanctioned without vetoes law that visa waiver tourists who visit Brazil during the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2016, which will be played in Rio de Janeiro. The decree published today regulates the decision.

Brazil has according to more than 70 countries for entry of Brazilians abroad without a visa, and vice versa. Despite facilitating access to the country, the government ensures that the measure was taken after talks with the Federal Police and that there is no harm to the issues of security and intelligence.

Source: Agency Brazil