Post: #1

Go to the international airport (GIG), terminal 1, floor 3. Follow the signs to the immigration office. Tell them you want to renew and they'll direct you to the correct line.

After filing out a form, they give you an invoice and you go to the bank on the same floor to pay the fee (67 R$). Then go back to the office and hopefully you'll visa will be ready. That's it.

I didn't need a credit card, proof of ongoing travel, or bank statements... only my passport and the money.

Note that you get three months extra based on when you go. So if your initial stamps expires January 22 and you go to renew on January 20, you'll get a stamp until April 20. So just wait until the last day.

You can stay in brazil for six months and then you have to leave for six months. Border runs don't work. If you overstay then you simply pay a fine. I think it runs about 100-200 R$ per month overstay but I'm not certain.

Boa sorte

Post: #2

(01-19-2010 01:10 PM)Roosh Wrote:  If you overstay then you simply pay a fine. I think it runs about 100-200 R$ per month overstay but I'm not certain.

That's hilarious. I think if I wanted to stay longer I'd probably just go ahead and stay illegally in that case. Are other Latin American countries, such as Colombia, like that?

Post: #3

(01-19-2010 11:33 PM)Shaman Wrote:  That's hilarious. I think if I wanted to stay longer I'd probably just go ahead and stay illegally in that case.

Yeah, thats not that much money. Not enough to prevent me from staying.

Post: #4

in colombia you can stay longer by paying someone to get a dodgy student visa

Post: #5

In colombia you can stay illegally too. About $100/month fine for overstay. And you can come back no problems.

Post: #6

(01-19-2010 11:33 PM)Shaman Wrote:  

(01-19-2010 01:10 PM)Roosh Wrote:  If you overstay then you simply pay a fine. I think it runs about 100-200 R$ per month overstay but I'm not certain.

That's hilarious. I think if I wanted to stay longer I'd probably just go ahead and stay illegally in that case. Are other Latin American countries, such as Colombia, like that?

Yo, but if you do this and overstay your visa, you will not be able to get another visa to return to Brazil in the future for at least ten years. I´m almost positive on that. That´s what I hear from friends and that is the laws the US has, which Brazil enforces the same laws that other countries enforce on their citizens.

Post: #7

Quote:You will not be able to get another visa to return to Brazil in the future for at least ten years

I'm almost positive that's not true. Sounds like the case if you get deported. If you pay the fine you're straight and come back in six months.

Post: #8

If you overstay your visa in Brasil, you'll be added to a kind of black list where you wouldn't be allowed into the country in the future. That's what the official book says in Brasil. But Brasil being Brasil, there's always a jeitinho around it. Here are 2 things around this:

Apparently, the immigration systems are not as sophisticated as they would want to make us believe and the systems at GIG and GRU are not properly linked. So one one option would be to get into Brasil at GIG and leave at GRU or vice versa. An even simpler way is to declare your passport lost once you return to your country, get a new passport and enter Brasil with the new passport. This way, your passport is clean you won't appear in any of the data bases. This is something I have heard a few people do with success, but I personally have not, so use it at your own risks and perils. But worth the risk IMO.

Post: #9

Whether or not that's the law, it's definitely not enforced. Again as long as you pay the fine and are not deported, you can come back after six months.

Post: #10

Forget about loosing your old and coming back with a new passport. The Brazilian immigration computer system is very up-to-date now. Even with a second nationality (and another passport of that) they will find all your information and how long you had stayed in total throughout the last year. And if you were fined, you might be stopped at the border. The new laws are extremely strict now. Don't risk it, it is not worth it.