What website? It should only be that easy. Brazilians must often travel thousands of miles to Rio at their own expense to line up outside the US Consulate at 6am and wait in the hot sun until they are called. They are asked for several years of detailed financial documents (no redacting of account numbers as US applicants can do), as well as a myriad of others. In fact, the process makes what some US citizens (and I must say I have never had any problems getting a visa easily at “my” Brazilian Consulate) are asked for look beneficent in comparison.


Who has the right to decide what is in the best interest of whom? Your statement comes across as being rather arrogantly patronizing.
My tour guide friend has all the business he can handle these days, as do the other guides he recommends when he usually has no space in his schedule.
“Those people selling matte (sic) on the beach” are victims of a long-entrenched political/cultural situation that is not going to be cured, or much helped, by throwing a few centavos at them for their labor/product.

As I mentioned, all the good tour guides I know have more business than they can handle.

Hotels, particularly in Rio, cannot currently meet demand, and prices have risen sharply because of that over the past few years.
I saw a statistic the other day, I wish I could remember where so as to quote it, that showed the laughably miniscule percentage of spending that foreign tourist dollars make up in the Brazilian economy.

As the poster said,
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Originally Posted by carolnl
So, yeah... since so many people are actually applying to go to Brazil, your touristy dollars will not be so missed.


Maybe the merchants in Miami think the opposite, with all the Brazilian tourists who come just to spend thousands each shopping there.