Originally Posted by MIKESILV
As I understand it US citizens need a visa to enter Brasil and are photographed and fingerprinted upon entry, in addition are required to pay the $100 reciprocity fee ( or is it for the visa? ) .
Is that for every entry or is the visa/fee and the photograph/fingerprinting good for a period.
I may have to enter the country twice in an 10 day span in Nov.
Also if I am flying say from BA connecting onward in GRU do I have to go through the above?
Thanks.
mike
The $100 for the visa is collected when you submit your visa application. That fee for the visa covers me for a 5-year multi-entry tourist visa as long as I entered within 90 days of it being issued. [It's a use it or lose it entry permit, in effect.] [The visas for more official travel are priced differently.]
If you are connecting, then you don't need a visa as you don't have to clear immigration to make an onward connection to say EZE; however, if you get stuck in GRU due to some issue of flights being cancelled and the like, then you may or may not come to regret not having a visa. But if you, as an American, don't use the visa, you've just wasted the money.