Yeah,
I was told this by the Brasiliero Consulado in DC when I needed to replace a 'damages' passport. They just said to bring the new one and the 'damaged' one and the visa would be good until the stamped date of expiry. I couldn't see paying another $100 when I still had 4 years left.
HTH.
Originally Posted by hfly
The visa is good for 5 years even if your passport expires way before then. This is actually the way that many visas work for many countries, its just that US citizens in general are so unaccustomed to Visas or long term visas that many posters here do not realize this (to explain it in extraordinarily long verbiage, let's pretend that you receive your 5 year Brazil tourist visa tomorrow - Jan 20, and let's pretend that you passport expires on July 1st. Your visa is still valid even after you get a new passport and your old old is Cancelled, you just bring along the old passport with the visa inside it and it works, for the full five year term that it was issued for. Incidentally it works the EXACT same way for foreign citizens and their US visas.