Originally Posted by vandykes44
We applied for our Brazilian visas by mail last year. We live in Michigan and sent all the necessary paperwork and $110 per visa to the consulate in Chicago and had our visas back in about 3 weeks.
All of this was changed on January 1, 2005, according to the Los Angeles Consulate website: " Effective 01/01/05, the Consulate will only take walk-in applications. Alternatively, you may hire the services of a Visa agency".
I called the Consulate to confirm: yes, it is correct, walk-ins only. I asked if I could send my application to the Washington DC office: no, it will be retured to me without processing.
At this point, I would probably follow the advice of
Jaimito Cartero and will use Visa Express services. Thanks to everybody for the input.