Travelling to Brazil with dual nationality - do I need a visa?
Jan 1, 2014, 2:12 pm
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Travelling to Brazil with dual nationality - do I need a visa?
I'm a US resident and citizen. I also have a UK passport.
US needs a visa for Brazil I understand. Will an airline permit me to board without a visa, intending to use my UK passport for entry? Or will they get funny and deny me boarding?
Anyone with any experience here?
Thanks!
US needs a visa for Brazil I understand. Will an airline permit me to board without a visa, intending to use my UK passport for entry? Or will they get funny and deny me boarding?
Anyone with any experience here?
Thanks!
Jan 1, 2014, 3:11 pm
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Let me move this to the forum dedicated to Brazil, and in that forum, you'll see a consolidated thread discussing some visa issues: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brazi...questions.html
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Jan 1, 2014, 5:08 pm
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I'm a US resident and citizen. I also have a UK passport.
US needs a visa for Brazil I understand. Will an airline permit me to board without a visa, intending to use my UK passport for entry? Or will they get funny and deny me boarding?
Anyone with any experience here?
Thanks!
US needs a visa for Brazil I understand. Will an airline permit me to board without a visa, intending to use my UK passport for entry? Or will they get funny and deny me boarding?
Anyone with any experience here?
Thanks!
You will have no problem as both the USA and UK allow dual nationality.
Show THE UK passport when going to Brazil, and the US passport on the return portion.
I have done this myself (though with different passports. )
You will be fine.
Jan 2, 2014, 1:52 am
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Let me move this to the forum dedicated to Brazil, and in that forum, you'll see a consolidated thread discussing some visa issues: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brazi...questions.html
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Jan 2, 2014, 8:14 am
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Dual nationality travellers are well known to GAs.
You will have no problem as both the USA and UK allow dual nationality.
Show THE UK passport when going to Brazil, and the US passport on the return portion.
I have done this myself (though with different passports. )
You will be fine.
You will have no problem as both the USA and UK allow dual nationality.
Show THE UK passport when going to Brazil, and the US passport on the return portion.
I have done this myself (though with different passports. )
You will be fine.
Jan 2, 2014, 12:13 pm
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That 's not what the poster was saying. You show both passports to the airline when leaving the US ( so they know you can enter and they will not have to return you to point of departure at their expense). You enter and leave Brazil on the UK passport, which does not require a Brazilian visa, and receives a 90 day prazo on entry. On leaving Brazil, the airline at the airport in Brazil will probably not ask about visa status for the US, but if so, just show the US passport. You re- enter the US on the US passport.
Jan 2, 2014, 2:53 pm
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That 's not what the poster was saying. You show both passports to the airline when leaving the US ( so they know you can enter and they will not have to return you to point of departure at their expense). You enter and leave Brazil on the UK passport, which does not require a Brazilian visa, and receives a 90 day prazo on entry. On leaving Brazil, the airline at the airport in Brazil will probably not ask about visa status for the US, but if so, just show the US passport. You re- enter the US on the US passport.
Oct 1, 2014, 2:17 pm
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Back - and happy to report all was as VidaNaPraia said!
Nice first visit to Brazil, I am looking forward to going back next year.
Nice first visit to Brazil, I am looking forward to going back next year.
Oct 2, 2014, 4:34 am
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I'm a US resident and citizen. I also have a UK passport.
US needs a visa for Brazil I understand. Will an airline permit me to board without a visa, intending to use my UK passport for entry? Or will they get funny and deny me boarding?
Anyone with any experience here?
Thanks!
US needs a visa for Brazil I understand. Will an airline permit me to board without a visa, intending to use my UK passport for entry? Or will they get funny and deny me boarding?
Anyone with any experience here?
Thanks!
Many of us here on MP have multiple nationalities so there is lots of experience with the various entry exit processes around the world.
Oct 10, 2014, 9:23 am
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As US citizens with dual passports are required to travel from/to their home country with their U.S. passport.
Oct 18, 2014, 5:00 am
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This is a technicality, no doubt, but Brazilians require only a national ID card (RG) to enter and leave Brazil plus whatever documents they require to enter their destination country, and leave the country from which they embark to return to Brazil. While usually in advisable, this absolutely works, as Mrs JBC found when we forgot to renew her Brazilian passport. We embarked on a voyage to seven countries with no Brazilian passport, with entry and exit to Brazil on the RG. Nobody blinked, including our air carriers AF and KL.. The same easy time a week later for a U.S. trip on AA.
Oct 19, 2014, 9:39 am
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This is a technicality, no doubt, but Brazilians require only a national ID card (RG) to enter and leave Brazil plus whatever documents they require to enter their destination country, and leave the country from which they embark to return to Brazil. While usually in advisable, this absolutely works, as Mrs JBC found when we forgot to renew her Brazilian passport. We embarked on a voyage to seven countries with no Brazilian passport, with entry and exit to Brazil on the RG. Nobody blinked, including our air carriers AF and KL.. The same easy time a week later for a U.S. trip on AA.
The only reports I have ever seen of problems have been with the air carrier into Brazil, which wants to avoid carrying the passenger in question back to the departure point at airline expense.
Afaik, the "requirement" in Brazil stipulates passport, though, not simply (RG) ID, but I can't quote the legal statute.