Passport Fine (On Exit) for Losing Immigration Card
Jun 11, 2015, 8:32 am
#16
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: BR & CA
Programs: None no more
Posts: 186
Rafka, NPF, Vida; all conversant in many, many aspects of Brazil, including an extensive level of personal experience in entry and exit. With due respect, you are very unlikely going to receive more definitive answers to your original questions. And, any enquiry to Brazilian authorities, should you even get a response which is doubtful, will likely garner a range of answers that are just as speculative.
Jun 11, 2015, 11:01 am
#17
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,667
i) long ago, an even less than perfunctory control, where a Policia Federal officer would have looked at your passport (no checks, no computers) and just gave it back to you.
ii) beginning around 9/11 (2001), a period in which clerks (not Policia Federal officers) would look at your passport and sometimes (but not always), look something at a now existing computer
iii) for the last five/six years (no clear boundary in my mind), clerks who would systematically input something into a computer system.
ii) beginning around 9/11 (2001), a period in which clerks (not Policia Federal officers) would look at your passport and sometimes (but not always), look something at a now existing computer
iii) for the last five/six years (no clear boundary in my mind), clerks who would systematically input something into a computer system.
Jun 23, 2015, 6:48 am
#18
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 98
consulate will not have info because it is different government branch than immigration. best way to know, I think just flight in. other than that , no reliable way to know even if you call immigration. just like you want to know if one way ticket to allow boarding by calling reservation, no reliable info will be given.
Jul 24, 2015, 4:22 pm
#19
Join Date: May 2015
Programs: KLM FB Gold
Posts: 49
I am 99% sure that the record is lost since it's over 10 years ago and since you've also changed your passport. You can never be certain though. The problem with fines is if they are left unpaid, you will be penalized on top of the original fine, so things can get expensive. At the bigger airports an immigration officer will follow you to an ATM where you may withdraw any cash needed to pay your fine. Also, Banco do Brasil are present at most major airports in Brazil.
If I were you I wouldn't hesitate to go. Just relax and have a great trip
If I were you I wouldn't hesitate to go. Just relax and have a great trip