NOTE: Visa types and descriptions are listed below. Click here for further information on application procedures and requirements, and to schedule your visa submission appointment.

Tourist Visa:

• tourism trip
• visit relatives and/or friends
• unpaid participation in athletic or artistic event or competition. An invitation letter from the sponsoring organization in Brazil is required.
• unpaid participation in a scientific/academic seminar or conference sponsored by a research or academic institution. An invitation letter from the sponsoring organization in Brazil is required.

VITEM-I:

• Cultural program.
• Pursue scientific, technologic, or volunteer activities under the umbrella of an international cooperation program.
• Pursue professorial studies/ research/ teaching and/or pursue scientific/ technologic activities at a university, research, or similar organization.
• Attend school under an approved exchange student program.
• Work as an unpaid intern benefitting from a scholarship under the umbrella of a program sponsored by a Brazilian governmental agency, an international organization, or an authorized exchange student’s institution.
• Receive technical training in the operation and/or maintenance of machinery or equipment produced in Brazil.
• Receive training in Brazil as an under 21-year old amateur athlete.
• Community services and volunteering activities.
• Traveling to Brazil for medical treatment.

VITEM-II:

• Business, except when the trip involves the provision of services, such as technical assistance, installation, maintenance or repairs of equipment, in which case a Vitem V is mandatory.
• Travel for media coverage and/or film making.
• Flight/ship crew members without an international crew card , except if working on ship operating offshore, in which case a Vitem V is mandatory.
• Adoption of a Brazilian child.
• Participant/exhibitor in a trade/industrial exhibition

VITEM-III:

• paid participation in athletic or performing arts event.

VITEM-IV:

• Pursue graduate or post-graduate academic studies in Brazil.

VITEM-V:

• In-country provision of services of any nature, including intra-company.
• Provision of services to a Brazilian government agency/organization under a contract or an international agreement.
• Work under a Brazilian-ruled employment contract.
• Crew members and other oil/gas specialists providing services within Brazilian waters.
• Crew members serving aboard a fishing vessel chartered by a Brazilian company.
• Employees of foreign corporations to work as trainees or interns at their subsidiaries in Brazil.
• Crew members aboard a cruise ship operating in Brazilian waters.
• Medical residence.

VITEM-VI:

• media correspondents

VITEM-VII:

• Clergymen and missionaries with theological or academic religious education who intend to go to Brazil for religious purposes.

Permanent Visa:

• Family reunion.
• Retirement residence transfer.
• Work as a manager or director of a religious or social assistance organization.
• Personal investment in Brazil.
• Intra-company transferee to work as manager, director, or executive.
• Person of extraordinary ability in the sciences, technological, research, or academic fields, with a job offer at a Brazilian research, scientific, or academic organization.

Official Visa:

• official mission to Brazil