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Traveling to Brazil will continue to be a simple process for tourists from the United States, Canada and Australia.As long as individuals from these countries have a passport, they will be allowed entry in Brazil without needing a visa, according to a decree published on April 9.The notice essentially delays by one year looming requirements that a visa be purchased to enter Brazil. That rule is set to go into effect on April 10, 2025, according to the publication The Brasilians.Initial plans had called for visa requirements beginning in January 2024. But that timeline was later postponed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) who felt the decision might have a negative impact on tourism during Brazil’s high season.Travel industry businesses including operator associations and tourism agencies in the impacted countries have already been notified of the extension, according to The Brazilian Agency for International Tourism Promotion (Embratur).The goal under the deferral is to ensure that Brazil’s electronic visa program is fully up and running before applying the visa requirement for travelers from the United States, Canada and Australia.Embratur also stressed: “the importance of the government’s decision to maintain growth in the arrival of foreign tourists from these international markets, notably the United States, the second largest emitter to Brazil in 2023, with 668,478 tourists (11.31% of the total) ,” according to The Brasilians publication.During the first two months of 2024, the arrival of North Americans in Brazil was 11 percent higher than the same time frame one year earlier.
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