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I got a business visa from a passport/visa service. Very quick turnaround but it's expensive.
Same anwer as lonetraveller. I've done it a couple of times and all worked well.
Do you think you'll be returning to Brazil again within the next few years? Ask for a 5-year visa. Same cost.
Thanks for your help. We have selected a company called Passports Plus. Unfortunately, the Houston office for Brazlian passports had taken a holiday for about a week. As a result, we had the choice of spending more money to have our visa requests sent to the Brazilian Embassy in D.C. or waiting another about three weeks to get our visas for a discounted price. We chose the latter, but we haven't received our visas yet, so I can't report complete success. I'll update when I know more.
Bob, how did the Passports Plus work out? We are going to Brazil in January, 2010 and will need to get a visa also.
Lynn, which company did you use?
If you live in a city with a Brazilian consulate you can get the visa yourself with little trouble and no additional fees. We got ours in Chicago last week.
always DIY
www.brasilemb.org
find the address of nearest consulte
send in your papaerwork
$130 for a VITUR(tourist visa)
piece of cake quick turaround usually
Unfortunately, visa by mail is not an option for me.
This is the message posted on the Houston Consulate website:
"As of Saturday, Jun 27th 2009, VISA BY MAIL service has been suspended. This Consulate will accept visa requests posted up to June 27th (date of US Post Office stamp). Please be aware that all envelopes sent after this date will not be accepted. The Consulate cannot be held responsible for loss of passport and /or personal documents after that date."
Either I drive 5 hours to Houston or pay for a visa service.
DIY is not without its perils. I live in DC and couldn't bring myself to pay a visa service when I could drive to the Consulate myself. Had application, photo, postal money order -- and every other piece if paper I could think of. Turns out Iguassu International airport is on Argentine side, so we technically enter Brazil by land and therefore have to provide a bank statement, even though we are traveling as part of group tour. No time to get to a computer and print out a copy before "visiting hours" were over today. So I'll be going back tomorrow -- and then [hopefully] return in 4 days to pick up the visa
I live in Chicaago. So I was able to just mail in our visa applications with passports, photos and US postal money order for $150 per app.
I mailed it in the Tuesday, June 30 and got it back on Tuesday, July 7!