Comments on: Brazil and intentional proof

Question: Brazil and intentional proof

deadfather — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:51:23 -0800

How do I prove I'm leaving Brazil if I don't know how I'm leaving Brazil?

Fair enough: In order to get a travel visa to Brazil, you have to prove that you're leaving the country at some point. We're flying into Rio and, two weeks later, out of Buenos Aires. We plan on visiting Iguassu Falls at the Argentine border and then crossing somehow via bus, I guess. Do I have to buy a bus ticket now and present that to the consulate? Or is it enough that I've got a ticket to leave the continent?

By: whatzit

whatzit — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:08:03 -0800

Just curious, but how are you getting from Rio to Iguazu? That is a long way, and you might get your proof just by having to buy plane tickets from Rio to Iguazu. (Rio to Iguazu and Iguazu to Buenos Aires are each 2 hours by plane. It's something like 20 bus hours??)

Getting from Puerto Iguazu to Foz do Iguassu by bus is easy, but you will not be able to buy a ticket in advance - these are low-tech local buses that you walk onto and pay a few peso to board.

You'll have a wonderful time. Please feel free to email or post here if you have any more questions about Rio, Iguazu, or Buenos Aires. Definitely take the boat tour under the falls. If you're into big things or engineering things, take a bus to visit Itaipú, the giant hydro dam on the BR-PY border. Nearby, on the PY side, there are also some neat ethnographic and historical museums.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:17:40 -0800

The nice thing about fully-refundable airline tickets it that they're fully refundable.

By: croutonsupafreak

croutonsupafreak — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:52:59 -0800

Just tell them you haven't made your travel arrangements to Buenos Aires yet, but you have tickets to leave from there in two weeks. It worked for me when I entered pre-EU Europe in one country and left from another.

By: occhiblu

occhiblu — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:54:41 -0800

Have you called the Brazilian embassy for your area? It seems like, since they're the ones approving your visa, they'd be the most definitive source for answers.

By: maxpower

maxpower — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:01:32 -0800

I'd buy the fully refundable tickets on the CC. Apply for visa, obtain visa, get CC refunded, go on holiday.

By: iamck

iamck — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:18:10 -0800

In case you´re still watching this - simply buy a refundable one way ticket out of the country from GOL airlines. It´s what I did.

By: deadfather

deadfather — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:31:24 -0800

Just to follow-up, I needn't have worried. A ticket to leave the continent was enough.

I went to the Brazilian consulate in New York with my e-ticket printout--into Rio and out of Buenos Aires. They looked at my printout for two seconds, handed it back, and rubber-stamped my request. I had my visa the next day.