Brazil and intentional proof
August 14, 2006 7:51 PM Subscribe
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?
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?
The nice thing about fully-refundable airline tickets it that they're fully refundable.
posted by smackfu at 8:17 PM on August 14, 2006 [2 favorites]
posted by smackfu at 8:17 PM on August 14, 2006 [2 favorites]
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.
posted by croutonsupafreak at 9:52 PM on August 14, 2006
posted by croutonsupafreak at 9:52 PM on August 14, 2006
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.
posted by occhiblu at 9:54 PM on August 14, 2006
posted by occhiblu at 9:54 PM on August 14, 2006
I'd buy the fully refundable tickets on the CC. Apply for visa, obtain visa, get CC refunded, go on holiday.
posted by maxpower at 12:01 AM on August 15, 2006
posted by maxpower at 12:01 AM on August 15, 2006
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.
posted by iamck at 2:18 PM on September 5, 2006
posted by iamck at 2:18 PM on September 5, 2006
Response by poster: 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.
posted by deadfather at 7:31 PM on October 1, 2006
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.
posted by deadfather at 7:31 PM on October 1, 2006
This thread is closed to new comments.
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.
posted by whatzit at 8:08 PM on August 14, 2006