For Brazil e-Visa crowd

[+ SirBillybob]

Recently back from several weeks in Brazil, and I thought I’d share a small field report for anyone dealing with the e-Visa.

Arriving in São Paulo, about to embark on domestic travel amounting to a combined total tiring 20 hours overall, I came prepared. Passport history, entry/exit dates, and a carefully tallied count of days used since my last “migratory year” reset in March 2025.

In my mind, there were three possible outcomes:

Scenario 1 (textbook version): The agent applies the rules as written. My migratory year reset in March 2025 would mean I still had some unused days from that cycle. Only the tail end of this trip (that commenced February 2026 onward) would start drawing from a new allowance resetting in March 2026. In other words, no lost days, just orderly bookkeeping.

Scenario 2 (surprisingly generous version): The agent anchors everything to the formal e-Visa acquisition requirement, post–April 9, 2025, my first entry on that basis mid-May. That would actually give me more carryover days and push the next reset to mid-May 2026, well beyond this trip. Pleasant, but unlikely.

Scenario 3 (“keep queue moving” version): A quick glance at the visa, a stamp, and a handwritten “90 days”, as if prior travel history were more of a philosophical concept than an operational one. The result a few quietly vanished weeks from the theoretical allowance.

As you’ve probably guessed, Scenario 3 won.

I chose not to argue the finer points of migratory accounting at that moment. Fortunately, my upcoming travel plans happen to fall just within the stamped allowance, so no immediate harm done. Otherwise, I suspect I might have needed to become intimately familiar with some type of appeals process.

So, for anyone relying on a precise interpretation of the e-Visa rules, particularly if a frequent visitor, best to treat the theoretical framework as … aspirational(?)

USD$80.90 caveat emptor. 

Edited 1 hour ago by SirBillybob