VISAS

[Big Daddy]

Was watching the news tonight and I think there was a story about the Brasilian unhappiness over how we treat Brasilians attempting to get a visa to go the US. I do not speak Portuguese well enough to fully understand what the story said, but I think Brasil is considering making it very difficult for American's to get a visa. Something about a court making the determination.

[AaronScottDC]

> I think Brasil is considering making it very

>difficult for American's to get a visa.

 

Whew! I am very glad that I just went to the Brazilian consulate today to file for my visa. I should be able to go and pick it up tomorrow.... Now, I can't wait for my upcoming trip!!!! }( :-)

 

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[song32]

On my second trip to Rio late this year, the immigration officer,seeing I was there previously this summer, in an accusatory and doubtful tone, asked me what the purpose of my trip is and what kind of visa I have. I told him tourist and replied to his question as to how long I was going to stay, I said 10 days. After scrutinizing every page of the passport (which lasted about 5 minutes),he stamped the entry card "good for 20 days". Which wasn't the case when I first visited Rio. I am not sure if they are really making it difficult for americans to enter Brasil or they are just reciprocating the way tourists are treated when they enter this country (just about anywhere from the least developed nations). Which makes me apprehensive that the next time I return, thay they will not let me in (which powers they do have). A scary thought indeed.

[Guest ihpguy]

I just got back from Rio and have a friend in his 70's with a Brazilian girlfriend of many years who is in her 60's. He has homes in both countries. He bought her an airline ticket for the US and went to the US consulate in Cinelandia. Of course. our wonderful governemnt refused her request for a tourist visa. She has no US family, with children and grandchildren in Rio. At her age, are their really many possibilities for her to acquire gainful US employment in the US? At present, she only works for charitable causes in Brazil without compensation. They were told by the US authorities that she could reapply for a tourist visa in six months. This attitude is at the same time that hundreds of thousands of people cross over the border from Mexico every year.

[trilingual]

Just another example of the hateful way the U.S. treats prospective foreign visitors. The stories are endless. And then we wonder why we're so despised abroad. :-(

 

Don't blame the hundreds of thousands crossing over from Mexico (including thousands of non-Mexicans). If the U.S. would issue visas for willing workers who have willing employers (and no U.S. workers who are being displaced) the number of people trying to cross illegally would drop astronomically. Ditto if the U.S. would also make it easier for immigrants to the U.S. to reunite with their families. Those are the two biggest sources of illegal immigrants to the U.S. -- workers and their family members.

 

Keeping the immigration of workers illegal is the same kind of crazed mentality that refuses to legalize drugs. It just creates a never-ending population of criminals, promotes the establishment of a police state, and does absolutely nothing to solve the actual problems (America's insatiable craving for drugs and for workers willing to do jobs Americans won't take.)

[maurice75]

French do not need a Visa for Brazil and vice-versa. Brazil reciprocates the way tourists are treated.

[trilingual]

Brazilians don't need tourist visas to visit the EU (at least the old EU countries before the recent expanion) and citizens of those countries don't need visas to visit Brazil. Some countries that recently joined the EU required visas for Brazilians (for example, the Czech Republic). I don't know if that requirement ended when those countries joined the EU.