Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) announced the revocation of the visa requirement in March 2019, on the eve of his trip to the United States

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BY Folhapress

BRASÍLIA, DF (FOLHAPRESS) – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) has decided to restore the visa requirement for tourists from the United States, Australia, Canada and Japan to enter Brazil from these countries that their citizens will be charged the same way rules determined for Brazilians.

As foreseen by the Folha de S. Paulo Panel, the government was already studying the impact of the measure on tourism, with the possibility of taking up the principle of reciprocity, historically adopted by Itamaraty.

The filing compares the year 2019, in which the visa requirement was lifted, with the previous year and with 2022, when restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic had already been lifted.

In the case of the United States, the increase in the number of tourists from 2018 to 2019 was 12%, from 391,000 to 439,000. In 2022, 355,000 Americans came, below the pre-pandemic level.

In Japan, there was a 4% drop between 2018 and 2019, from 59,000 to 56,000. In 2022, there were 16,800 tourists.

Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) announced the revocation of the visa requirement in March 2019, on the eve of his trip to the United States to meet then-President Donald Trump.

The visa waiver applied to people traveling to Brazil for tourism, business, transit, and arts and sports activities. It also extended to people “in exceptional circumstances of national interest”.

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