The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) has quietly switched its entry system back to a fully digital format for Brazilian citizens, reviving the Sistema de Autorización Electrónica (SAE) that had been suspended since 2022.
Under the new rules, which took effect on 5 February 2026, holders of Brazilian passports can once again complete a short online questionnaire, upload a copy of their main passport page and receive—often within an hour—an approval QR-code that is valid for up to 180 days for tourism, business meetings or airport transit. The change eliminates the need for travellers to appear in person at Mexico’s consulates in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro or Brasília, a requirement that travel agencies say had cut Brazilian arrivals by almost 40 percent over the past two years.
If you’d rather not wrestle with online forms yourself, VisaHQ can take the task off your hands. Through its Brazil-focused portal (https://www.visahq.com/brazil/), the service guides applicants step by step through the SAE questionnaire, checks that passport scans meet Mexico’s specifications, and sends status updates the moment an e-Visa is approved—making life easier for everyone from solo backpackers to corporate travel managers.
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Airlines flying the South-Atlantic corridor—including Aeroméxico, LATAM, GOL and Copa—have begun advising customers that proof of the e-Visa must be shown at check-in. Corporate-travel managers point out that the new system also streamlines short-notice site visits for engineers and sales teams, removing what had become a ten-day bottleneck for physical-sticker processing. Brazil-based multinationals with frequent traffic to Mexican industrial hubs such as Monterrey, Querétaro and Toluca estimate savings of two to three working days per trip once the SAE fully replaces paper visas.
Tourism officials on both sides expect a rapid rebound. The Riviera Maya Hotel Association notes that Brazilian spending in Quintana Roo plunged from US $400 million in 2023 to barely US $240 million in 2025 after the sticker was introduced. Restoring the e-Visa is seen as critical ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, for which Mexico is a co-host. Local airports are already reviewing biometric-gate capacity to avoid peak-season queues.
For mobility and immigration teams, the practical takeaway is simple: advise Brazilian assignees and business travelers to generate the SAE authorization online (currently free of charge) before departure, keep a digital and printed copy of the QR-code and remember that existing exemptions remain—Brazilians holding valid U.S., Canadian, U.K., Japanese or Schengen visas can still enter Mexico visa-free.
Under the new rules, which took effect on 5 February 2026, holders of Brazilian passports can once again complete a short online questionnaire, upload a copy of their main passport page and receive—often within an hour—an approval QR-code that is valid for up to 180 days for tourism, business meetings or airport transit. The change eliminates the need for travellers to appear in person at Mexico’s consulates in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro or Brasília, a requirement that travel agencies say had cut Brazilian arrivals by almost 40 percent over the past two years.
If you’d rather not wrestle with online forms yourself, VisaHQ can take the task off your hands. Through its Brazil-focused portal (https://www.visahq.com/brazil/), the service guides applicants step by step through the SAE questionnaire, checks that passport scans meet Mexico’s specifications, and sends status updates the moment an e-Visa is approved—making life easier for everyone from solo backpackers to corporate travel managers.
Airlines flying the South-Atlantic corridor—including Aeroméxico, LATAM, GOL and Copa—have begun advising customers that proof of the e-Visa must be shown at check-in. Corporate-travel managers point out that the new system also streamlines short-notice site visits for engineers and sales teams, removing what had become a ten-day bottleneck for physical-sticker processing. Brazil-based multinationals with frequent traffic to Mexican industrial hubs such as Monterrey, Querétaro and Toluca estimate savings of two to three working days per trip once the SAE fully replaces paper visas.
Tourism officials on both sides expect a rapid rebound. The Riviera Maya Hotel Association notes that Brazilian spending in Quintana Roo plunged from US $400 million in 2023 to barely US $240 million in 2025 after the sticker was introduced. Restoring the e-Visa is seen as critical ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, for which Mexico is a co-host. Local airports are already reviewing biometric-gate capacity to avoid peak-season queues.
For mobility and immigration teams, the practical takeaway is simple: advise Brazilian assignees and business travelers to generate the SAE authorization online (currently free of charge) before departure, keep a digital and printed copy of the QR-code and remember that existing exemptions remain—Brazilians holding valid U.S., Canadian, U.K., Japanese or Schengen visas can still enter Mexico visa-free.
