Brazil and India deepened their fast-growing strategic partnership this week by formally extending the validity of each other’s visitor and business visas from five to ten years. The change appears in Brazil’s Diário Oficial da União and mirrors a reform adopted by New Delhi for Brazilians last year.
Under the new rules, citizens of both countries will be able to obtain multiple-entry VIVIS (visitor) or VITEM II (business) visas valid for a full decade. Travellers may still stay only 90 days per trip for tourism or 180 days for business, but the longer validity removes the need for frequent renewals that added cost and administrative friction for executives, investors and tour operators.
The timing is significant. Bilateral trade surpassed US$15 billion in 2025 and Indian investment—from IT services to pharmaceuticals—is expanding in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and the Northeast. Conversely, Brazilian energy and agribusiness firms are looking at India’s vast consumer market. Mobility specialists say a ten-year visa will make commuter assignments and repeated prospecting trips far easier to plan, and may encourage companies to use Brazil as a Latin-American base for Indian managers.
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If companies or individual travellers prefer to outsource the paperwork, VisaHQ’s dedicated Brazil portal (https://www.visahq.com/brazil/) can walk applicants through the new ten-year VIVIS and VITEM II requirements, pre-check documentation and even coordinate group submissions for global-mobility teams—streamlining a process that could otherwise slow down urgent trips.
Practical implications for employers:
• HR teams should update global-mobility databases to reflect the new validity so assignees avoid unnecessary renewals.
• Existing five-year visas remain valid until expiry; new ten-year documents will be issued once the agreement enters into force—expected 30 days after Brazil’s diplomatic note of acceptance.
• Passport validity and other entry conditions (return ticket, proof of funds, International Certificate of Vaccination if applicable) remain unchanged.
For travel-management companies, the message is clear: longer-term visas reduce lead-time risk but airlines and hotels may see a slight demand uptick as frequent-traveller friction falls. Over the medium term, looser mobility should reinforce Brazil’s position as India’s main gateway in South America.
Under the new rules, citizens of both countries will be able to obtain multiple-entry VIVIS (visitor) or VITEM II (business) visas valid for a full decade. Travellers may still stay only 90 days per trip for tourism or 180 days for business, but the longer validity removes the need for frequent renewals that added cost and administrative friction for executives, investors and tour operators.
The timing is significant. Bilateral trade surpassed US$15 billion in 2025 and Indian investment—from IT services to pharmaceuticals—is expanding in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and the Northeast. Conversely, Brazilian energy and agribusiness firms are looking at India’s vast consumer market. Mobility specialists say a ten-year visa will make commuter assignments and repeated prospecting trips far easier to plan, and may encourage companies to use Brazil as a Latin-American base for Indian managers.
If companies or individual travellers prefer to outsource the paperwork, VisaHQ’s dedicated Brazil portal (https://www.visahq.com/brazil/) can walk applicants through the new ten-year VIVIS and VITEM II requirements, pre-check documentation and even coordinate group submissions for global-mobility teams—streamlining a process that could otherwise slow down urgent trips.
Practical implications for employers:
• HR teams should update global-mobility databases to reflect the new validity so assignees avoid unnecessary renewals.
• Existing five-year visas remain valid until expiry; new ten-year documents will be issued once the agreement enters into force—expected 30 days after Brazil’s diplomatic note of acceptance.
• Passport validity and other entry conditions (return ticket, proof of funds, International Certificate of Vaccination if applicable) remain unchanged.
For travel-management companies, the message is clear: longer-term visas reduce lead-time risk but airlines and hotels may see a slight demand uptick as frequent-traveller friction falls. Over the medium term, looser mobility should reinforce Brazil’s position as India’s main gateway in South America.
