Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began a four-day state visit to India on Saturday, arriving with the largest overseas mission of his current term—over 120 executives from aviation, mining, IT services and green-hydrogen companies, plus five cabinet ministers. The government hopes the trip will unlock new corridors for skilled-worker mobility and technology transfers while deepening South-South cooperation in critical supply chains.
The headline announcement came even before the bilateral summit: Embraer signed a memorandum with India’s Tata Advanced Systems to assemble E-Jets in Nagpur, creating what the partners call a “two-way mobility bridge” that will rotate Brazilian engineers and Indian technicians under fast-track work-visa quotas. Brazil’s health ministry, travelling with Lula, separately confirmed that it will import Indian-made AI components for the federal Tele-Saúde network and second Brazilian biomedical researchers to Bengaluru for up-to-18-month assignments.
For global-mobility teams, the visit signals a friendlier visa landscape on both sides. Diplomatic sources say talks include expanding the 2016 bilateral working-holiday scheme—which currently grants 1,500 annual visas—to a 5,000-slot “Young Innovators” category that would allow graduates up to age 35 to live and work in the other country for two years. India is also expected to shorten business-e-visa processing for Brazilians from three days to 24 hours by moving applications onto its newer ICEGATE platform.
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In that context, VisaHQ can be a useful ally for HR departments and travelling professionals. Its Brazil portal (https://www.visahq.com/brazil/) collates the up-to-date requirements for India-bound e-visas and reciprocally lists Indian options for Brazilians, offering step-by-step application support that cuts turnaround time and reduces rejection risk.
The scale of the delegation underscores the political priority Lula attaches to diversifying trade partners amid lingering uncertainty around U.S. tariff policy. With stops planned at Hyderabad’s genome valley and the new semiconductor corridor outside Delhi, officials say the president wants to entice Indian firms to deploy specialists to Brazil under the Tech Visa regime, introduced quietly in December 2025 but not yet publicised.
Analysts note that easier mobility is pivotal to the Embraer deal: initial assembly kits will be shipped from São José dos Campos, but phase two envisions up to 50 % localisation, which will require hundreds of Brazilian aeronautical engineers to spend stints in India training local staff. Multinationals headquartered in Brazil are therefore monitoring whether the countries will also sign a social-security totalisation agreement to avoid double contributions for assignees—talks that sources say are “advanced but not yet closed.”
The headline announcement came even before the bilateral summit: Embraer signed a memorandum with India’s Tata Advanced Systems to assemble E-Jets in Nagpur, creating what the partners call a “two-way mobility bridge” that will rotate Brazilian engineers and Indian technicians under fast-track work-visa quotas. Brazil’s health ministry, travelling with Lula, separately confirmed that it will import Indian-made AI components for the federal Tele-Saúde network and second Brazilian biomedical researchers to Bengaluru for up-to-18-month assignments.
For global-mobility teams, the visit signals a friendlier visa landscape on both sides. Diplomatic sources say talks include expanding the 2016 bilateral working-holiday scheme—which currently grants 1,500 annual visas—to a 5,000-slot “Young Innovators” category that would allow graduates up to age 35 to live and work in the other country for two years. India is also expected to shorten business-e-visa processing for Brazilians from three days to 24 hours by moving applications onto its newer ICEGATE platform.
In that context, VisaHQ can be a useful ally for HR departments and travelling professionals. Its Brazil portal (https://www.visahq.com/brazil/) collates the up-to-date requirements for India-bound e-visas and reciprocally lists Indian options for Brazilians, offering step-by-step application support that cuts turnaround time and reduces rejection risk.
The scale of the delegation underscores the political priority Lula attaches to diversifying trade partners amid lingering uncertainty around U.S. tariff policy. With stops planned at Hyderabad’s genome valley and the new semiconductor corridor outside Delhi, officials say the president wants to entice Indian firms to deploy specialists to Brazil under the Tech Visa regime, introduced quietly in December 2025 but not yet publicised.
Analysts note that easier mobility is pivotal to the Embraer deal: initial assembly kits will be shipped from São José dos Campos, but phase two envisions up to 50 % localisation, which will require hundreds of Brazilian aeronautical engineers to spend stints in India training local staff. Multinationals headquartered in Brazil are therefore monitoring whether the countries will also sign a social-security totalisation agreement to avoid double contributions for assignees—talks that sources say are “advanced but not yet closed.”
