In a late-evening bulletin on 24 February, Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs quietly confirmed that travellers holding ordinary passports from China, Hungary, Denmark, France, Ireland, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Saint Lucia* may now enter Brazil without a visa for stays of up to 30 days, renewable to 90 days within a 12-month period.
The move widens Brazil’s post-pandemic drive to attract high-spending long-haul visitors. It is reciprocal in the case of China—which has admitted Brazilians visa-free since June 2025—but unilateral for the six European and Caribbean states, signalling Brasília’s willingness to use visa policy as an economic lever even where reciprocity is lacking.
Tourism bodies estimate that restoring direct air links from Beijing and Shanghai could bring an additional US $650 million a year in spending by Chinese leisure and MICE travellers alone. Airlines are already responding: Azul and Air China have both requested extra charter slots for the July holiday peak, while Accor says enquiries for group room blocks in São Paulo and Foz do Iguaçu have doubled this week.
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Even with the fresh exemptions, travellers from other jurisdictions—or companies coordinating mixed-nationality project teams—may still need entry documents. VisaHQ’s online portal (https://www.visahq.com/brazil/) offers real-time visa checks, step-by-step application support and courier handling, streamlining the process for anyone who still requires a visa or wishes to validate eligibility before booking flights.
Beyond tourism, the waiver simplifies short-term entry for engineers and sales teams arriving to install or service equipment—particularly valuable for Danish wind-energy firms and Hungarian medical-device exporters that frequently rotate staff through Brazil. However, the 30-day cap still requires companies to monitor cumulative days so that technicians do not accidentally trigger payroll-tax liabilities or overstay limits.
Practical tip: mobility managers should update pre-trip assessment tools to remove e-visa prompts for the new nationalities, but leave the alert in place for multi-passport travellers whose other citizenships may still require a visa. As always, passports must be valid for six months beyond arrival and proof of onward travel may still be requested at check-in.
The move widens Brazil’s post-pandemic drive to attract high-spending long-haul visitors. It is reciprocal in the case of China—which has admitted Brazilians visa-free since June 2025—but unilateral for the six European and Caribbean states, signalling Brasília’s willingness to use visa policy as an economic lever even where reciprocity is lacking.
Tourism bodies estimate that restoring direct air links from Beijing and Shanghai could bring an additional US $650 million a year in spending by Chinese leisure and MICE travellers alone. Airlines are already responding: Azul and Air China have both requested extra charter slots for the July holiday peak, while Accor says enquiries for group room blocks in São Paulo and Foz do Iguaçu have doubled this week.
Even with the fresh exemptions, travellers from other jurisdictions—or companies coordinating mixed-nationality project teams—may still need entry documents. VisaHQ’s online portal (https://www.visahq.com/brazil/) offers real-time visa checks, step-by-step application support and courier handling, streamlining the process for anyone who still requires a visa or wishes to validate eligibility before booking flights.
Beyond tourism, the waiver simplifies short-term entry for engineers and sales teams arriving to install or service equipment—particularly valuable for Danish wind-energy firms and Hungarian medical-device exporters that frequently rotate staff through Brazil. However, the 30-day cap still requires companies to monitor cumulative days so that technicians do not accidentally trigger payroll-tax liabilities or overstay limits.
Practical tip: mobility managers should update pre-trip assessment tools to remove e-visa prompts for the new nationalities, but leave the alert in place for multi-passport travellers whose other citizenships may still require a visa. As always, passports must be valid for six months beyond arrival and proof of onward travel may still be requested at check-in.
