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Stellar
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Posted: 20 January 2012 at 17:28

(they just get the stamp and are allowed in, no questions asked) ------ this is exactly what they did to me :)

but as they suggested, better to get a return ticket (refundable) just to be sure.

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Posted: 13 February 2012 at 08:12

Do you want to ruin your trip for the cost of a return ticket ?

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Posted: 13 February 2012 at 08:31

Originally posted by GreatBallsoFire

Originally posted by jlucas87

I'm moving to Brazil with my partner (who is Brazilian) and we will be arriving in Sao Paulo on the 1st July.

Initially, I will be going on a tourist visa (with the intention to apply for a permanent visa based on a stable union in Brazil) but I have heard and read that I can be refused entry into Brazil because I don't have a return ticket.

We are going to buy a bus ticket to Paraguay to try and circumvent this problem but I was wondering if any of you might know whether this is enough.

I went to the Brazilian Consulate in London and they told me I should show the proof of the bus ticket to Paraguay and also show bank statements of how much money I have in my account.

I'm hoping that this will be enough and they won't refuse me entry. It's just that I have read some very conflicting stories about this kinda thing. Some people say they are not even asked to show any kind of document (they just get the stamp and are allowed in, no questions asked), whereas other people have said that they were refused.

Any advice/help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

(By the way, I am English so I know I automatically get a 3 month tourist visa, unlike Americans who, I assume, would have more of an issue with regards to only having a one-way ticket).

Buy a few drinks on the flight and be completely calm. Never, not once in over thirty trips to Brazil have I been asked about a return trip. They, the PF asume you have it. So as you say have the bank statemenments and a bus ticket as a saftey measure...

First of all, what is the price difference between the single and return ticket ? Is there any at all ? Check out twice, because sometimes the single ticket could cost even more than the return.
Anyway, I doubt that anyone will ever check whether you have a return ticket.
Don't expect any cavity search upon your arrival, I think the only think you get upon your arrival is a big smile from the beautiful lady working at the desk at Guarulhos

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Posted: 13 February 2012 at 10:19

It has been my experience that a two ticket and a one way ticket cost the same. I have learned to buy a two way ticket, you can always make the return ticket for 3 months and then contact the airline and delay the date you pick to return. You have up to a year to use it. So it may come in handy. If you don't use it, I don't think you are out anymore money than what the one way ticket would have cost you. So unless you get a special deal for a one way ticket, usually the two way ticket is the same price or very close to it.

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Posted: 13 February 2012 at 10:46

Originally posted by CJBaker

It has been my experience that a two ticket and a one way ticket cost the same. I have learned to buy a two way ticket, you can always make the return ticket for 3 months and then contact the airline and delay the date you pick to return. You have up to a year to use it. So it may come in handy. If you don't use it, I don't think you are out anymore money than what the one way ticket would have cost you. So unless you get a special deal for a one way ticket, usually the two way ticket is the same price or very close to it.

It you buy directly from TAM, you can pick one way (maybe half or sometimes even third of the R/T price, depends what classes, they have left). This may depend where you want to go? And from where?

I've used that when had no idea of return date to/from US and last time to Brazil, when I moved here.

Going to US they can ask a question if you have only one way ticket, so for any non-US legal resident status owners (not citizen, CC holder or resident alien) that's a NO-NO.

The only place I have ever had a return ticket question, was USA. Even I was with a valid work Visa, just returning from a business trip to MX.

The customs guy asked, do I have a return outbound ticket

. I said no as I just did a round trip to MX and I'm now returning to US, where I work and live, duh? Never a dull moment at the "US Customs and Border Protection Agency" counter.

Edited by tamte - 13 February 2012 at 11:02

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Posted: 01 March 2012 at 21:23

This is my third and hopefully permanent trip to Brasil, so my passport already has a good bit of ink in it...so take this account with a grain of salt--

I purchased a one way ticket for something ridiculous...like 30k miles or so. Walked through customs, they didn't say a word to me. I did, however, have a 'letter of intent' if you will from a friend of mine in Brasil. The letter had all of her relevant contact/personal information and said that we would head to Patagonia in a few weeks. This was just in case someone did say something.

But, like I said...they didn't glance twice at my passport.

If you're worried remember to relax. If the person behind the glass is a girl it's not necessarily a bad idea to play the gringo card. Desculpa, linda, eu nao falo Portuguese.

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Posted: 11 March 2012 at 19:46

Originally posted by Gringo.Floripa

I had some Canadian guests visit this past summer, and they told me about needing to supply bank account info in order to obtain their tourist visa. I was incredulous.

When I got my visa from the consulate in Santiago last year, I had to provide a bank statement to prove financial solvency.

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Posted: 23 March 2012 at 07:19

Hi, I hope you might be able to provide me with some clarity. I'm Polish and have travelled around South America last year (Venezuela & Colombia) until I got to Brazil, fell in love and stayed there for five months (on the visa extension). Now I'm back in Poland and in a month's time I'm going back to Brazil to stay there indefinitely. I came back home with a return ticket so I only have the one way ticket to Brazil left, and I only have about 30 days left out of the 180 days allowance. Before my return to Poland, me and my Brazilian boyfriend signed a Uniao Estavel (Stable Union) document at a "cartorio" which I was going to use to apply for my permanent visa (although now I know it is far more complicated than that and it's likely I won't be able to obtain the visa straight away). How can I make sure I will be let back into Brazil? I'll be flying TAP from Warsaw. Should I show my Uniao Estavel document or pretend I've come back to continue my trip around South America? When I was getting my visa extension the guy asked for ticket out of the country but I said I was going overland to Argentina and there was no problem.
But given that I only have 30 days left might look suspicious... :(

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Posted: 23 March 2012 at 14:43

It's really about intentions, and like others have said, bus tickets don't show much intention. The bus ticket shows you'll leave, but it doesn't show that paraguay will accpet you, especially if you don't have a ticket out of paraguay! So you'll have the ability to leave Brazil but not the ability to guarantee you'll be allowed through to your next "stop". Basically your intention is to fulfil the requirement of having a way out of Brazil, but the intention isn't to leave.

I like the idea of a round trip as well, if you DO need to return (illness, forgotten document! or some other reason, having a flight ticket 3 months out might be useful. A change fee on that would be far better than having to buy a last minute ticket.

There is just so much to do in Brazil, and so little time to do it all! Planning my next Brazil Vacation and the countdown has started!

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Posted: 23 March 2012 at 14:50

exactly, unless you can show your way out of brazil, even to a neighbouring country, you'll be with worry... buy a refundable return ticket and call it a day!

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