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AP | | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz, Rio De Janeiro
Brazil postponed for the second time the reintroduction of necessities to acquire vacationer visas for residents of the US, Australia and Canada, officers stated.
Former president Jair Bolsonaro scrapped the visa necessities in 2019 to help the tourism business, however the three nations continued to demand visas from Brazilians. The South American nation requires visas from vacationers primarily based on rules of historic reciprocity and equal remedy.
The federal government initially postponed the visa implementation on Oct. 1. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in September then set Jan. 10 as the brand new deadline. On Thursday evening, Brazil’s presidency stated it will be postponed but once more until April 10.
The assertion stated the federal government was nonetheless finalising the brand new visa system and wished to keep away from implementing it near the excessive season, primarily in the course of the New 12 months’s celebrations and Carnival festivities in February, which magnetize tens of hundreds of vacationers.
Lula reinstated the visa necessities after he took workplace one yr in the past. The nations in query initially included Japan however the east Asian nation struck a take care of Brazilian authorities in September to ease journey provisions between the 2, preserving its residents off of the brand new record.
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