Brazilian Experience has been organizing cultural Exchange experiences for foreigners since 2009.

The legal basis of the service provided by our agency used to be the Normative Resolution 111th of June 2014. Recently there was a change in the Brazilian legislation and the new Brazilian Immigration Law. The Law N. 13.445, which became effective on May of 2017, was interpreted by the Interministerial Ordinance N. 7 of 2018, regulating the granting of Temporary Visas.

According to article 12 of the new law, from now on students will be able to enter Brazil with the so-called Temporary Visa. In addition to that, article 14, paragraph 4, of the same law makes it clear that this possibility also applies to internship programs: “An immigrant who intends to come to Brazil to attend a regular course or to carry out an internship or exchange of study or research”, including the services provided by the Brazilian Experience.

The new legislation brought a lot of news, and especially, facilities for internship programs here in Brazil. An example of this is the possibility that in cases of internships shorter than 90 days, there is no longer a need for the Federal Police’s residency registration (RNE).

In addition to that, in case of need for visa renewal, such application may be held, without the visa recipient having to leave the national territory. The renewal can be granted for an extra ninety days, which adds up to a period of six months. In these cases, the RNE become necessary.

Brazilian Experience has a permanent partnership with the School of Engineering, from the Texas Tech University. The institution sends annually a group of students of the Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Production Engineering, Petroleum and also Computer Science courses, which are supported by the Brazilian Experience, and go through internship experiences with our various partners.

In these cases, there is another great news that will further facilitate the exchange of cultural experiences and knowledge targeted by Brazilian Experience. For cases involving exchange students from Australia, Canada, the United States and Japan, it is now available the “VIVIS – Visiting Visa”.

This type of electronic visa, or e-visa, allows holders of passports belonging to the countries of origin mentioned above, to enter Brazil using only their Civil Identity Card (Passport), thus dispensing the other visa requirements, for up to 90 days.

Applicants from these countries may apply for the visitor visa and obtain it remotely, through the VFS Global website (provider of the service), without having to travel to the corresponding consular post, since there is no longer a need for labeling.