The US tourists, Canadians, Australians and Japanese will no longer need to pay for view to travel to Brazil. The Senate approved on Wednesday (19) a project of Legislative Decree (PDL) that suspends a decree of the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) that would, from April this year, these citizens-except Japan-a Pay US $ 80.90 (about R $ 460) hair seen.
According to the Senate Agency, the sustainment bill was presented by Senator Carlos Portinho (PL-RJ), reported by Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) and now goes to the House of Representatives.
For Portinho, the dismissal for the documents of these four countries corrected a serious defect of the National Policy for the Grant of Visas.
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A Lula government decree imposed, from January 2024, the Visa requirement For citizens of Canada, the United States and Australia, based on the principle of reciprocity, but would start charging from April this year. For Japan, which allowed Brazilians exemption to visit the country, the charge would no longer be imposed on the same principle.
In defense of the approved bill, the senator comments that the visa requirement made Brazil stop receiving currency to foster the sectors of the economy directly involved with tourist activity, such as food, lodging and transportation.
According to Flávio Bolsonaro, the value of Visa issuance rate It is a revenue incorporated into the Itamaraty budget, the amount is not passed on to the National Treasury, that is, it is a consular revenue that does not enter the union’s general budget, remaining under arbitrariness of the agency.
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On the other hand, Government leaders in Congress, Senator Randolfe Rodrigues (PT-AP), and Senate, Jaques Wagner (PT-BA), recorded votes against the bill. In Randolfe’s view, the removal of the visa requirement signals a “complete submission to external interests.”
In turn, Jaques Wagner said he did not want to polemize, but said that Japan has already removed the visa requirement for Brazilians, which allowed the government to implement reciprocity in this case. In Wagner’s view, the price of $ 87 (approximately $ 490) for 10 years for a visa would not harm tourism, since those who make an international trip would be able to pay this amount.
Senator Fabiano Contarato (PT-ES) said that the Brazilian goes through a humiliating process to get a view to the United States and regretted what he called the “mutt complex.”
