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11-30-07 22:18 #874
Posts: 2278All hat and no horse
When a buddy of mine from Texas used that phrase I loved hearing it so much I asked him to repeat it several times. In the much drier world of accounting, it is form over substance. In Georgia, it is that dog don't hunt.
Rio Joe your research is spotty at best, you write like an ad for Amway, not Hemingway and the only reason your stuff sells at all is because there are too many magazines and web sites starving for content. Any content.
If Sperto or EA were to write a book on Brazil to be published in 2014, I would buy an advance copy today. However I have a hard time reading what you write beyond the hyperbolic titles.
I think I am going to call my friend in Texas right now. I just love to hear him say it. Rio Joe may I conference you in?
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11-30-07 21:45 #873
Posts: 892Visa
Originally Posted by Dcsplicer
I got a 5 year visa in Chicago last year. It only took 3 days. DD
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11-30-07 18:17 #872
Posts: 2DC Consulate
Originally Posted by Benjoe
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11-30-07 09:48 #871
Posts: 112Originally Posted by Canuck9970
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11-30-07 06:45 #870
Posts: 52I use the DC Consulate
Originally Posted by Benjoe
I went for my third Visa within a year, and they keep giving me 90 days. My last time in October, they held off approving the Visa until they got a fax from my employer about the nature of my visit even though I checked the tourism box for my reason for visiting!
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11-30-07 03:34 #869
Posts: 71Originally Posted by Off Road
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11-29-07 23:54 #868
Posts: 595Originally Posted by Benjoe
Chris H
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11-29-07 22:39 #867
Posts: 355Originally Posted by Lorenzo
Applicants not applying in person must also present a proof of residence within the consular jurisdiction for the past 12 months (i.e. utility bill, driver license or voter's registration);
I belive in person they ask for your drivers license. Maybe this is just LA or just something they do not enforce.
In looking at the Houston and San Francisco consluate web sites, they do not ask for proof of residence. Los Angeles will not do any visas by mail, San Francisco will not accecpt by mail but return by mail, Houston will accecpt and return by mail. This just illustrates the frustratiions you can have with dealing with Brazil. They all have their own interpretations.
I have always found it best to work with an agency that knows what it is doing, they can tell you what to expect and what they have been seeing.
I like the local ones that deal just with Brazil, and are typically close to the consulates.
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11-29-07 21:18 #866
Posts: 1243Originally Posted by Off Road
I don't believe for a minute that Brazil wants to eliminate sex tourism, since it is a main source of revenue. But they would like it to be more discreet. I know that the behavior of some of the more loutish mongers offends middle class Brazilians. I have had some Brazilians express outrage when their teenage daughter was approached by drunken gringos and treated as if she were a GDP. I'm sure things like this get back to people in power. I have a hunch that a 90-day visa is a way to make sure that a person who gets in trouble--like, say, arrested or made the subject of a police report--doesn't get another visa. Just my not-so-humble opinion.
L
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11-29-07 20:31 #865
Posts: 795 year visa
I got the 5 year one in Miami.
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11-29-07 19:20 #864
Posts: 355Originally Posted by Benjoe
But it would be nice to know which ones people have had luck with. Los Angeles, a year ago was still doing 5 year.
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11-29-07 14:50 #863
Posts: 36I have a 5 year Visa. I went to Miami in person. I had no problem. My friend sent off for his. He took and wrote a note attached to his paper work. He explained that he will make many trips in the next five years, because there are so many landmarks he wants to see. And he wants to travel the country to become more educated on Brazil and the people and customs. And he wants to learn the language. He was given a 5 year. My other friend who is Asian. He is from the MidWest wrote the same letter was denied. So maybe Miami cuts us a little more slack.
FRW
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11-29-07 06:43 #862
Posts: 152Originally Posted by Chris H
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11-29-07 06:11 #861
Posts: 15926Originally Posted by Thanos
I don't see any reason they would want you not to go to the country, because everybody loses out. The airlines, the taxis, the hotels, the restaurants, and the girls who would otherwise not have a means of support, which would mean more people in poverty. Why would they want less money to come into the country?
Brazil just has a tendency to say things as a front. They make laws but then after make jeitinhos (favors) to go around them. It's just the culture.
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11-29-07 04:39 #860
Posts: 595Visas
My friend that went down with me to Rio a couple of weeks ago got a 90 day Visa and he was pissed. He called Passports Plus, (which is the agency he got it from), and they said they don't give out 5 year Visas anymore, because people were going down to Brazil and staying there.
Chris H