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Brazil eVisa: The $80.90 Site That Isn't .gov.br
Brazil’s eVisa costs $80.90, and the only place to legitimately pay it is brazil.vfsevisa.com. Not brazilevisa.com. Not evisabrazil.com.br. Not whatever ranks first when you search “Brazil visa online” this week. Just that one address, run under an exclusive government contract by a private company most travelers have never heard of.
That last part is the wrinkle. Every other eVisa scam post on this site (India, Kenya, South Africa) ends with some version of the same advice: check for the government domain. .gov.in. .go.ke. .gov.za. It’s the one heuristic that works almost everywhere, and it’s genuinely useful right up until it isn’t. Brazil is where it isn’t. The official portal is brazil.vfsevisa.com, operated by VFS Global, a Dubai-headquartered visa outsourcing company, under an exclusive deal with Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No .gov anything. No .br even, technically. vfsevisa.com is VFS Global’s own domain, with “brazil” tacked on as a subdomain. If you were trained by every other country’s eVisa system to distrust anything that isn’t a government address, Brazil is the one that punishes you for the habit.
Quick Facts: Brazil eVisa 2026
Detail Info Official portal brazil.vfsevisa.com, run by VFS Global under contract to Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Total cost $80.90 ($80 consular fee + $0.90 processing fee), non-refundable Who needs it US, Canadian, and Australian citizens (tourism, business, or transit) In effect since April 10, 2025, under Decree No. 11,982 Validity Up to 10 years, multiple entry (US citizens); 5 years for Canadians and Australians Stay limit 90 days per visit, up to 180 days total in any 12-month period Processing time Averages 5 business days; can run up to 10 during peak season Domain to trust brazil.vfsevisa.com; no .gov.br equivalent exists for this process In one sentence: Brazil’s eVisa is $80.90 at brazil.vfsevisa.com, a VFS Global-run portal under exclusive government contract that, unlike most peer countries, doesn’t sit on a .gov domain, so the usual scam-check shortcut doesn’t apply.
What Is Brazil’s eVisa?
Brazil’s eVisa is the electronic travel authorization required for US, Canadian, and Australian citizens visiting for tourism, business, or transit, reinstated April 10, 2025 after roughly six years of visa-free entry for those three nationalities. It’s applied for entirely online, costs $80.90, and is the only legal way for those travelers to enter Brazil without a paper visa processed at a consulate.
There’s no visa-on-arrival option, no exemption for short trips, no way around it. If you’re American, Canadian, or Australian and Rio, the Amazon, or Iguazu Falls is on your list, this is now step one: not an optional upgrade, the actual requirement.
Why “Check for .gov” Doesn’t Work Here
Walk through the domains this site has covered in the past few months and a pattern shows up fast:
| Country | Official eVisa/ETA domain |
|---|---|
| India | indianvisaonline.gov.in |
| Kenya | etakenya.go.ke |
| South Africa | eta.dha.gov.za |
| Sri Lanka | eta.gov.lk |
| Tanzania | visa.immigration.go.tz |
| Indonesia | evisa.imigrasi.go.id |
| Brazil | brazil.vfsevisa.com |
Six countries, six government-only extensions, one obvious tell. Then Brazil, running on a commercial .com domain owned by a private contractor. VFS Global isn’t hiding this. It’s public knowledge, covered in the company’s own press materials about winning the contract through a competitive tender from Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. VFS Global has run visa application services for the Brazilian government since 2017, processing close to 290,000 applications, and the eVisa platform itself launched December 1, 2023, built out in about three weeks once the contract was awarded.
None of that makes brazil.vfsevisa.com sketchy. It makes it legitimate and structurally impossible to verify with the shortcut that works everywhere else. A cloned site can register brazilevisa.com, brazil-evisa.net, or a dozen other near-misses, and none of the usual “look for the government extension” advice catches it, because the real site doesn’t have one either. The only reliable check left is the exact string: brazil.vfsevisa.com. Not close. Exact.
The April 2025 Reinstatement, and the Fight to Undo It
Context helps here, because the requirement itself has had a messy few years. Brazil dropped visa requirements for US, Canadian, and Australian tourists back in 2019 to boost visitor numbers ahead of the pandemic, then spent 2023 and 2024 repeatedly postponing a planned reinstatement, first to October 2023, then April 2024, then October 2024, then finally locking in April 10, 2025 under Decree No. 11,982. The government’s stated logic is reciprocity: the US, Canada, and Australia all require Brazilians to hold visas, so Brazil now requires the same of them. Officials projected the policy would generate roughly R$480 million in consular fees in its first year, which tells you the reinstatement was never purely a paperwork decision.
It’s also not settled. In November 2025, the Foreign Affairs Committee in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted to restore the old visa-free arrangement, and the Senate separately backed an exemption bill of its own. Neither has cleared the full legislative process. By March 2026, momentum had stalled. Speaker Hugo Motta’s allies signaled the bill wouldn’t get a floor vote anytime soon, a shift that tracked with the political fallout after the US imposed a 10% tariff on Brazilian goods. As of this writing, the eVisa requirement remains fully in force. Brazil’s separate “Open Doors 2026” visa-waiver pilot, aimed at boosting inbound tourism, pointedly excludes the US, Canada, and Australia from its list (the three countries this whole debate is actually about).
Translation: don’t book a 2026 Brazil trip on the assumption this requirement might get repealed before you fly. Bills that clear one committee and stall in another are not visa exemptions. Apply as if April 10, 2025 is permanent, because for now, it is.
How Much Does Brazil’s eVisa Cost?
Brazil’s eVisa costs $80.90 total for US, Canadian, and Australian citizens (an $80 consular fee plus a $0.90 processing charge), both non-refundable regardless of whether the application is approved or denied. The fee is identical across all three eligible nationalities and doesn’t change based on trip length, season, or how far in advance you apply.
That flat structure is worth remembering, because it’s exactly what scam sites exploit. A legitimate service fee stacked visibly on top of $80.90 is one thing. Plenty of visa-assistance companies disclose that upfront, the same pattern covered in the breakdown of Indonesia’s e-VOA scam sites. A site quoting some other “official” base number, or bundling in unexplained extras, is a different problem. There’s exactly one correct total for this visa, and it’s $80.90.
How Do You Apply for Brazil’s eVisa?
- Go directly to brazil.vfsevisa.com. Type the address yourself. Don’t click a sponsored search result, a link in an email, or an ad on social media.
- Create an account and select the tourist, business, or transit eVisa category that matches your trip.
- Upload your passport bio page, a recent digital photo, and your travel itinerary, entering every detail exactly as it appears on your passport.
- Pay the $80.90 fee by credit or debit card through the portal’s payment gateway. That’s the full cost: no separate “expedite” tier, no add-on that legitimately raises the price.
- Wait for processing, which averages around 5 business days but can stretch closer to 10 during peak travel months. Apply at least two weeks before departure to build in a buffer.
- Download and print your approved eVisa. Airlines have denied boarding to travelers who couldn’t produce a physical copy, so don’t rely on a phone screenshot alone.
Once approved, the eVisa is valid for up to 10 years with multiple entries for US citizens (5 years for Canadians and Australians), though every individual stay is still capped at 90 days, with a running total of 180 days allowed in any 12-month period.
There’s Also a Bigger Brazil Cost Story in 2026
The eVisa isn’t the only new charge on Brazil’s 2026 travel math. The country is rolling out a dual federal VAT system — CBS and IBS — replacing a patchwork of older service taxes, and analysts expect hotel, car rental, and tour pricing to rise a few percentage points once the new rates work through. Separately, coastal destinations like Angra dos Reis and Ilha Grande have introduced their own local “sustainable tourism” fees, and Rio has floated reviving a per-bed hotel tax ahead of Carnival. None of that is eVisa-specific, but it’s part of the same 2026 shift getting bundled together in coverage of Brazil’s broader visa and tax overhaul. The eVisa fee is the smallest line item in a trip that’s generally getting more expensive to book from the US, Canada, Mexico, and 20-plus other markets this year.
Planning a South America Trip?
If Brazil is one stop on a bigger 2026 itinerary, it’s worth locking in entry paperwork for every country before you build the rest of the trip around it. A scam eVisa charge or a rejected application is a much bigger problem once flights and lodges elsewhere are already booked. If Peru’s on the same list, the inaugural Amazon Marathon in Puerto Maldonado is worth a look for a jungle-adjacent bucket list add-on that isn’t just a beach stop. And if you want the fuller picture on how these scam ecosystems operate across the industry generally, not just in Brazil, the site’s rundown of travel scams worth planning around covers the recurring patterns.
The Bottom Line
Brazil’s eVisa costs $80.90, applies to US, Canadian, and Australian citizens, and has been mandatory since April 10, 2025, with legislative efforts to undo it stalled as of early 2026. The only legitimate place to apply is brazil.vfsevisa.com, run by VFS Global under exclusive contract to Brazil’s government. It is not a .gov.br address, and unlike almost every other country this site has covered, there isn’t a clean domain extension to fall back on if you’re unsure. That makes the exact URL the whole ballgame here. Type it yourself, confirm it character for character, and don’t let a sponsored ad talk you into a different total than $80.90.
Fee, effective date, and validity details sourced from brazil.vfsevisa.com, KPMG’s GMS Flash Alert on Decree No. 11,982, and VFS Global’s press release on its Brazil eVisa contract. 2026 VAT and tourist-tax context from VisaHQ. Information current as of August 2026. Verify current fees and legislative status at brazil.vfsevisa.com before booking.
