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Entry card to Mexico for vacationers
Passengers planning to journey to Mexico reported on Mexican diplomatic missions’ social media to complain in regards to the lack of know-how and to specific concern about the potential of shedding their aircraft ticket after it was introduced that Brazilians would want a visa to enter the nation.
The request was printed within the Mexican authorities’s official gazette final Wednesday (08/03).
The assertion cited “looking for mutually acceptable options to make sure secure, organized and controlled migration, and combating worldwide organized crime teams that revenue from trafficking in migrants and human beings”.
Final week, america reported that 183 Brazilians (out of a complete of 224 folks, together with different nationalities) had been detained whereas trying to illegally enter town of Imperial Seashore, California.
Visa functions should be submitted from August 18th and shall be registered within the joint passport. You should make an appointment on the Mexican embassy or consulate to acquire the allow stamp.
Presently, the Mexican Nationwide Institute of Immigration has an digital visa issuing system that can not work for Brazilians.
This program was launched about 9 months in the past. Earlier than that, Brazilians solely wanted a passport to enter the nation.
A number of difficulties
Many are confused by the modifications. Some say they’ve already been approved by the digital system, however are scheduled to depart after August 18.
On social media, they complain that they don’t seem to be receiving info from Mexican diplomatic missions to make clear whether or not these permits will nonetheless be legitimate.
BBC Information Brasil contacted the Mexican Embassy in Brasilia and the Consulate in São Paulo by telephone and e-mail. There was no reply – the embassy e mail, by the way, got here again.
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After asserting that Mexico would require visas from Brazilians, passengers with scheduled journey are confused by their plans
On the web site, the consulate says it reiterates that “it has no management over the digital authorization system and doesn’t bear any duty for the lack of flight tickets, inns or some other loss”.
Nevertheless, the difficulties for vacationers from Brazil have already taken a number of months.
Nail designer Melissa Jung of Mato Grosso says the Mexican authorities’s digital system has not operated repeatedly to grant entry permits since late Might.
He says Brazilian vacationers have since created a WhatsApp group to trade details about issues.
One of many members of the group, says Melissa, found a “time window” through which the Mexican authorities’s web site was nonetheless working, and developed a fancy system that concerned opening about 60 tabs in an online browser and ready a minute for a change. in your watch to your request to be authorized.
She additionally mentioned that nationalities like Russian and Turkish are accepted on-line, however Brazilians should not.
Melissa created an Instagram profile referred to as @ mexico.umpesadelo to compile experiences on issues Brazilian vacationers face, together with after arriving in Mexico. It has additionally printed profitable makes an attempt to acquire an digital visa with a “time slot” system.
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Nail designer Melissa Jung had issues getting an digital visa to Mexico and created an Instagram profile the place she collects experiences of difficulties from Brazilian vacationers
Different complaints from vacationers submitted to Melissa’s profile relate to conflicting info supplied by varied Mexican diplomatic missions. He says he will get 200 to 300 messages a day
Melissa managed to go to Mexico in July to do her specialization. She states that she intends to return to the nation for a nail artwork contest and is worried a couple of new journey to acquire a visa.
Magda Nassar, president of Abav Nacional, a journey company umbrella group, states that “Mexico is a vacation spot that has gained many guests through the years of investing in Brazil, however we’ve already seen it after the announcement of the renewal of obligatory visas, locations within the Caribbean with out this requirement have been instantly sought as a substitute ”.
“We all know many locations are competing for the Brazilian traveler who has one of many highest common ticket values in comparison with some other customer on the earth. We additionally know that Brazilians keep away from every kind of paperwork as a lot as attainable. this determination is a regression, ”he says
Gervásio Tanabe, govt president of Abracorp, which additionally contains corporations within the sector, says that “any problem hurts journey plans initially”: “In the present day we’ve barely totally different dynamics in journey. impediment”.
BBC Information Brasil has additionally contacted Itamarata to search out out if there shall be any assist for Brazilian vacationers and is ready for a response.
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