I wonder how many of the U.S. visitors to Brazil have Brazilian origins. In
southern Massachusetts (Boston and Cape Cod areas), there are at least 100,000
people of Brazilian origin (perhaps because a lot of Portuguese fishermen
settled here long ago). The few I've met talk about going home for yearly
visits -- I wonder if they'll have to get fingerprinted, too.
But, hey, we've got some wonderful Brazilian restaurants here now and some good
music, too.
But what about the contention made in the NY Times article that there are Al
Queada cells in the Iguacu Falls area? Is there any basis for that?
<< Subject: Re: Brazil starts fingerprinting and taking photos of US visitors
From: "Bruno Carneiro da Cunha" bcunha@welho.com >>
<< None of these countries require a visa from Brazilian citizens. Mexico is a
bit of an odd horse because it does ask for a "Migration Application", which
seems to be akin to the defunct "visa waiver" programme that the U.S. had
with Argentina and Uruguay until last year. Skimming the net, I could find
basically these countries that do require a visa from Brazilian citizens to
enter them as tourists: U.S., Canada, Czech Republic, India, Egypt, Japan,
Australia, Cuba and Hungary (not sure about Czech and Hungary though, Poland
used to ask visas for Brazilians but now they aligned with Schengen. I'd
expect most of the E.U. wannabes to follow suit.) They add up to 765,915
tourists in Brazil in 2002. From those, 636,460 were U.S. residents. That is
83% of the total. Curious is that the percentage was exactly the same in
2001.
> >I think this number maybe
> >exaggerated. I visited Brazil quote often and I notice at the Brazilian
> >international airport foreigners from all over the world. European and
USA
> >are perhaps the biggest customers. My got feeling is, the tourists from
US
> >maybe like 40 - 45%.
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