1) Tourist Visa ( VITUR ):

• Tourism trip;
• visit to relatives and/or friends;
• scientists, professors or researchers attending cultural, technological or scientific conferences, seminars.
• participation in artistic or amateur sport competitions, whenever no monetary prize or paid admission is involved.

Tourist visa holders are not allowed to engage in any paid activity in Brazil.  

• Scientists, professors, researchers, participants in cultural, technological or scientific missions. (services provided must not be paid for by a corporation or other legal entity based in Brazil, except for wages for services rendered, with the submission of a receipt);
• Scientists, technicians, researchers or volunteers under the umbrella of an international cooperation program;
• Interns and other unpaid trainees, bearers of scholarships receiving professional practice in Brazil;
• Exchange students;
• Technicians receiving training in the operation and maintenance of machinery or equipment produced in Brazil;
• Amateur athletes, under 21 year old, participating in training programs in Brazil;
• Provision of services to a religious or social assistance entity, without employment relationship with a corporation or other legal entity based in Brazil.

Temporary Visa I holders are not allowed to engage in any paid activity in Brazil.

• Travelers with business purposes, except when the trip involves the provision of services of any nature in Brazil (in which case a Vitem V is mandatory). Business visas are issued to business travelers who possess signed import/export contracts or who are traveling to visit companies, make commercial contacts or evaluate investment opportunities;
• Media coverage or filming;
• Flight/ship crew members not holding an international crew card. and
• Adoption of a Brazilian child.

• Paid participation in athletic or performing arts events.

• Pursuing graduate or post-graduate academic studies in Brazil.

• Scientist, professor, technician,or other professionals who come to work in Brazil under a working contract;
• Provision of services to the Brazilian Government based on an international agreement, convention or contract to which Brazil is a party;
• Employment contract with a corporation or other legal entity based in Brazil;
• Technical assistance based on a working contract signed between a Brazilian and a foreign corporation or other legal entity;
• Short-term technical assistance, without a working contract;
• Professional training, without a working contract, immediately after the completion of vocational training or university education;
• Employees of foreign companies admitted to work in Brazil as trainees or interns at a subsidiary or Brazilian branch of the foreign company, provided that they are paid exclusively outside of Brazil by that foreign company;
• Foreign instructors or professors for training in foreign language instruction;
• Crew members of foreign vessels traveling to Brazil to operate in waters under Brazilian jurisdiction, as required under a charter, or services or risk contract entered into with a Brazilian company;
• Crew members of foreign fishing vessels leased by Brazilian companies;
• Crew members or other professionals who perform paid activities aboard cruise vessels along the Brazilian coast, in the Amazon River basin, or in other inland waters. 

• Media correspondents

• Travel for religious/missionary purposes.

• Family reunion;
• Transfer of residence following retirement;
• Personal investment in Brazil;
• Intra-company transferees to work as managers, directors, or executives;
• Job offer at a Brazilian research, scientific, or academic organization based on field of expertise;
• Manager or director of a religious or social assistance organization.

RNE - Registro Nacional de Estrangeiros : The issue or renewal of the RNE card (Registro Nacional de Estrangeiros, the Brazilian ID issued to non-Brazilian citizens who hold a Brazilian Permanent Visa) is not a service provided by the Consulate. It can only be obtained or renewed at the Federal Police in Brazil ( http://www.dpf.gov.br ).

• Diplomatic or Official mission.