Brazilian Consulate In Houston Currently CLOSED

[TexasCPA]

This thread/message is intended primarily for US citizens.

 

As you know, US citizens are required to obtain a Visa for entry into Brazil. There are jurisdictional filing requirements for your Visa depending on where you live (the State in which you reside). US citizens residing in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas are required to file with the Houston, TX Brazilian consulate.

 

Everyone who lives in the States noted above should note that the Brazilian consulate in Houston is still CLOSED due to damage caused by Hurricane Ike. Their website (http://www.brazilhouston.org/) is instructing everyone to send their Visa applications to other consulate offices (here is the link to those locations - http://www.brazilhouston.org/ingles/jurisdic.htm).

 

If your Visa application was already on file in the Houston consulate, I unfortunately don't know what to tell you. You can try to call the Houston consulate and see if anyone answers, try calling the other Brazilian consulates, etc. Luckily for Carol and I, we had used ZVS to add additional pages to our passports out of their SFO office and they held on to our revised passports seeing that Ike was coming. They are now processing our Visa applications through the SFO Brazilian consulate.

 

Hope this helps someone...

[spindrift]

Thanks TexasCPA. We are in Sugar Land, Texas and we are having Oceania get our Brazilian visas. We leave November 19th for Lisbon for a transatlantic to Rio and then staying aboard from Rio to Buenos Aires. We decided to let Oceania get our visas, and I'm glad we did as they will have other options rather than Houston.

 

We didn't receive our documents to complete until a few days ago because of "Ike."

 

We don't have much luck with the Brazilian offices here anyway, thus our choice to have our cruise line get the visas. We have gotten the others here, however, without problems.

 

It will be interesting to see when it opens. We were without power for 11 days ourselves.