Brazil And The Influx Of Foreigners
Brazil is now experiencing a negative net migration rate. More foreigners enter the country compared to the number of Brazilians leaving the country.
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Brazil And The Influx Of Foreigners
Bobby Castro is the online editor at Gringos, where he has published a number of articles about Brazil news for expats and many other topics.
In the past six months alone, Brazil has declared an increase of 52.4 percent intake of foreigners into the country. According to the statistics of the Ministerio de Justica or Ministry of Justice, this is the first instance where the intake of immigrants was higher than the number of Brazilians leaving the country to go abroad.
The numbers had taken into consideration the number of foreigners currently in Brazil either for employment, education or as the dependent of a spouse. The numbers totaled 1.5 million on June 2011 for legal immigrants. The number of illegal immigrants also soared to an estimated 600,000 leading the total number of immigrants at 2.1 million overall.
The largest group of legal immigrants came from Portugal, Bolivia, Paraguay, China and Korea in that order. In sharp contrast, the number of Brazilians leaving the country declined significantly. The same government agency estimates that only two million Brazilians are located overseas compared to four million last 2005.
At the height of the Brazilian Diaspora in the early 1990s, there were nearly five million individuals, many of them young and educated Brazilians seeking to earn their keep to send home to Brazil. Because of the subsequent upsurge in the Brazilian economy because of liberal economic policies, the future of Brazil returned home to earn their keep.
According to Paolo Abrao, the Brazilian Secretary of Justice, the new balance of migration is due to the economic growth of Brazil and at the same time the economic slump of the United States, European Union and Japanese economies. Furthermore, the liberal policies of former president Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva culminating in the immigration amnesty to illegal immigrants in Brazil increased the intake numbers of Brazil.
Thus when entering Brazil, it is required that all persons must have a visa. For a preferred group, visas can be obtained at the port of entry, either as a tourist, employee, student or immigrant visa. Visitors can stay in the country for ninety days at a time that is extendible to another ninety days upon application with the Federal Police.
When an individual visa holder overstays the permitted time frame on the visa granted, then the individual is considered as an illegal immigrant. Individuals caught overstaying would be subject to hefty fines and even deportation. Those that leave on their own accord after overstaying would also be subject to fines at the exiting airport. The fines are pegged for each day of overstay since the date of expiry of the visa.
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