Hi,
My wife and I are currently travelling in South America and due to arrive in Brazil in two weeks. We both have our visas which we obtained in Australia before leaving.
Our issue is that we accidentally started our Brazil Visa ticking over without realising when we visited Iguazu Falls back in August, we were originally just visiting the Argentinian side of Iguazu Falls and stupidly decided at last minute to go checkout the Brazil side because we could not check in to our hostel until the afternoon.
We already had all our flights in and out of Brazil booked (which are non refundable) before we left which was part of the Visa requirement so we could not change our dates of visiting Brazil. We are now about to arrive in Brazil and have one week with a valid visa.
We arrive on Sunday the 29 October and our visa will run out on Sunday 5 November (90 days).
Our flight out of Brazil is on the 2 December which is non changable/refundable.
My questions are:
- How likely are we to be granted a 90 day extension?
- Is there enough time to process the extension?
- Are the Federal Police Offices open on weekends, I understand there is one at Rio De Janeiro airport and we arrive at 6am on a Sunday
- In this situation should we contemplate just overstaying i.e. what if we apply and get rejected then we would have to pay for another flight out of the country earlier and lose our later flight anyway?
Regards,
Pete