Vitem V Visa -> Tourist Visa

No visas are not separate. If you enter on V and now want to return on Tourist, you will be on the tourist visa, which presently will not be extended over 90 days. (This is under the new travel order and can change)

The days you spent here on your VITEM V should not count against you if you come in on a tourist visa.  Whether you'll be able to extend after 90 days depends on the specific rules for visitors from Australia, with any recent modifications.  According to the most recent guidance I could locate (https://sistemas.mre.gov.br/kitweb/data … 20QGRV.pdf)
you should be able to extend.  It's dated January 2020, though, so doesn't contain any later modifications.

If you're insured with Cigna, they'll issue you a Proof of Cover letter on demand that should be sufficient for your needs.  Give their Customer Service number a call:  they're very pleasant and responsive.  And in Scotland, so be ready for the accent.  Other international carriers probably provide the same service.

Thanks a lot for the feedback regarding the Vitem V & Tourist crossover, good to hear some form of guidance, It seems to be impossible to find the specifics online!

I am with Axa Global (Also based in Scotland haha) and they provide a generic certificate however it doesn't specifically quote my policy number etc.
I will send them through a request for a similar letter and hopefully they can come up with goods.

On another note,
I will essentially be waiting in Brazil for Saudi Arabia to open back up so I can return to work, in the highly likely scenario that this takes longer than 6 months do you guys have any recommendations regarding prolonging my stay?

I have looked into enrolling in a portuguese class and swapping over to the student visa for 12 months however that obviously entails about 15k BRL on classes I don't really need.

Cheers!

Presumably, Axa Global issued you an insurance ID card with your policy number and validity dates, probably on a page by itself in the PDF of your policy documents.   A printout of that should be helpful; trimmed and covered with plastic,  it will even look official. 

As of today no extension of 90 days on a tourist visa.
BR is not the best place for a long layover.
Hefty fines for exceeding days in BR

Hi do you have an article or link to the government website where it says the rules have changed and you cant renew for up to 180 days?
If that is the case I will look into student visas etc.

I have renewed a tourist visa before at the federal police office in Santos Dumont without any issues and the Brazilian embassy in Australia says that normal visa rules apply which on paper allows visa renewal for up to 180 days so I was assuming that would still be in play?

You see rules changed last 17Jun2019 where Aussies, Americans, Japanese and Canadians can enter Brazil as a tourist for 90 days without a visa. Nothing was stated about extension or renewal. For clarification please e-mail:

visa.camberra@itamaraty.gov.br

Here is the site of the Brazilian Embassy in Canberra where the visa change on 17Jun2019 was mentioned:

http://camberra.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/ … mation.xml

robal