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Originally Posted by JMBroad
Well, a colleague of mine lost his documentation and therefore should have paid a fine when he left however he smiled and winked and apologised profusely at the airport and they said "oh ok" and let him out without paying a fine. He's on his way back in a week or two so hopefully they let him in again.
Seems the tourism board is up in arms at this however they aren't making any headway in making things easier. Basically because of the "what you do to us we do to you" mentality. Their argument is that Spain refuses entry to over 10 Brazilian citizens per week (or was it per day!?), so they decided to crack down on Spaniards entering Brazil. Seems now they are expanding that to other countries.
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It must be 10 a day as approximately 480 were refused entry in February. Unfortunately for Brazil they have a reputation of people entering foreign countries on tourist visas and never leaving. Brazil has a history of deploying "tit for tat" tactics even though, normally, the other countries have good justifications for what they are doing....and brazil's kneejerk responses usually appears very childish.