When planning your first domestic trip, you may have a series of questions, such as whether you need a passport to travel within Brazil. After all, this document is usually required by several countries for tourists to enter and leave
. With that in mind, Costa do Sauípe prepared a complete guide with all the questions about this document: find out if a passport is needed to travel within Brazil, what are the other documents required for boarding, and other information. Check it out!
Do you need a passport to travel within Brazil?
After all, to ride a plane within Brazil, do you need a passport? Before answering this question, it is important to explain what this document is and what its functionality is: a passport is an international identification document, used to verify the legality of a passenger's visit to other countries.
Therefore, passengers are not required to have this document for domestic trips, that is, they do not need a passport to travel within Brazil. On the other hand, although it is not a requirement for shipments within the country, a passport can be used as one of the identification documents.
Foreigners traveling domestically
Do foreigners need a passport to travel within Brazil? In our country, the domestic travel process is much more bureaucratic than for international flights, both for Brazilians and tourists
. For boarding, foreigners must present personal identification documents, which may be a valid international passport, consular or diplomatic identity, the RNE (National Register of Foreigners) or the CIE (Foreign Identity Card).
Documents required to travel within Brazil Do
youneed a passport to travel within Brazil? No! However, other documents are requested by the airlines upon boarding. Check it out!
Passengers
over 18 years
of age who wish to travel within Brazil must present a photo identification document upon check-in.This document can be the ID, the CNH (National Driver's License) physical or digital, the work license, the valid international passport, or the DNI (National Identification Document).
Passengers with a registered name
Passengers with a social name must also present a photo document, such as those mentioned above. However, the name of the reservation must be the same as the one on the identification document. If both were divergent, passengers may have problems boarding.
Under 18 years of
age In thecase of unaccompanied minors under 18, who are 16 to 17 years and 11 months old, the presentation of a photo identification document, such as a work permit, ID or valid passport, is also valid.
When traveling with children, it is important to present a birth certificate. If a child passenger is traveling without one or both of their guardians, the travel authorization signed by the child's parents must be presented.
Domestic travel with pets If you are thinking of
taking a domestic trip with your pet, know that it is possible to board it both on the plane and on the bus. However, you must follow some rules.
Air travel Before
traveling with your pet, it is important to provide a veterinary report attesting to the animal's good health conditions. The validity of this report is 10 calendar days from the date of issue. In addition, it is necessary to update the pet's vaccination card, which must be protected 30 days a year before the trip.
Bus travel
Dogs and cats can be easily transported by bus. To do this, they must have the same documentation necessary to board the plane, as well as a suitable transport box.
How to get a passport
As we have seen, you don't need a passport to travel within Brazil. However, this is essential for international flights. The first step to request the document is to gather the necessary papers, requested by the federal police, including:
- Photo identification document (ID, work card or CNH);
- social security number, if it is not included in the identification document; Marriage certificate, in the case
- of changes in
Then, simply fill out the request form, available on the federal police website. Then, pay the passport issuance fee, scheduling the best day and time for in-person service at the IRS
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