# Brazil passport to French Guiana: Visa-free Current access classification: **Visa-free** — No visa required before travel. Access data checked October 8, 2026. Evidence status: **official evidence collected**. This page concerns ordinary short visits unless an official source states otherwise. Authorities apply the current rule, and individual circumstances can change the applicable treatment. ## Allowed stay - **Up to 30 days in any 180-day period** (machine-readable maximum: 30 days) - Article 1's visitor-stay limit is distinct from the six-month duration of the temporary policy and from passport validity. - The Act and the prefecture's opening paragraph say not exceeding 30 days. Later shorthand on the prefecture page says less than 30; the explicit statutory inclusive limit controls. Stay limits describe the cited visitor rule, not guaranteed admission or extensions. The source-faithful label controls if it differs from the normalized number. ## Evidence timeline - **July 31, 2026 – January 31, 2027 — Brazilian ordinary passports: temporary French Guiana visitor waiver** (Visa-free) A July 2026 autonomous order grants Brazilian ordinary-passport holders visa-free French Guiana short visits for up to 30 days in any 180-day period. The prefecture identifies the six-month trial as running from 31 July 2026 until 31 January 2027, subject to ordinary admission requirements and excluding commercial activity. - Allowed stay: **Up to 30 days in any 180-day period** - Article 1's visitor-stay limit is distinct from the six-month duration of the temporary policy and from passport validity. - The Act and the prefecture's opening paragraph say not exceeding 30 days. Later shorthand on the prefecture page says less than 30; the explicit statutory inclusive limit controls. - Scope is Brazilian ordinary passports for non-commercial short visitor travel to French Guiana only. It is not permission to work, reside, study or conduct commercial activity, and does not establish entry to another French territory. - Article 2 literally provides six months from 31 July 2026. The prefecture expressly states until 31 January 2027; that named endpoint supplies the inclusive effectiveTo, not a conversion of months into days. Renewal is possible but not established or assumed. - The initial order's notice and operative Article 2 name 31 July 2026, while the consolidated site's article-version metadata starts on 2 August 2026 after JORF publication on 1 August. The candidate preserves the expressly stated operational start; this metadata distinction is not concealed. - The prefecture requires a passport valid at least three months after the intended return to Brazil, issued less than ten years ago and containing at least two blank pages. It also requires medical-insurance evidence covering the whole stay for at least EUR 30,000, financial guarantees according to accommodation, and yellow-fever vaccination evidence. - Land entrants from Brazil and river arrivals at Saint-Georges must report to the border-police checkpoint at the international bridge. The waiver does not guarantee admission or remove border checks. - The new ordinary-passport waiver does not impose a biometric-passport, Amapá-residence, organised-tour, frontier-card or third-country-visa prerequisite. The old Annex II's narrower exceptions are not conditions of this temporary general visitor waiver. - For historical reconciliation, Annex II separately describes registered-agency trips shorter than fifteen days, specified air stopovers no longer than three days with onward tickets, a local 72-hour frontier-card route for eligible Oiapoque residents, and emergency-team missions. These special routes do not justify a permanent nationality-wide exemption or an automatic post-trial prior-visa conclusion. - France-Visas separately describes qualifying residence-permit and long-stay-visa exemptions; a generic Schengen short-stay visa is not itself permission to enter an overseas territory. Those document-based routes are not prerequisites for this Brazilian trial waiver. Recheck the operative regime before the trial ends; no successor or post-expiry status is asserted. Official sources: - [Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 31 July 2026: Brazilian ordinary-passport exemption for French Guiana](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000054594286) - [Prefect of French Guiana, French State services in French Guiana: French Guiana prefecture: Brazilian short-visit exemption and entry conditions](https://www.guyane.gouv.fr/Actions-de-l-Etat/Cooperation/Cooperation-transfrontaliere-France-Bresil/Entree-en-Guyane-fin-de-l-obligation-de-visa-de-court-sejour-pour-les-Bresiliens) - [Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service: 2011 overseas order Annex II: underlying Brazil row and special exceptions](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000051759462) - [France-Visas, French Government official visa service: France-Visas: short stays in non-European French territories](https://www.france-visas.gouv.fr/en/visa-de-court-sejour) - **Through July 30, 2026 — Other French Guiana ordinary passports: advance territory visa required (historical: BR)** (Visa required) The current DROM order requires a valid territory-specific visa unless an Annex II nationality exemption applies. This covers the ordinary-passport baseline after direct waivers and genuinely unresolved biometric rows are removed. - A valid visa must cover French Guiana; a Schengen visa alone does not authorize the territory. France-Visas' online workflow is application filing, not eVisa issuance. - French multi-entry-visa, residence-permit, long-stay visa, cruise, transit, crew, special/diplomatic/service passport and individual-admission exceptions remain conditional and do not change this ordinary-passport baseline. - Georgia's former Annex II exemption was removed effective June 2025. Vanuatu's waiver is restricted to pre-25-May-2015 ordinary passports, so it cannot establish a current unqualified ordinary-passport exemption. - Brazil's listed French Guiana exceptions are organized/brief/transit/frontier/emergency routes rather than a nationality-wide visitor waiver. Official sources: - [Légifrance, French Government legal publication service: Current Annex II: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion entry visas](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000051759462) - [Légifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 8 July 2021 replacing the DROM Annex II visa table](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/article_jo/JORFARTI000043814129) - [Légifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 28 May 2025 removing Georgia's DROM exemption](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000051753873) - [Légifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 3 May 2022 limiting Vanuatu's DROM exemption](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000045767262) - [France-Visas, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: Short-stay visas for non-European French territories](https://www.france-visas.gouv.fr/en/visa-de-court-sejour) ## Useful links - [HTML evidence page](https://multipassrank.com/brazil-french-guiana-visa-free) - [Brazil passport access](https://multipassrank.com/passport/brazil) - [All passport requirements for French Guiana](https://multipassrank.com/destination/french-guiana) - [Dataset license](https://multipassrank.com/data-license)