Brazilian ordinary passports: temporary French Guiana visitor waiver
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.
- 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.
1 passport nationalities covered
Brazil