Do Brazilian passport holders need a visa for Thailand?

No. Brazilian passport holders enter Thailand without a visa, and on unusually strong footing: as well as the tourist exemption scheme that most nationalities rely on, Thailand holds a bilateral visa-exemption agreement with Brazil covering ordinary passports for stays of up to 90 days. Brazil is one of only five countries in that 90-day bilateral group.

Visa required

No

Bilateral agreement

Yes, up to 90 days

Passports covered

Diplomatic, official and ordinary

Others in the 90-day bilateral group

Argentina, Chile, South Korea, Peru

Also on the tourist exemption scheme

Yes, both apply

Basis

A treaty, alongside the unilateral scheme

Entry requirements

• A valid Brazilian passport with comfortable remaining validity. The bilateral agreement covers ordinary passports, not only diplomatic and official ones, but Thai immigration applies a minimum-validity rule of its own, so confirm the current figure before booking rather than arriving on a nearly expired document.
• The ordinary evidence of a visit that an airline or an immigration officer may ask for, including onward travel and somewhere to stay.
• Thailand’s digital arrival card, which every traveller completes regardless of which exemption they enter under.
• Attention to what is actually stamped in your passport on arrival, since two different entitlements exist on this route and the officer records one of them.

Two entitlements, and why the difference matters in 2026

Thailand runs a unilateral tourist visa exemption scheme covering a long list of countries and territories, and separately holds bilateral visa-exemption agreements with a much smaller set. Brazil appears in both. The Department of Consular Affairs marks Brazil, South Korea and Peru with a note recording that Thailand also holds bilateral agreements with them for visits not exceeding 90 days.

The bilateral group at 90 days is five countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Korea and Peru. It is a narrower and older arrangement than the tourist scheme, and it rests on an agreement between two governments rather than on a Thai policy decision.

That distinction has become the practical point in 2026, because the Thai Cabinet has been reworking the unilateral scheme and shortening it. A bilateral agreement is not something a Cabinet resolution on the unilateral scheme revokes, so a Brazilian traveller should not assume that a headline about the exemption being cut is a headline about them.

Good to know

• Almost every current article about Thai entry rules is about a scheme Brazil is not confined to. The coverage concerns the unilateral tourist exemption and how long it will run for; Brazil sits additionally inside a bilateral visa-exemption agreement at 90 days for ordinary passports. Read that coverage knowing it describes the weaker of your two entitlements, and check what you were actually granted at the border rather than assuming the number in the news.
• Being in the bilateral group is genuinely rare and the company is specific: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Korea and Peru. Four of the five are South American, which is why advice from a Chilean or Argentine friend is unusually likely to be accurate for a Brazilian on this particular route, and advice from a European friend is unusually likely not to be. That is the reverse of the normal warning.
• The agreement reaches ordinary passports, which is the part people assume away. Bilateral visa arrangements are often diplomatic and official passports only, and travellers reasonably discount them as irrelevant. Thailand’s consular summary records this one as covering diplomatic, official and ordinary passports alike, so it applies to a tourist with an ordinary Brazilian passport.
• Do not read a fixed 90 days as a promise about your particular arrival. The agreement sets a maximum for a visit rather than an entitlement to be stamped for the full period, and the officer at the border decides what to grant in the ordinary way. Check the stamp before leaving the hall, because an assumption about the length of stay is the expensive kind of mistake on a long trip.

Frequently asked questions

Related pages

• Do Hong Kong passport holders need a visa for Thailand?
• Do Laotian citizens need a visa for Thailand?
• Do Mauritian citizens need a visa for Thailand?
• Check visa requirements for any passport

Other passports for Thailand

• United Kingdom passport holders visiting Thailand
• Bhutan passport holders visiting Thailand
• Republic of the Congo passport holders visiting Thailand

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against the official sources below on 31 August 2026.

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, Department of Consular Affairs, "Summary of Countries and Territories entitled for Visa Exemption and Visa on Arrival to Thailand", dated 9 May 2024. Under Ordinary Passport, Bilateral Agreement, period of stay 90 days: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Korea (ROK) and Peru. Read 2026-08-31. https://image.mfa.go.th/mfa/0/zE6021nSnu/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3/VOA.pdf
• Same document, Remarks: "Passport holders of Brazil, Korea (ROK) and Peru are entitled to tourist visa exemption scheme. Meanwhile, Thailand also holds bilateral agreements on visa exemption for holders of diplomatic, official and ordinary passports for a visit of not exceeding 90 days with Brazil, Korea (ROK) and Peru." Read 2026-08-31. https://image.mfa.go.th/mfa/0/zE6021nSnu/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3/VOA.pdf
• Note on the same source: this summary is dated 9 May 2024 and its figures for the unilateral tourist exemption scheme predate the later changes to that scheme. It is cited here for the bilateral agreement and the countries in it, not for the current length of the unilateral exemption. Read 2026-08-31.

Entry rules change without notice and the official source is always the authority. Confirm with the embassy or immigration portal before you book.