Brazil Consulate NYC: Address, e-Visa, Hours & Services

Address and Contact Information

Details verified against Itamaraty (Brazilian Foreign Ministry) consulate listings and the US Embassy in Brazil's guidance, October 14, 2026. Note the consulate's older Midtown address still circulates on directories — use the current one below.

Older listings show the consulate at 1185 Avenue of the Americas — that address is outdated, so ignore any page, map pin, or rideshare favorite still pointing to Sixth Avenue. When emailing, write in Portuguese or English with your full name, CPF number if you have one, and the exact service; consular staff triage precise requests far faster than vague ones. If any detail above has changed, the official Itamaraty consulate page controls — confirm on the official mission page before traveling to Midtown East.

Office Hours (Verified October 2026)

The New York consulate works strictly by appointment on business days — there is no general walk-in counter for consular acts.

Verification date: October 14, 2026. Because nothing is served without a validated e-consular request, "hours" effectively mean the appointment slots the system offers you — book as early as the calendar allows, since passport and notarial demand in New York runs weeks out in peak seasons. Re-check the official consulate page the day before attendance for any schedule notice.

Jurisdiction: Who This Consulate Serves

Brazil divides the US into consular districts, and e-consular requests route by declared residence. The New York Consulate General covers New York State and neighboring northeastern states in its district; the rest of the country belongs to the Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the other consulates general (Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, and others).

Starting an e-consular file at the wrong post forces a transfer that restarts validation queues — check the district map before uploading a single document. Proof of address in the district is commonly required at validation, so have a lease, utility bill, or state ID ready as a scan.

e-Visa for Americans: Rules, Process and Fee

This is the section most US readers need. Brazil reinstated the visitor-visa requirement for US, Canadian, and Australian tourists effective April 10, 2025, implemented as a fully electronic e-Visa — confirmed by the US Embassy and Consulates in Brazil. No embassy visit is involved for tourists; the whole process runs on the single authorized website.

1. Use only brazil.vfsevisa.com: this is the Brazilian government-authorized e-Visa site. Copycat domains with similar names charge markups or harvest passport data — type the address directly.
2. Prepare a valid US passport with validity covering the trip, a digital photo meeting the site's specs, and your travel details.
3. Complete the application and pay: the published fee for US citizens is US$80.90 — confirm the current figure on the official site before paying, as fees are revised.
4. Apply well before departure: standard guidance is weeks ahead; do not assume 72-hour turnarounds in peak Carnival or summer season.
5. Carry the e-Visa linkage proof when traveling, since airline check-in staff verify Brazil authorization before boarding US–Brazil flights.

Work, study, digital-nomad, and residence travel need the corresponding formal visa categories — not the tourist e-Visa — processed through consular channels starting in e-consular. If your itinerary mixes tourism with any paid activity, volunteering structure, or study enrollment, ask the consulate which category applies before buying the e-Visa; entering on the wrong authorization can mean refusal at the Brazilian port of entry.

Services: Passports, Registry, Notarial, Voter

For Brazilian nationals, the New York consulate runs the complete standard menu. Every item below starts in e-consular — the counter only sees you after online validation.

Two dependencies trap applicants every week: men with irregular military status and voters with unjustified absences get blocked at passport validation until those are regularized — fix military and voter standing before opening the passport request. For registry acts, the apostille-plus-sworn-translation pair on every US document is non-negotiable; files arrive daily missing one half of the pair and lose their slots.

How to Book via e-Consular

Brazil's system inverts the familiar order: documents first, appointment second. The consulate assigns your slot only after officers validate the upload.

1. Create your e-consular account on Brazil's official e-consular platform and select the New York post and the exact service.
2. Fill the request completely and upload every listed document as legible scans — blurry phone photos are the number-one validation failure.
3. Submit and await validation: officers review remotely and message corrections through the system. Respond promptly; stalled files expire back in the queue.
4. Receive your slot: once validated, the system assigns the in-person appointment. Save the confirmation.
5. Attend with originals: bring every uploaded document's original plus the confirmation and ID to 225 East 41st Street, arriving 20 minutes early for building security.

Never pay third parties offering "guaranteed slots" — the system is free and slots follow validation, not payment. If validation messages confuse you, reply inside e-consular rather than emailing separately; the reviewing officer sees the thread with your file attached.

Fees: Verified Figures and Payment

Brazilian consular fees follow the official consular-fee table (tabela de emolumentos) priced in US dollars, and the e-Visa carries its own published price. Only the figure below is stated as verified; everything else must be confirmed at the source.

Pay consular fees exactly by the method e-consular specifies for your request — wrong-method payments invalidate attendance and cost the slot. Keep every receipt: the pickup of passports and registered documents requires proof of payment. If you cannot verify a current figure for your procedure, ask through e-consular or cg.novayork@itamaraty.gov.br naming the exact act rather than estimating.

Holiday Closures

The consulate closes on Brazilian national holidays — including Carnival Tuesday, Good Friday, Tiradentes (April 21), Labor Day (May 1), Corpus Christi, Independence Day (September 7), Our Lady of Aparecida (October 12), All Souls' Day, Proclamation of the Republic (November 15), and Christmas — and on US federal holidays such as Thanksgiving, July 4th, and Memorial Day. Because service is appointment-only, a holiday week simply shows no slots rather than a closure sign on the door; plan passport renewals at least a month clear of Carnival season and the December holidays, when demand peaks and calendars fill first. Election-year voting services follow the electoral calendar with their own strict cutoff dates — registry and transfer deadlines pass months before polling day. Check the official consulate page for the year's holiday notices before locking travel around any appointment.

Directions, Parking and Transit

225 East 41st Street sits between Second and Third Avenues in Midtown East, an easy walk from Grand Central Terminal (4/5/6, 7, S, Metro-North) — come by rail, not by car. From Grand Central, walk east on 42nd and north one block; the 4/5/6 Lexington–59th and downtown buses on Third and Lexington also serve the block. Driving in Midtown East means garage rates with no consulate parking, so drivers should budget for a 41st–44th Street garage and 45 minutes of buffer. Enter with photo ID for lobby screening, allow elevator time in a multi-tenant office building, and have the e-consular confirmation plus originals ready before reaching the consular floor. Copy shops and photo services cluster around Grand Central for last-minute fixes.

Frequently Asked Questions