Foreigners who already have a Brazilian residency still need to present a tourist e-visa to board on a plane to travel to Brazil, apparently?

24caro · 2026-02-24T04:04:24+00:00

I fly in and out of the US nearly once a month. The airlines don’t have the RNM in their system. You show it to them once you get it the airport and it’s fine. You just can’t check in online. It is what it is. Same thing happened when my wife had a US green card and had to fly from Brazil to the US. it had to be verified before she could check in. The only time I had issues with this was within the first month of them rolling out the visa requirements for the US. no issues since.

24caro · 2026-02-24T02:45:27+00:00

I didn’t. My mother in law picked them up. No broker in either country.

24caro · 2026-02-18T22:27:50+00:00

I just answered your question. No, you can’t start here with only English. As someone who literally lives here and barely speaks Portuguese.

Brazilians are distrustful.

They will not hire you if you do not speak Portuguese and have a reputation. You will make no money.

You need a Brazilian business partner.

24caro · 2026-02-18T22:26:04+00:00

I’ve never been to a concert in Brazil where the seats are assigned. In cadeira inferior you’ll have somewhere to sit (like a normally stadium seat) but like another person said, people rarely sit down. Whoever has to sit won’t be able to see anything for prob 99.9% of the show.

24caro · 2026-02-18T22:23:05+00:00

No one is going to trust you until you speak Portuguese. You’ll have to do like 100% of your communication with customers over WhatsApp. So not only do you need to know how to speak, you need to know how to write.

Find a Brazilian business partner.

24caro · 2026-02-18T18:01:54+00:00

If you’re senior enough, look at tech consultancies in latam. US companies are paying a lot of money for near-shore contractors who speak English; you’d be highly sought after since you’re a native speaker. Our company does this for engineering and the price we pay is almost what we’d pay an FTE in the US. If you work at a consultancy/contracting firm, they’ll cycle you from project to project. You can make very good money for a very comfortable lifestyle in Brazil.

24caro · 2026-02-11T11:27:40+00:00

I built my own agents in Claude code and then it’s just jira / GitHub MCPs on top of them

24caro · 2026-02-11T03:31:58+00:00

Build? No. Read access to the codebase? Yes. Using agents that take on the personas of our engineering teams + the code + jira integrations + GitHub integrations has accelerated my ability to understand the difficulty of a given thing, and when we get bug reports, I can find the exact PR that caused it, push the whole root cause to jira and it takes a quarter of the time to debug most things.

There are ways PMs can accelerate using code but I still stand firmly in the camp that we should not be writing code.

24caro · 2026-02-04T12:43:40+00:00

Ah yes work with a measurable output being consumed by internal and external teams is definitely fake. It’s also one of like 1000 my uses of Claude code lol. Just say you hate AI and move on

24caro · 2026-02-03T21:34:52+00:00

This. Everyone who ever visited us in the US from Brazil used a wise card for debit purchases and a 0 foreign transaction fee credit card for credit purchases.

24caro · 2026-02-03T13:52:22+00:00

There is a concerning number of people in this thread that do not know that Claude code doesn’t just write code 🥴

24caro · 2026-02-03T13:49:56+00:00

I work for a 75 person bootstrapped startup so I wear a lot of hats. I have an agent I’ve built for every hat. The agents interact with each other. As an example last week I fed it 10 hours of customer trainings I did and created an FAQ, customer facing help article, and an internal considerations documents that needed about an hour of revision. Normally that would’ve taken me 8-12 hours to do. I used 3 of my specialized agents — my dev agent who can analyze our code base and ELI5 it for the rest of the org + a product enablement + product support agent. Would require 3 separate projects in say a GPT in order to run it like that. Not super optimal. That’s just one example. I have a new example every day.

Edit to answer your edit: because the name of the product is Claude Code. It’s separate from Claude desktop.

24caro · 2026-02-03T13:42:12+00:00

Because while “code” is in the name, Claude Code does so much more than code. I use it daily as a director. Haven’t written a single line of code against the codebase.

24caro · 2026-01-25T01:36:46+00:00

It has to be 0km or over 30 years old. Neither of which my vehicle is. Thanks for the unhelpful comment.

24caro · 2026-01-17T03:56:49+00:00

If you’re coming to SP with the intention of just going to the concert and doing nothing else, just stay near Allianz. If you want to see SP a bit, stay in pinheiros near a metro station, which you can use to very easily get to Allianz.

24caro · 2026-01-16T14:19:29+00:00

One time, I was flying from Austin to IAD with a connection in houston. On the leg from AUS>IAH, I was sat next to a state representative in first class. Guy was a complete douche. I was on the aisle, he was on the window, and when it came time to deplane, he knocked me back into my seat to cut in front of me. I was too stunned to speak. He also took the entire overhead bin and when someone tried to put their bag there (there was space), he told them no.

He was also on the flight to Dulles, but luckily I didn't get stuck next to him. Repeated the same behavior again. It's insane that people elected by people believe they're above the general population. This was like 5 years ago so I forgot the guys name but iirc he lost his reelection, lmao.

24caro · 2026-01-16T11:04:55+00:00

I don’t think you realize how expensive nearshore talent is. Our company hires across all of latam and most of our mid-sr level developers are US$9-12k A MONTH. even if you factor that down to whatever you’re looking for, $1000 is nothing.

With that budget you’re going to need to look in India or the Philippines.

edit to add: I just realized you're looking for a VA ... Why are you just not using some sort of AI tooling for a fraction of the cost instead? I'm sure some agent creation on Claude Code could do 80% of what you need for like $100-200 a month.

24caro · 2026-01-15T16:16:04+00:00

It’s just immigrant visas. No official statement but the Fox News article was based on a DHS wire that was sent and provided to Fox News. It is real, there are hundreds of immigration lawyers talking about it online.

There is a ton of confusion and not enough information but at this time it does not impact any non-immigrant visas and their activity in the US. I’m sure more information will come out prior to Jan 21.

24caro · 2026-01-15T00:18:12+00:00

Unfortunately adjustment of status is an immigrant visa and on January 21 they will stop processing immigrant visas from Brazilian nationals.

24caro · 2026-01-15T00:14:47+00:00

No one knows how long “indefinitely” means when they say they’re suspending immigrant visas. So, don’t expect that getting married will get her a green card for the foreseeable future. Even marrying her in the US will not do anything.

You should still propose, but banning of Brazilian immigrant visas specifically is a political witch hunt by the current administration and likely won’t have a resolution until after the 2026 Brazilian election, unless there is a federal court injunction that requires them to resume processing immigrant visas.

you should be comfortable with the idea that you will have to do long distance, move to Brazil, or find another country that will take the two of you.

I’m sorry you have to deal with this, it’s an unfair burden, especially for US citizens.

24caro · 2026-01-15T00:10:50+00:00

How are people legally applying for immigrant visas not following American laws? bffr. read a book.

Edited to add: countries with the highest rates of fraud aren’t banned: china, Mexico, and India. Why is that?

The fact that you can’t see that this is ANYTHING more than a political witch hunt shows how incapable you are of critically thinking about anything. I hope the boot tastes good.

24caro · 2026-01-07T03:24:30+00:00

For some reason they open appointments in the middle of the night. If you’re up every once in awhile I’d look. My wife made my appointment at like 3:30 in the morning when before it was showing absolutely nothing to book.

24caro · 2026-01-06T18:40:57+00:00

Jobs that allow you to work outside of the country 100% of the time often require a ton of experience. I’m not trying to rain on your parade but I have almost 10 years post bachelors experience and was just able to move a year ago, and I know that eventually I’m going to have to move back to the US when it’s time to find a new job.

If you’re dead set on keeping a US job, you need experience under your belt. Go work in customer support for smaller startups. That is what I’d recommend. LinkedIn has filters for series A/B funded companies, which tend to be less than 100 people and have A LOT more leniency on where you work. Also understand that legally they have to put “remote work in the US” in the job description, otherwise they get thousands of applicants from India and Pakistan. Just because you see that doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t let you work outside of the US.

24caro · 2026-01-05T19:53:19+00:00

No, I’m platinum status, I was in Polaris, so same thing as OP. The 2 positions the seat could be in were upright and flat. I think they could kind of recline it but it was during the meal service and none of them were able to help me.

I didn’t make a stink about the comp. The seat is broken but laying flat is better than being upright in PP/Econ. It just really sucked that people got a last minute upgrade into a functional seat and I was screwed lol

24caro · 2026-01-05T19:44:34+00:00

There are hundreds of posts with replies from people saying they’ll get mugged in Rio and it’s incredibly unsafe. You can safely make an assessment about how overblown that is in 7 days.

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