Italian Consulate General in Porto Alegre

Brazilian citizens do not need a visa for Italy: stays of up to 90 days are visa-free.

In 2025, Italy’s consulate general in Porto Alegre received 8 applications for short-stay Schengen visas and issued 8. Applications fell by 20% compared with 2024 (10).

Italy issues Schengen visas at 6 locations in Brazil; this office handled 3% of their 314 applications in 2025. Refusal rates elsewhere: São Paulo 23.8%, Rio de Janeiro 5.7% and Brasília 18.2%. Each office serves the applicants who live in its own consular district, so the rates also reflect who applies where, not only how strictly files are assessed.

Across all Schengen consulates in Brazil, 23.6% of applications were refused in 2025; Italy’s rate worldwide was 10.8%. Italy received the 4th largest number of applications of the 16 Schengen states represented here.

The statistics count applications, not people, and include every nationality that applies here, not only citizens of Brazil.

For matters it cannot handle, the Italian embassy in Brasília is responsible. The Italian consulate general in Porto Alegre is one of 37 missions of Italy in Brazil. Consulates: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Joinville. Honorary consulates: São Luís, Fortaleza, Belém, Vitória, São José dos Campos, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, São João del Rei, Santos and 21 more. Brazil in turn has 5 missions in Italy, its embassy being in Rome.

About the Italian consulate general in Porto Alegre

It appears in official lists as Consulate General of Italy in Porto Alegre. It is headed by Cavalieri Luis, according to the records. Its work is consular: passports and documents for its own citizens and, often, visas for visitors.

Address and contact

Address: Av. Loureiro da Silva, 1940 13° andar – Porto Alegre (RS) – Brasile – 90050-202, Porto Alegre. The record for the Italian consulate general in Porto Alegre includes a phone number, an e-mail address and an official website. Its exact position is not recorded, so the map marks the town; use the street address.

Italian citizens travelling to Brazil

Italian citizens do not need a visa for Brazil: stays of up to 90 days are visa-free.

When the Italian consulate general in Porto Alegre is closed

The next closures of the Italian consulate general in Porto Alegre for public holidays in Brazil are Republic Proclamation Day (Proclamação da República) on Sunday 15 November 2026 and Black Awareness Day (Dia da Consciência Negra) on Friday 20 November 2026; it may also close for Immaculate Conception (Immacolata Concezione) on Tuesday 8 December 2026.

Before visiting the Italian consulate general in Porto Alegre

Current procedures for the Italian consulate general in Porto Alegre, including any appointment system, are on its official website, linked on this page.