Brazil to tighten entry rules to curb migration to North America

FILE PHOTO: A person shows passports from Brazil that were found on the banks of the Rio Bravo River, on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico September 19, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil will tighten up rules to enter the country without a visa starting next week, the government said on Wednesday, after migrants have been increasingly using the South American nation as a stop-over on the way to the United States and Canada.

Starting on Monday, foreign travellers without a Brazilian visa who are headed for another country must travel on to their destination or return to their home country, Brazil's public security ministry told Reuters in a statement.