A VERY USEFUL GUIDE!

  DO YOU WANNA AN U.S. PERMANENT  VISA?   READ  IT!

The Brazil Immigration and Relocation Guide has been written to help potential immigrants in the quest to their country of choice.

The Guide would be extremely helpful to:

- People who do not want to spend thousands of dollars in immigration consultation fees

- People who do not mind to hire an immigration lawyer, but want to know what all their visa options are beforehand

- People who have general or academic interest in the subject of immigration to Brazil, all visa categories and procedures

Hi,

My name is Katia Castro, I’m from São Paulo, Brazil and here is why I have decided to write this Guide.

In 1999, I met a foreigner while studying in the USA and after some months of dating and living together we decided to get married. My future husband came to Brazil on Tourist Visa, we had translated and notarized all the necessary legal documentation and got married legally both in church and civil office.

We were extremely happy, life was in front of us, but before making any concrete plans on buying property, starting a business or even finding temporary job, first my husband needed Permanent Residence Visa. The Tourist Visa was to expire soon, so we gathered all the necessary documents as instructed by the Federal Police Department of Immigration and were ready to proceed.

Our research on the Internet showed that since we are legally married my husband has the right to obtain Permanent Residence as part of the Brazilian so called Family Reunion Law. Similar laws are popular in other countries in America and Europe so we were convinced that the process would be fast and easy.

We couldn’t be more WRONG!!

The BIG difference between the laws in Brazil and most of the other countries we researched was that in Brazil you had the RIGHT TO APPLY, but not the RIGHT TO RECEIVE!!

Our life turned to HELL! A small typing mistake in my husband’s name made all documents invalid and we had to redo everything! Then, The Federal Police officer in charge of our case reported that he went to our apartment for an interview (required by the law), but he couldn’t find us. Absolute LIE since my husband could not work on Tourist Visa and was at home all day long! More and more obstacles were laid on our road to the dreamed visa and at one point it was rejected by the Ministry of Justice with no explanation at all!

We were DEVASTATED! We didn’t know what to do and it seemed like our life together has come to an end – at least in Brazil, my country of birth! Something that was so obvious to us – getting married, having the visa issued and going ahead with our lives was denied and we had no solution!

At that point we decided that we still have another option – hiring an immigration lawyer, paying whatever fees they were going to ask us and having them to deal with the impossible bureaucracy in Brazil at that time.

So we did. It was not easy neither cheap but finally 2 years after getting married my husband finally received his Permanent Residence Visa.

According to our immigration lawyers we could avoid most of the problems and even get the visa ourselves if we knew WHAT EXACTLY to do and HOW EXACTLY to do it. We did not.

That’s the reason I decided to write this Guide – to help YOU avoid all the hassle and save your time and money when applying for visa to Brazil, and to give YOU the KNOWLEDGE of what to expect and how exactly to deal with it!

THIS IS A GLOBAL-WIDE-WILD-WORLD....1000 VIEWERS....THANKS FELLAS!

THESE ARE THE PLACES-COUNTRIES THAT A HAVE BEEN  ACESSED. THANKS  EVERYONE  FOR  IT!

Brasil     ---       801 Estados Unidos     ----     101 Reino Unido   ---        12 Croácia     ---     5   ( what a show!!!) Austrália    ---- 2 Indonésia   ----  1   (what a surprise!!!) Nova Zelândia    ---- 1 Vietnã    ----    1  (that´s  weird, doens´t it?) África do Sul    ----  1

MINI-BRITISH TUBE-OPERA

                          THE FLATMATES

Uma mini-soup-opera Britanica produzida pela BBC Inglesa  no site English-Course.

Super bacana!

Awesome!

PHRASAL VERBS......what is it?

Hi super!
Nestes ultimos dias venho dando algumas aulas de introdução ao estudo de PHRASAL VERBS, e
assim acabei colhecionando um monte de informção e material sobre o assunto:
Pra começo de conversa, legal explicar que  Phrasal verbs são Two-words sentences  - que isso? 
QUANDO 1 VERBO  + 1 PREPOSIÇÃO  juntam-se para criar na maioria das vezes um outro sentido ao verbo original.
Tem alguns até facil de compreender, mas outras construção são por muitas vezes indecifraveis e inexplicaveis.

Ex.:   

LOOK +  INTO  = olhar com atenção e ou Investigar.  - FACINHO NÉ?

GIVE + UP =  desistir; dar um tempo   -  Complicado este?

Aqui vai um texto analisado com alguns Phrasal verbs  bacanas:

MARCUS T. MASSON – THE CAMEL MAN

In February 2010,  Marcus Masson, who was once a high school drama teacher  and adventurer, completed a nineteen-day journey, which involved traveling 350 miles across the Sahara –desert. 

The longest-self-sufficient solo journey in history.

First, he went to Marrocos, where he bought two Camels. Then he set out on his epic journey, but the soon ran into problems. He was stung by a scorpion; he fell off a camel and broke several bones. He got lost and ran out of water in temperatures of over 45º Celsius, and he suffered from the hot sun, wind and sand. 

        

Eventually, after almost three weeks, he reached his destination, where a television crew, which was waiting for him, had given up hope of seeing him alive. He weighed 25 kilos less than when he had started.

TEXTO - MASTIGADO:   

 

**       He set out on his epic journey, but he soon ran into problems.

Ele iniciou sua épica jornada, mas logo ele deparou - encontrou alguns problemas.

Set out on = began

Ran into = met

Stung by = attacked by a scorpion

Ran out =  no more water

Given up =  Desist; stop

JOKES???? OH NO! ENGLISH JOKES ARE SO BORING!

                                                             I don’t wanna go to war

A guy was running down the street when he came up to a nun. 

He said to the nun “They’re after me. I don’t want to go to Afghanistan. 

- Can I hide under your dress?” The nun said “Sure.” 

A few minutes later a couple of soldiers ran up and asked the nun :

- “Did you see a guy running by here?” The nun said “He went that way.” 

They ran off.

After they had left, the guy climbed out from under her dress and said:

-“Thank you, sister. You saved my life. I didn’t want to go to Afghanistan.  

By the way, I hope you’re not offended for me saying so, but you have a beautiful set of legs.” 

The nun said 

“If you had looked a bit higher, you would have seen a great set of balls. 

I don’t want to go to Afghanistan, either.”

HEY HEY, MY MY...ROCK AND ROLL NEVERS DIE!

Viva Supers!

I won`t resist to post the video!

Little boy  - 2 yo talking about ROCK AND ROLL!

Watch out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VPC5uPIQMo&feature=player_embedded

Say "NO" to nuclear energy:

                        Japan earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster:

 A personal story about the next 100 years of human history. 

What will happen when we try to stop nuclear power?

Some people are going to scream, No, no, you can’t do that, because when oil runs out we won’t be able to maintain our economy.

There are at least two problems  (pelo menos 2 problemas) with this.

Briefly, (resumidamente) nuclear power requires oil (or other fossil fuels) to for many of its operations.
Think of mining and refining uranium ores, enrichment, construction of reactors, all the transportation that involves, decommissioning  (desmantelamento)of reactors and storage or disposal of nuclear waste, (eliminação de desperdícios) and so on without oil.
Difficult, to say the least (é nome mínimo difícil de dizer).

 Secondly, in the same way that ‘we’ passed over the conventional oil peak (peak = pico da exploração de petróleo) in 2006 (finally admitted by the IEA last November) the peak of uranium extraction is now thought to be sometime before 2030 for reasonably assured resources (razoavelmente seguro) or in the early 2040s for reasonably assured resources + inferred resources below US$130/KgU, at current rate of consumption.

Roughly 30 years later (aproximadamente 30 anos depois) than peak oil. In other words, nuclear power will never provide the energy that fossil fuels have up to now, and the more we try to do that the more dangerous it will be and the sooner the resource will ‘run out.’

So, if we think of saying ‘no’ to nuclear power, we have to think about the future of energy.

That will mean that we will have to think about the future of the economy, jobs, money, how we get our food (como conseguiremos nossa comida), and just about everything else, and that leads on to what kind of society we want to live in － what kind of society we want to create for the future, the future we hope our grandchildren and great grandchildren (o futuro que esperamos para netos e bisnetos) will enjoy in the 22nd century.

As I said above, we are going to have to think about these things sometime soon anyway; (pensar nisso mais cedo ou mais tarde) think about how to step back from the brink.

The alternative to not making that choice now, or soon, is some form of general social collapse almost everywhere, but especially in the advanced industrial countries, where people have been lulled into thinking (by the present system) that the current arrangements of economic growth can go on forever (que o atual sistema econômico continuara a crescer desta forma).

What I would like to ask you, please, to do:

Let’s assume the current crisis at Fukushima No. (vamos encarar a atual crise de Fukushima) Power Station is going to be ‘solved’ － well, reasonably well.

Let’s not go back to sleep.

Let’s all, together, take the first step away from insanity and towards taking back our lives by saying ‘no’ to nuclear power, (cair fora e dizer não para esta loucura de energia nuclear) all over the world, not just in Japan.