RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (AP, pic below) has filed a request for a six-month visitor visa to stay in the United States (US), indicating he may have no immediate intention of returning home, where legal issues await.
The application was first reported by The Financial Times, citing Bolsonaro’s immigration lawyer, Felipe Alexandre. Contacted by The Associated Press (AP), the lawyer’s firm, AG Immigration, confirmed the report.
Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida on December 30, two days before the inauguration of his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The ceremony proceeded without incident, but a week later thousands of Bolsonaro’s die-hard supporters stormed the capital and trashed the top government buildings demanding that Lula’s election be overturned.
