Consulate Staff Attend Workshop on Trafficking in Persons and Presentation by Former Youth Ambassador

The U.S. Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro held a staff training day.  During the morning, employees learned more about the Youth Ambassador program, which is the Embassy’s flagship cultural exchange program for disadvantaged youth.   Former Youth Ambassador Giovani Rocha Batista Santos, who participated in the 2009 program, and More...

The Winner of the 2009-2010 Astronomy Olympics contest Returns from her Trip to the U.S.

Rio de Janeiro - Ana Luiza Santos Martins from Duque de Caxias, RJ, was the winner of the 2009-2010 Astronomy Olympics, a partnership between the U.S. Consulate General in Rio, the Rio State Secretariat of Education, O Dia newspaper and the Rio Municipal Planetarium. As the grand-prize winner, Ana Luiza, embarked for the US on July 20, exactly 41 years after  Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. The 22-year-old public high-school student participated in a custom-designed trip to More...

U.S. Youth Ambassadors to Spend Three Weeks in Brazil as a Part of New Exchange Program

After the success of the Youth Ambassadors Program, a cultural exchange project run by the U.S. Embassy taking Brazilian public school students to the U.S., the Department of State has now launched a U.S. version of the program. “We want American youth to have the same opportunity to see and learn about Brazil that Brazilian youth have had through the Youth Ambassador’s program. The United States and Brazil have much in common and we can learn much from each other, and the best way to do that is through people-to-people connections,” said the US Embassy Country Public Affairs Officer, Adele Ruppe. More...

Want to be a Youth Ambassador 2011? Enrollment is open until August 5th, 2010. Don't miss this opportunity!

The U.S. Embassy launched the ninth edition of the Youth Ambassadors Program on April 26 in São Paulo. The launch marked the beginning of the enrollment phase of the program that will ultimately take 35 Brazilian public school students and two public school teachers to the United States for three weeks in 2011 with all expenses paid. Plublic school students have until August 5th to enroll. Click here for more information.  More...

U.S. Consulate in Rio Launches New Program for Business Visas

The United States Consulate General Rio De Janeiro is proud to announce the launching of a new visa program, the Business Program Plus (BPP). The goal of the program is to streamline the scheduling of visa interviews and better serve a rise in visa renewal requests from an ever-growing population of frequent business travelers from Brazil to the United States. Beginning August 2, qualifying business travelers who are resident within Rio’s five-state consular district may come to the consulate More...

Global Health Initiative: The Next Phase of American Leadership in Health Around The World. Read and Watch it here!

Remarks by Secretary Clinton on “The Global Health Initiative: The Next Phase of American Leadership in Health Around The World,” at Johns Hopkins University. "For millions of people worldwide, the prevention, treatment or care that the United States makes possible is their main experience of us as a country and a people. And it can be a very powerful one. Giving people a chance at a long and healthy life or helping protect their children from disease conveys as much about our values as any state visit or strategic dialogue ever could." More...

New Horizons: U.S. Military’s Humanitarian Efforts in Haiti

Washington — Seven months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake severely damaged Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, and the surrounding area, the need to rebuild the island nation continues. The U.S. military, which provided rapid support in the earthquake’s immediate aftermath, is now supporting the reconstruction process through medical and engineering projects in a military exercise called “New Horizons.” Units from the Louisiana Army National Guard are providing humanitarian services to Haitians in an exercise that aims to continue U.S. military help for Haiti following the seven months of actions to support earthquake relief. More...