Flavio Bolsonaro and Family to Receive US Visas After Leaving Brazil, State Department Says

Asharq Al-Awsat EnglishOctober 28, 2026By author

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election, three sources said, with the US State Department due to grant him and his family entry visas. Bolsonaro, who has yet to concede to leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left Brazil after refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports. The ruling relates to a money laundering probe in which he denies wrongdoing.

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