From 31 January, travellers leaving Brazil will need to present a scannable gov.br QR code instead of paper IDs. Airlines foresee faster processing but urge corporate flyers and expatriates to activate digital accounts now to avoid denied boarding. A short grace period will end mid-February. During pilots at São Paulo/Guarulhos, PF officers scanned a passenger’s QR code in an average of 25 seconds—less than half the time required to type passport data manually. Authorities claim the new process will cut queues by up to 30 %, reduce document fraud, and feed real-time exit-data into migration analytics.