Candaina wants to ride out of Peru

[markharf]

Sounds to me like it's worth multiple thousands of dollars for your friend to get "verified" (whatever that means) banks statements sent from Canada. I'm not sure why he's putting that off, but that's the choice you're describing.

[mamboman75]

As I understand it, they did not accept his uploaded colour scan of his bank statement, they wanted an original bank statement be sent to the Brazilian embassy in Canada for verification (all in the name of reciprocity, I assume, because some other countries require the same of Brazilians). And they said the process could take up to 15 days, so too late to arrange in his case, but definitely doable, if you are at home and plan ahead. If I were going that route, I would just be worried if the loophole whereby that particular border crossing (Iñapari - Assis) does allow foreigners to exit on Peru-plated bikes, its only a matter of time before they start enforcing the new law there as well.