Go to the APHIS Area Office Map and locate the office nearest you.
The APHIS office does not request that you bring your pet. What they need is:
- Your pet's Certificate of Rabies Vaccination (see step 5). They don't require the original document, but Brazil does. Please provide the original.
- Your pet's International Health Certificate (see step 8). It must be the original.
- A money order for the endorsement fee.
Now call the APHIS office and find out how you can get this paperwork processed. I called the Texas office and got this information:
- They don't take walk-ins. If you plan on taking the certificates to the office, you need to make an appointment at least 2 or 3 days in advance.
- Once you leave your certificates at the office, you must allow for a 24-hour period before you can pick them up or have them sent to you.
- Appointment hours are Mon to Fri, 8a-2p.
- Certificates can be sent express (overnight) with a pre-paid return airbill so they can get back to you also express. If you fail to provide for express return, the certificates will be sent to you by regular mail.
- There is a $24 endorsement fee.
