*from the latin charta visa*
(meaning “paper which has been seen”)
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(a visa is a ‘conditional authorization’ granted by a ‘country’ to a ‘foreigner’, allowing them to ‘enter’, ‘remain within’, or to ‘leave’ that ‘country’)
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(‘visas’ typically include…)
*’limits’ on the duration of the foreigner’s stay*
*’territory’ within the country they may enter*
*the dates they may enter*
*the number of ‘permitted visits’*
*an individual’s right to work in the ‘country in question’*
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(‘visas’ are associated with the ‘request for permission’ to enter a ‘country’ and thus are (in some countries) distinct from ‘actual formal permission’ for an ‘alien’ to ‘enter’ + ‘remain’ in the ‘country’)
(in each instance, a ‘visa’ is subject to ‘entry permission’ by an ‘immigration official’ at the time of ‘actual entry’ + can be revoked at any time)
(a visa is most commonly a sticker endorsed in the applicant’s passport or other travel document)
(the visa, when required, was historically granted by an immigration official on a visitor’s arrival at the frontiers of a country, but increasingly today a traveller wishing to enter another country must apply in advance for a visa, sometimes in person at a consular office, by mail or over the internet)
(the actual visa may still be a sticker or a stamp in the passport or may take the form of a separate document or an electronic record of the authorisation, which the applicant can print before leaving home and produce on entry to the host country)
(some countries do not require visas for short visits)
(some countries require that their citizens, as well as foreign travelers, obtain an “exit visa” to be allowed to leave the country)
(uniquely, the Norwegian special territory of ‘Svalbard’ is an entirely visa-free zone under the terms of the ‘Svalbard Treaty’)
(some countries – such as those in the ‘Schengen Area’ – have agreements with other countries allowing each other’s citizens to travel between them without ‘visas’)
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(the ‘world tourism organization’ announced that the # of tourists who require a ‘visa’ before traveling was at its lowest level ever in ‘2015’)
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