visa
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈviːzə/
- Formal
:
visado
- Do you know what would happen if they found out your visa had expired?
- immigrant visa
- visa requirements
- passports and visas
We also haven't printed our visas for Vietnam yet.
- We also haven't printed our visas for Vietnam yet.
- I, I couldn't get a visa and go to to, to to Moscow.
- Secondly, I needed a visa to go to Ghana me from Cameroon.
- And I was I couldn't get a visa into the Soviet Union.
- Again my skills to get the visa in the US embassy.
- And they're like, well, you've out stayed your visa on your passport.
- There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese students here, visa holders, hundreds of thousands.
- But I do want to get I couldn't get it an Argentinian visa just in case.
- So he just got on a plane like, no real visa other than a tourist visa.
- And then the trickle down gets to these foreign visa green card holders to come over here.
Examples
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After 1964, the legal channels to migrate were restricted to visas for family reunification.
Academic text (1999) -
And with that precious American immigration visa you've safely tucked away, you can relax!
Fiction book (1993) -
Her visa ran out seven years ago.
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I checked his visa application, the purpose for travel was given as 'medical treatment'.
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I want a list of every visa he sponsored.
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I have an exit visa.
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She's from Belfast, came here on a student visa, and never went back.
Fiction book (1996) -
At worst, the government might revoke my tourist visa, which already prohibited me from working in the country.
Academic text (2011) -
The United States will grant intra-company transferee visas to Canadians for up to three years initially.
Academic text (1990) -
She is applying for a visa to study abroad next year.
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Etymology
Visa comes from the Latin videre which means 'to see'. It originally meant something 'seen' and checked by an official, so a visa is the mark that shows an officer has 'seen' and approved your passport.