VISA


Meaning of VISA in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an entry visa (= a visa which allows you to enter a country )

Visitors to the United States must first obtain an entry visa.

issue a passport/permit/visa etc

The US State Department issues millions of passports each year.

transit visa

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

temporary

The law limits jobs that can be filled by workers on temporary visas to no more than 65, 000 a year.

tourist

Persistent, Mitchell then applied for a tourist visa , but this too, not surprisingly, was rejected.

■ NOUN

application

There they are tricked into handing over their passports under the ruse that the men require them to process their visa applications .

entry

Desperate Jatinder Puri said she had been left with no alternative after her husband had been refused an entry visa three times.

The need to obtain an entry visa from an embassy often situated far away could be dangerous and could therefore hinder departure.

exit

There are also reports of exit visas being refused.

If I were arrested, that would be the end of every-thing the exit visa , the certificate.

Unfortunately he tells me his exit visa is time-expired.

Yet even if he did win a new homeland, there is always the matter of a Soviet exit visa .

The reissue of an exit visa took two hours and a thousand riyals.

His Soviet exit visa would eventually expire.

Would it be a good idea, perhaps, to introduce exit visas ?

requirement

About 3,500 Kurds came to Britain last May and June, before a visa requirement was hurried in to stem an influx.

They signed two agreements on improving economic co-operation and removing visa requirements for diplomats and businessmen.

New visa requirements mean 206 people, including a desperately ill girl, won't be allowed in.

■ VERB

apply

Persistent, Mitchell then applied for a tourist visa , but this too, not surprisingly, was rejected.

You applied for a visa in Helsinki and had it in two days.

deny

He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa .

get

But they were held up by complications in getting visas .

I took all my shots and got my visa .

Naturally, they made getting my visa as difficult as possible, even now after all the changes.

How did he get a visa and a passport?

grant

Kenan's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia.

issue

The Interior Ministry has been tipped off about companies issuing fake visas .

Under the agreement, two nominally private organizations were established to issue visas and represent the interests of the two governments.

obtain

Citizens are free to travel around the country and obtain visas to venture overseas.

Pond then took Olajuwon to see about obtaining a visa .

The need to obtain an entry visa from an embassy often situated far away could be dangerous and could therefore hinder departure.

Members of Congress have questioned the State Department about how Wang obtained a visa and whether officials knew of his arms background.

refuse

Desperate Jatinder Puri said she had been left with no alternative after her husband had been refused an entry visa three times.

On our third visit I was told the appeal had been turned down, Loi was still refused a visa .

Mae was refused a visa and what looked like a short hiccup developed into a long-drawn-out campaign.

require

However, please remember that some holidays require visas or inoculations, which may take several weeks to obtain.

Other items which employees require include entry/exit visas , work permits and details of local laws and working conditions.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His visa expired on June 30, 1972.

However, please remember that some holidays require visas or inoculations, which may take several weeks to obtain.

Hurley had promised him a visa , too.

I wondered how they would arrange my visa for Riga, but I didn't ask.

It is your responsibility to be in possession of a valid passport and any visa which may be necessary.

Members of Congress have questioned the State Department about how Wang obtained a visa and whether officials knew of his arms background.

We waited to have our visas minutely examined by security police with green uniforms and humorless expressions.

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