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visa

[vee-zuh] / ˈvi zə /


NOUN
green card
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Cornell said suspending him would jeopardize his student visa, the documents show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

They came over, she overstayed her visa, they met, they fell in love.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

A third man, Mansoor Mohammed, who came to the UK from India on a visa in 2019, was also identified as being involved in the handling of devices.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The German woman — forced to leave after her tourist visa expires — is gone and the bustling restaurant quiet again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I know. Anyway, we’ll serve as the sponsors. It should all hap­pen pretty quickly. He said the visa would be good for a year, plenty of time to apply for an adoption petition.”

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

The three places outside of the U.S. offer special digital-nomad visas and, importantly for our comparison, require no personal vehicle.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Many Romanians involved in the crimes are in the U.S. illegally, authorities say, having overstayed visas, failed to show for asylum hearings or sneaked over the border.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

For international student and graduate visas, Burke said: "We will no longer be adding to the stock of students automatically being able to bring family members over."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

One recent initiative of this type relates to the visas held by international students, researchers and scholars, and journalists.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Every day after Mamá bought food for us from street vendors for our meals, she and Papá went to the immigration office to check on our petition for visas.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

Hereafter peasants who may wish to move in from the country to Rovigno must apply for a permit 15 days in advance and have it visaed by the Chief of Police.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, for the first time since the War, Dutch frontier guards allowed Germans to enter the Netherlands without having their passports visaed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chamber needed two more copies of the original bill, which also had to be registered at the registration office and visaed by the price control office.

From Time Magazine Archive

Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited to the Control Council, but simply a purchasing mission with passports visaed by the Soviet occupation authorities.

From Time Magazine Archive

We took our passport to the commandant, who visaed them readily, and told us he'd do his best to get us transport.

From Greenmantle by John Buchan




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