A visa is a permit to enter a country. Usually, visas have a fixed duration, that is, a person has the right to stay on the territory of a foreign state for a strictly limited number of days. All visas are currently registered, they are pasted or put into a foreign passport.
Instructions
Step 1
Typically, a visa is a one-page sticker in your passport. The visa contains information about the host country, the applicant (name and surname, date of birth, gender, citizenship, passport number) and validity period. It also indicates the category and number of entries that can be made with this visa, the date of issue and the purpose of the trip. Sometimes information about the inviting person or organization is added to the visa. A special code also contains other information that is understandable only to employees of the embassies: it can be used to determine by whom and where this visa was issued.
Step 2
Most modern visas are protected against counterfeiting through various methods. This can be a special form containing water lines and patterns that are difficult to repeat or imitate. Usually, although not always, the visa is "decorated" with a fresh photograph of the applicant, so that the experienced traveler turns the passport into a mini-photo album.
Step 3
Visas for all countries are slightly different. There is no single set of rules that would regulate the rules for issuing visas for all countries. But such rules may exist if countries have entered into an alliance that provides for a single visa space, for example, the Schengen Union. Previously, each country that was part of it issued a visa with its own design, but now all Schengen visas look almost the same. Visas for many countries are light green. Russia also issues light green visas. There are visas of a different color, for example, an American visa. Visa for the same country may look different depending on the selected country.
Step 4
Previously, visas were not issued in the form of a sticker, but were written out on a regular sheet of paper. It was glued or put into a passport. Today, there are also visas that are not present in the passport, but these are the ones that are issued on the Internet. Some countries allow you to submit documents and pay the visa fee through the website, and the visa comes in the form of a document by e-mail. It needs to be printed (although officially this can be omitted - the presence of a visa is determined by the passport).
Step 5
Some visas are stamped on the passport. On this seal, some information can be manually added, for example, the length of stay. Such a visa is easy to forge and handwritten data can be tweaked, so countries trying to control immigration do not use it.
Step 6
The visa should not be confused with the stamp that is placed at the border crossing. The stamp is put up by border guards at passport control. It contains information about the place of border crossing and the date of this event. But if one country has canceled visas for citizens of another country, then the stamp actually replaces the visa. For example, in a number of countries in Southeast Asia, Russian tourists are stamped and do not require a visa if the length of stay meets certain rules.
