Legal Definition and Related Resources of Visa

The authentication of a passport by a foreign authority signifying the permission granted by such authority to the holder of the passport to enter and travel in and through foreign country.

In civil law. The formula put upon an act; a register; a commercial book, in order to approve of it and authenticate it.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Visa in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term visa into Spanish: visado (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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Visa in Diplomatic Law

Visa

Written authority to enter a country for either temporary or permanent residence, depending on its wording.

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• Diplomacy entries in the World Encyclopedia
• Diplomacy entries in the American Legal Encyclopedia

Further Reading

• Satow’s Diplomatic Practice, Ivor Roberts
• Modern Diplomacy, R.P. Barnston

Legal Usage of Visa in English

An European Commission document offers the following explanation about the misused of Visa :Visa is misused to render not only ‘approval’ (example 1), but also the act of giving approval (example 2). In English, a visa is generally ‘an official authorisation appended to a passport, permitting entry into and travel within a particular country or region’. It is also the name of a credit card. Some dictionaries also give a meaning akin to the one used here (approve/ approval). However, it is not generally understood or used in this way, to the extent that none of the 407 occurrences of ‘visa’ in the British National Corpus corresponds to this meaning. In any case, you certainly cannot ‘perform’ , ‘do’ or ‘carry out’ a visa as in the first example below.

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‘Delegated Authorising Officers are responsible for financial management in their services, including functions that had previously been fulfilled at central level, such as, for instance, the centralised ex-ante visa performed by the Financial Controller, which was abolished in the context of Reform167.’ ‘An important part of the system is the role played by the Control and Finance Section which has to visa all transactions before they can be authorised168.’ ‘In addition, the Commission services indicated that the ex-ante visa of the Delegation would be suspended unless the ratification of the amendment to the MoU was ensured by the date of May JMC meeting and a credible plan to fully address the audit findings was prepared169.’

Alternatives

approval, endorsement, to approve, to endorse.

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Further Reading

• David Mellinkoff, “Mellinkoff’s Dictionary of American Legal Usage”, West Publishing Company, 1992
• Bryan A. Garner, “A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage”, West Publishing Company, 1995

A stamp on a passport that is prearranged permission for a foreigner to enter a country.

A stamp on a passport that is prearranged permission for a foreigner to enter a country.

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• Civil Liberty
• Civil Right
• Legal Right
• Citizen Freedom
• Political Liberty
• Constitutional Right
• Political Right
• Freedom of Speech