A visa is actually a document or an imprint on your passport that allows one to enter another country for tourism, business, labor, education, and many more. Actually, the policies and requirements with regard to a visa have been widely changed. Sometimes this depends on your nationality and the intention of your visit and how long you will spend in the country. Here goes the list that would push you through the doors of various nations. They would look something like this:
Types of Travel Visa
1. Tourist Visa: Applied in the case of recreational travel and seeing the sights. They are issued for a rather limited time; an applicant cannot take up employment.
2. Business Visa: A paper which permits one to attend meetings, conferences, or negotiate business with the corresponding company.
3. Student’s Visa: Students hold this when studying at a foreign institution.
4. Work Visa: It gives license to a foreigner to be employed in the country, and many times this needs an employer to sponsor such.
5. Transit Visa: To pass through a country en route to another destination. Usually issued for a very brief period of time .
6. Medical Visa: For persons for treatment abroad.
7. Family/Spousal Visa: Issued to family members or spouses of the citizens for them to stay in a foreign country.
Visa Requirements
The requirements for a visa are pretty varied from country to country, and at times they depend upon the purpose of your travel. In general, you shall be required to provide the following:
A valid passport with validity up to at least six months from the supposed exit date.
Visa Application
A visa application properly completed
Recent passport-sized photographs
Traveling Arrangements: A return Ticket
Finances: How You Will Take Care of Your Self as a Visitor
Where you will be staying
Payment for the Application for a Visa
Application Process
1. Online or Paper Application: Applications can be made on-line in some countries while others need it to be made in person.
2. Biometrics: At times you may be required to give your fingerprinting or a digital photo.
3. Interview: Given the circumstances, this is an interview at the embassy or consulate but might be waived depending on the type of visa applied for.
4. Approval Time: Anything from a few days to weeks
Visa upon Arrival & e-Visas
Visa upon Arrival VoA : Visitors can obtain depending once again on from which country they come, a visa upon arrival in some countries.
E-visa: Most countries have now adapted mechanisms for e-visa, which allows tourists to apply and get a visa online.
Schengen Visa
A very good example is that of the ‘Schengen Visa’, which permits travel in and around 26 European countries with no internal border checks. This makes it very high in demand with regard to tourists traveling to Europe.
What’s always well and good, though, is finding out in good time what awaits a country as regards visa requirements, just in case.
