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Visa (document)
A visa (short for the Latin carta visa, lit. "the document having been seen") is a document issued by a country giving an individual permission to formally request entrance to the country during a given period of time and for certain purposes (see below for caveats and exceptions) and most always stamped or glued inside of a passport, or are sometimes issued as separate pieces of paper.
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