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Different Types of Visa: A Comprehensive Guide 2021

What Is a Working Holiday Visa?

Working holiday visas allow the individual to take up temporary employment in a country through which they are traveling. This does not apply to every country that offers a working holiday program. This program is most popular in Australia.

What Is a Transit Visa?

This type of visa allows travelers to pass through a country that is not their destination country. Typically transit visas are required if you have a layover in a country of more than a few hours.

What Is a Travel/Tourist Visa?

An individual who holds the travel visa to enter a foreign country typically for a tour and other leisure purposes only. And this is for a specific period. These visas do not provide the authority to the holder to work or engage in any business activities in the host country.

What Is a Business Visa?

This type of visa typically allows the business individual to take up entry to the host country and go in for the business activities and not required to join that country’s labor market. For instance, if an individual wants to travel to a country for a business activity with another company or if they are just attending a business conference require a business visa. Here the visitor must display that they are not receiving any sort of income from that country.

What Is an eVisa?

Now an eVisa is an electronic visa, it is typically in the form of digital, and the data is stored in a database and not in the form of a usual paper document which is stamped or glued on to the bearer’s passport. This type of visa is linked to the individual’s passport number. And the applications for eVisas are generally done online and the applicant would receive a paper document to present when they are traveling.

How Does a Visa Look Like?

The traditional visas can either be stamped or glued into your passport. If your visa is glued into your passport, it is usually a small document that includes your name, passport number, place of birth, the reason for travel, and expiration date. Stamped visas typically have less information on them. They usually only have the destination and date from which the visa is valid and official instructions stating how many days the visa is valid for.

Immigrant Vs. Nonimmigrant Visas:

Travel visas can be divided into two categories: immigrant and nonimmigrant. Immigrant visas allow the individual to reside permanently in the host country, whereas nonimmigrant visas allow the bearer entry into the host country temporarily.

Why Do I Need a Visa to Travel?

Visas are necessary if an individual would like to travel to a country that does not have a visa policy in place with your home country.

Many countries have certain policies and agreements that permit their citizens to move freely between them without the need for a visa. For instance, Canadians and Americans do not need visas to travel to each other’s countries, they only require valid travel documents. However, Canadians do need visas to travel to Bhutan, since no visa agreement exists between these two nations.

When Do I Need a Visa?

This question arises when you got an opportunity to travel to another country for study, work, or even for business requirement purposes. And it depends on which country you’d like to travel to. If your home country has a visa agreement with the other country to which you wish to travel, then you must apply for a visa before you travel.

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