My quibble was the use of the word automatic This suggests to me something that happens without human intervention which surely can not be the case A visa can not issue itself law or no law The system that issues visas must be informed of the visit of the royal personage and that information can only be provided by a human Effectively someone somewhere has to decide to approve the issuing of this visa and after that the system does what it needs to do To cause such a visa to be denied might be unprecedented and unthinkable but surely someone somewhere has such a hypothetical power That it may never be used still does not make the issuing of the visa automatic in my understanding of the word