page_title: Travel visa
section_title: Types
hierarchical_section_title: Travel visa / Types
caption_attribution_description: English: Chinese tourist visa. 中文: 中華人民共和國旅遊簽證
context_page_description: A visa is a conditional authorization granted by a territory to a foreigner, allowing them to enter, remain within, or to leave that territory. Visas typically may include limits on the duration of the foreigner's stay, areas within the country they may enter, the dates they may enter, the number of permitted visits or an individual's right to work in the country in question. Visas are associated with the request for permission to enter a territory and thus are, in most countries, distinct from actual formal permission for an alien to enter and remain in the country. In each instance, a visa is subject to entry permission by an immigration official at the time of actual entry, and can be revoked at any time. A visa most commonly takes the form of a sticker endorsed in the applicant's passport or other travel document.
  Historically, immigration officials were empowered to permit or reject entry of visitors on arrival at the frontiers. If permitted entry, the official would issue a visa, when required, which would be a stamp in a passport.
context_section_description: Each country typically has a multitude of categories of visas with various names. The most common types and names of visas include:
caption: Tourist entry visa to the People's Republic of China.
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