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vee zuh

  • n  an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it
  • v  provide (a passport) with a visa
  • v  approve officially
    The list of speakers must be visaed

  • Three days before the opening ceremonies, Beijing revoked the visa of Joey Cheek, a former Olympian and Darfur activist.
  • Security concerns have prompted China to tighten visa requirements, choking off the flow of visitors to the capital.
  • New restrictions in visa requirements for China angers and perplexes the business community in Hong Kong.
News & Articles

  • Quick Take: Fund Manager All-In On Actavis, Visa
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Are there quality growth stocks out there? TheStreet's Gregg Greenberg discusses a few of them with Edward Painvin, portfolio manager for the Chase Growth Fund. Painvin's first pick is Visa, which is up over 50% in the last year and, as Greenberg pointed out, is now trading at 22 times next year's earnings. While it may seem expensive, Painvin notes that Visa controls 22 ...
    June 18, 2013 - TheStreet.com
  • Go All-In On Actavis, Visa
    Chase Growth Fund portfolio manager Edward Painvin names his favorite stocks including Visa, Actavis, Thermo Fisher and Precision Castparts.        
    June 18, 2013 - TheStreet.com
  • Visa Exchange Program Draws Scrutiny Under Immigration Bill
    As lawmakers consider a sweeping immigration bill, they are taking a close look at a decades-old exchange program popular with foreigners looking for summer jobs. Critics of the J-1 visa program say it can hurt U.S. job seekers at a time when youth unemployment is at 25 percent.
    June 17, 2013 - NPR
Quotes

  • Nouri al-Maliki in Wall Street Journal
    The government of Iraq is an elected one and sovereign. When it gives a visa, it is responsible for the visa,Mr. Maliki said in an interview Sunday in New York. "We consider the arrest ...... of this individual who holds an Iraqi visa and...
  • Michael Chertoff in Voice of America
    We have a visa waiver program that allows most Europeans who come to be tourists to travel without a visa,Chertoff said. "That means the first time we encounter them is when they arrive in the United States and that creates a very small...
  • Desmond Tutu in Independent Online
    If His Holiness's visa is refused, then I won't take part in the coming 2010 World Cup-related peace conference,Tutu said.

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