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When people are issued a VISA to travel. What does the acronym VISA stand for ?

Ron S

A visa (short for the Latin carta visa, lit. "the document having been seen")

According to wikipedia, anyway.

Stan P

It is not an acronym. It is its own word in English, the same as it is in French, Spanish, Latin and others.

A D

try this website

my take on it goes back to the military

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