visas

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of visa.

   The consulate processed a record number of student visas this spring.

   Both work and tourist visas were delayed by the new screening rules.

   Note

   A regular -s plural that serves the travel permit and both card meanings alike: student visas, tourist visas, or the visas in a wallet. The bacterial initialism VISA is uncountable and takes no plural. The same spelling also does duty as the verb form for 'endorses', so in 'the office visas passports' the word is a verb, not a noun.

2. 2
   verbdated

   Third-person singular simple present of visa.

   The consular officer visas every application that meets the entry requirements.

   This embassy visas travel documents only after a personal interview.

   Note

   Here the spelling belongs to a dated verb meaning 'to endorse,' as an official endorses a passport. It is transitive and needs an object: an embassy visas a document, and the word does not stand alone. Because the verb has grown dated, most readers will take visas as the plural noun first. In ordinary prose, 'issues a visa for' usually reads more naturally.

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