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A passport is a travel document issued by a national government that usually identifies the bearer as a national of the issuing state and requests that the bearer be permitted to enter and pass through other countries. Passports are connected with the right of legal protection abroad and the right to enter one's country of nationality. Passports usually contain the holder's photograph, signature, date of birth, nationality, and sometimes other means of individual identification. Many countries are in the process of developing biometric properties for their passports in order to further confirm that the person presenting the passport is the legitimate holder. A visa (short for the Latin carta visa, lit. "the document having been seen") is a document issued by a country giving a certain individual permission to formally request entrance to the country during a given period of time and for certain purposes (see below for caveats and exceptions). Most countries require possession of a ...
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A Passport is a document issued by the National government for anyone that travels to identify them by their name, date of birth, sex and there place of birth. Their nationality is also included in a passport for identification and citizen ship. This will not guarantee enter of any country, but it will give you a way back to the country that issued it, a passport is very important while traveling without one you might be stuck in a foreign country.
A Visa is used when anyone who is a citizen of another country wants to enter the United States. A Visa can be attained at the Embassy of the country that you wish to travel. Even attaining a Visa might not grant you entry into a different country, but it could allow you to travel to a port of enter like an airport, Department of Homeland Security, and Customs and Border Protection. There are two types of Visa’s that you can attain to make entry into the United States. Nonimmigration Visa, This visa is for someone that is not planning to move to the U.S. but instead planning on visiting the United States. Some of the people that would choose to get this form of visa are Foreign Exchange Students, Athletes, Religious Workers, and someone that is going on a vacation. The other visa is an immigrant visa; these are used if you are planning to move to the United States permanently. To get this form of Visa you have to be sponsored by a US citizen or by a prospective employer that is a US citizen. They will send a petition to the Us Citizenship and Immigration Services to wait to be approved.
In short a passport is a document used to prove ones identity, where as a Visa can be used to gain entry into another country either to live permanently or just to visit, but both are needed for travel to another country.
Here is an example of a Passport/Visa
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