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Multiple-entry visa

Meaning in immigration & visas, with examples

nounCommon term

In immigration & visas, multiple-entry visa means: A visa that lets you enter and leave a country as many times as you like while it is valid, as long as you follow the limits on length of stay.

In Turkish: çok girişli vize

How it is used

The opposite is a single-entry visa, which ends once you leave the country. Visa stickers show the number of entries as 1, 2 or MULT. Frequent business travellers and people with family abroad often ask for a multiple-entry visa.

Example sentences

  1. The consulate gave me a two-year multiple-entry visa because of my travel history.

  2. Check whether your visa is single-entry or multiple-entry before you plan a side trip.

Common collocations

  • multiple-entry visa
  • single-entry visa
  • number of entries
  • double-entry visa
  • Schengen visaA short-stay visa for the Schengen Area, a group of European countries that have removed regular passport checks at their shared borders.
  • transit visaA visa that some travellers need just to pass through a country on the way to another one, for example when changing planes.
  • business visaA short-stay visa for business activities such as meetings, conferences, negotiations or training, which normally does not allow local employment.
  • validOfficially accepted and still in force, not expired or cancelled; used for passports, visas, permits and tickets.

More terms: Visa Types

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