Second, the sticker visa Currently, most countries in the world have adopted a sticker visa. The visa sticker uses a certain anti-counterfeit design and is printed using a computer system. In order to prevent being exposed, more powerful adhesives, photos, or laser anti-counterfeiting labels are used to enhance tamper-evident and anti-counterfeiting performance.
Third, biometric visa (bio-visa)
The use of facial features, fingerprints and other biometric information to enhance visa anti-counterfeiting performance and improve the identification of visa holders. Most of the biometric visas use a dedicated network to share data between the issuing agency and the border inspection immigration department. Biometric visas do not replace sticker visas. They complement each other.
Fourth, e-visa (e-visa)
Also known as sticker-free visas. Electronic visas require strong intranet support. After the applicant has obtained the license information (if he is notified in writing), he can enter the country directly with his passport. The e-visa completely replaced the complicated procedures for printing and pasting sticker visas. Australia has implemented electronic visas in our country.
Fifth, the card visa APEC business travel card, Olympic Games, Asian Games identity registration card is essentially a visa. Unlike stamps and sticker visas, it has taken the form of a passport as a carrier and instead has added information such as identities, passports and visas on the cards. Such documents usually need to be used in conjunction with passports.
VI. Chip Visas Europe and the United States have tried to issue chip-based visas, but they have been clashing with the gradual passage of electronic passport chips. It is not ruled out that countries may agree on the issue of visas directly in the e-passport chip in the future. By then, you will no longer need to take a passport that is full of visas when you go abroad. It may be a credit card-sized passport and visa. However, such visas are subject to the e-passport promotion process and there is still a long way to go.
In the 21st century, the trend of economic globalization has not dismantled the invisible barriers of the country. Strengthening the control of entry and exit requires the development of science and technology, and visa forms will be more diversified.
Can biometric visas replace sticker visas?
I. Sealed Visas Traditional visas are produced by manually or semi-automatically stamping passport visa pages. The disadvantage is that the production is time-consuming and laborious. At the same time, due to the poor anti-counterfeiting performance, it is usually assisted by hand-signing and other means. Because of the low cost, seal visas are still used by some less developed countries.