Take getting in: buy 1m — one-thousandth of the wealth of the 'poorest' billionaire — of government bonds and you'll get a three-year investor visa.

The committee outlined a series of reforms, including doubling the minimum amount for an investor visa to 2 million.

In addition to the 530 investor visas, a further 1,038 visas were issued for applicants' dependents.

Ministers are also to consult on whether investor visas should be issued to entrants who endow universities, schools or hospitals.

In the past year, 1,018 rich foreigners have been granted investor visas.

The couple decided to make the move but the visa process took too long.

This will process your visa documentation, fill in the forms, queue at the relevant embassy for you and even get passport snaps taken.

The system had been intended to streamline the visa process by processing information provided by applicants and assigning them a risk rating.

The visa process for foreign entrepreneurs has been criticised by those who want to apply and by those who review them.

The visa process may take time but his right to stay in the country will be stronger if it's not done via a hasty marriage.

She denies abandoning them and says she could not secure a visa for the sisters to join her.

The day before she was set to leave, officials discovered she did not have all the documents required to secure a visa.

The minimum annual pay required to secure a visa changes according to the number and nature of applicants, and has doubled since last year as demand has grown.

When they do agree to come, securing a visa can be difficult, with the coalition having restricted their availability.

The change was designed to crack down on 'sham' marriages carried out for purposes such as securing a visa.

The individuals added to the visa ban hail largely from the business sector and the military.

Individuals and companies face visa bans and asset freezes.

All are subject to visa bans and a freeze on their foreign assets.

The government will also attach amendments to the sanctions bill that ensure visa bans and asset freezes on those suspected of having committed human rights violations.

One we've spotted involves visa processing.

The program provided insight into the types of fraud directed at overseas visa processing, the report adds.

Outsourcing visa processing to the private sector in 2007 worsened the problem, diplomats say.

These messages prompt the recipients to transfer a visa processing fee as a prerequisite for obtaining a guaranteed green card.

The minimum daily package required for visa processing covers accommodation, food, guide and vehicle with driver.

It has launched an inquiry into his visa status to determine whether he has breached his entry conditions.

Then he asks me out - but only on condition of my visa status.

But she lost her passport in 2006 - and with it the stamp proving her visa status.

An identity card that, where relevant, contained a holder's visa status would make this process a lot easier.

The palace refused to give any details about her visa status.

As accreditation acts as a visa waiver, the process must be vigorous.

Normally if you make one little mistake on your visa waiver form you are sent to the back of a three-hour queue.

But he said that the impulse of both governments had been to 'try to solve the problem to-gether' otherwise 'the visa waiver programme would have gone'.

Visa waiver must be satisfactorily addressed and resolved at long last.

Eligibility for the visa waiver may be withdrawn at any time.

But through a miracle, my friend helped me to get a visitor visa for six months, and my niece got me a plane ticket.

In future those refused a visitor visa must re-apply rather than appeal.

The vast majority, 1.9 million, were visitor visas.

In 2010, a total of 423,000 applications were made for family visitor visas and 338,000 were approved.

He used that application as a basis for a new attempt to get a student visa, as opposed to the visitor visa he had sought previously.

He later obtained a special immigrant religious worker visa.

He has also proposed streamlining the temporary worker visa issuance system so that temporary agricultural and tourism workers could be processed more efficiently.

The skilled worker visas last for up to five years.

Skilled worker visas will be awarded to those who gain enough points.

Most foreign religious workers are granted temporary 3-month missionary worker visas.