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Originally Posted by dradeel
Er, not quite... 
A passport is the evidence you hold to be able to prove that you are the one you are and are originally only given in the country you're a citizen/born in. You can apply for citizenship in another country and recieve a new passport, but that means you have to live in the country for a lotta years, and often means you have to have a family there as well. 
Also, without a passport you can't (well, more like shouldn't. Hehe.) travel on holidays outside the border of your own country. You don't need a visa to go on a holiday - well, it's not a rule without exceptions at least. Hahaha. And I doubt you'll ever get a visa somewhere without a legit passport...
A visa is something you have to apply for at the embassy of the country you wish to visit, meaning it's the country you wish to go to that gives you the visa. Visas are given if you wanna live in a country for a longer period of time... I think most western countries give student visas to fellow western countries that allows you to study for the given time and have a job with a maximum wage.
I believe you can apply for a student visa like that in the U.S. (at least if you come from Norway... hehe) I read about it, as I have wondered about studying in the states. |
I was not going into technicalities. I understand they are different. - My point I was trying to make is that ANY time you enter another country - you get these papers/documents from the country you wish to visit. Not the country you reside in.