UK visa application query

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From an immigration advisor in the UK:

It depends who you are talking to.

Entry clearance means the sticker in a passport granting someone permission to come to the UK for a specific purpose.

Technically a visa is entry clearance for a visa national. A visa national is someone travelling on one of the passports listed in Appendix 2 of Immigration Rules Appendix V: visitor rules. Entry clearance for a non-visa national is just called entry clearance.

However is common daily speech, β€œvisa” is used to mean all kind of permission to be in the UK, including an actual visa as defined above, entry clearance in general, a residence permit showing leave to remain, or leave to enter granted on a stamp for a non-visa national visitor.

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