can anyone tell me the similarity between Visa credit card and Visa required to travel in another country?

Question

I just want to know that (The names are almost same VISA)

are they the same companies or stuff like that?

Answer 1

Visa is a brand name for a financial products company (that does credit cards, debit and prepaid cards, processing and authentication services, etc.). The originating product was the BankAmericard from Bank of America, launched in 1958. Bank of America transferred the BankAmericard to National BankAmericard, Inc. (NBI) in 1970. http://corporate.visa.com/av/corp_history.jsp "In 1976, NBI changed the BankAmericard name to Visa, a simple, memorable name that is pronounced the same way in every language"

A visa is an application to enter a foreign country through a given port. Often they are categorized as immigrant or non-immigrant. Whether you'll need one will depend on what country you are travelling to, why you are entering the country, and for what amount of time you will be staying there. Upon presenting the visa at the port of entry, the immigrations official will then decide if you are permitted to enter.
To the US: http://www.unitedstatesvisas.gov/whatis/index.html
http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1750.html
For US citizens traveling abroad: http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/brochures/brochures_1229.html

Answer 2

A visa lets you visit another country. Think of it as a temporary passport. These have been in use for at least 200 years.
A Visa card is a credit card that was started much later than the travel visa. They named it that because they hoped you would eventually be able to use it anywhere you might be able to travel with a visa.

Answer 3

The travel document, Visa (a short for the Latin carta visa, lit. "the document having been seen") is a document issued by a country giving a certain individual permission to formally request entrance to the country during a given period of time and for certain purposes.

While Visa is a brand of credit card and debit card operated by the Visa International Service Association of San Francisco, California, USA, an economic joint venture of 21,000 financial institutions that issue and market Visa products.

The term Visa was conceived by the company's founder, Dee Hock. He believed that the word was instantly recognizable in many languages in many countries, and that it also denoted universal acceptance. Nowadays, the term VISA has become a backronym for Visa International Service Association.

Answer 4

Visa is the processor of the credit card. It's a company name.

A visa is a document.

They chose the word "visa" for their card as a marketing message, something like "this card will allow you to go many places."

Answer 5

a visa for a country is a statement by that country that they have checked you out and agreed to let you in to their country

visa, as in credit cards, is a worldwide computer system for processing financial transactions

Answer 6

Only the spelling