Top 45 Visa Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Visa Quotes from famous people such as Sofia Vergara, Gary Johnson, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Sam Graves, Nastia Liukin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always

When I travel abroad, because I’m Columbian, I’m always one that they check twice and security and I’m the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.
Sofia Vergara
We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa – not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.
Gary Johnson
Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
If we don’t enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
Sam Graves
The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying ‘Destiny.’ For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
Nastia Liukin
So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
Anna Louise Strong
I tend to discourage people from calling me ‘Sir Ian,’ because I don’t like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you’re writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They’re impressed by these things.
Ian Mckellen
I have watched Muslims chant ‘Death to America!’ on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States.
Reza Aslan
The H-1B visa is called the ‘genius visa’ for a reason.
Michio Kaku
Without much money, I traveled to Argentina to see the meat industry, and after that, I wanted to travel to the United States, but I was refused a visa 5 or 6 times, but I never gave up.
Salt Bae
You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who’s struggling, basically – who’s had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can’t start companies.
Vivek Wadhwa
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
Bob Goodlatte
I was lucky to find a way to get a visa as an independent worker, which is hard to do. On top of that, I do live in the States, which means I’m not ‘taking my skills back to Canada.’
Laurel Van Ness
The first time I applied for a U.S. visa, I was rejected. I continued to apply again and again over the course of two years and finally received my visa on the ninth try.
Eric Yuan
For clubs, free movement plays a big role in transfers and players’ contracts. Players from the E.U. can sign for U.K. clubs without needing a visa or special work permit, making it quicker and easier to secure top talent from across Europe to come and play in our leagues.
Karren Brady
I was just wondering if I’d ever get a visa to go to the U.S. Probably not.
Katharine Gun
I actually got a visa through a job that fell through, and it allowed me to move out here and start from scratch. There’s more opportunity in America for girls like me, I guess.
Danielle Macdonald
In Europe they love me. I travel so much, I change my passport twice a year because there aren’t enough pages for all the places I go. Foreign countries invite me to come without a visa.
Demis Roussos
Although I wasn’t able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
Tony Hillerman
Two of the 9/11 hijackers exploited the security vulnerabilities in the United States’ visa program and were able to carry out their attacks.
Mark Meadows
Immigrants play a huge role in the founding and value creation of today’s tech companies. We wonder how much more value could be created if it were easier to get a work visa.
Aileen Lee
To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn’t require a visa.
Abbas Kiarostami
You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn’t work. You need a guest workers program.
Kevin McCarthy
Then I went to Australia on a student visa to figure out the next episode in my life and settle there. When nothing seemed to work out, I started driving a taxi to make ends meet.
Harrdy Sandhu
I don’t have a visa. The only thing I can do where I can leave the country and come back is if I get married.
David Dobrik
The whole idea behind the EB-5 visa was to help create jobs in economically disadvantaged areas. But where big bucks are involved, corruption soon follows, and with Chuck Schumer and the EB-5 visa program, you need to follow the money.
Wendy Long
You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you’ll be treated as very, very much illegal.
Tony Abbott
My parents and I entered the U.S. legally, but when it was time for our visa extension, we were turned down. Returning to China meant imprisonment for my father and persecution for my family. We were days from being forced to live here illegally when we were granted political asylum. Other families are not so lucky.
Leana S. Wen
I carry cash around with me all the time as I like buying dancers I’m working with snacks and drinks, but I also use my Amex card and a Coutts Visa card, which I always pay off in full every month. I hate the idea of being in debt.
Arlene Phillips
I would give illegal immigrants already here a three-month grace period to apply for a temporary worker’s visa. If they failed to apply within that time frame, they would be considered fugitives, and they would be found and deported.
Chuck Norris
Indeed, many immigrants do not even desire U.S. citizenship, preferring a work visa that would allow them to work seasonally and to legally cross the border into their home country as needed.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
If we value children and family, there's a great need f

If we value children and family, there’s a great need for change, and we should try immigration reform – create a path for citizenship for people already here, update the visa system.
Diane Guerrero
Getting small things like Visa or driving licence should be made easier as we, in financial service sectors, are dealing with financial regulations and tax constraints.
Chanda Kochhar
Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to.
Vivek Wadhwa
How can I care about needing a visa to travel if the furthest I’m going to travel is the town centre? For a person to care about Brexit – it’s only for people who are in a certain state of mind.
Big Narstie
I was pretty good at studies and when I had come to NSD for my interview, I’d lied that I have got a scholarship to study abroad. I told my family that I had a visa interview, but I was actually here for the interview at NSD.
Himani Shivpuri
The swipe fee reform law that Congress enacted in 2010 was a huge step forward in bringing transparency, competition, and choice to a debit card system that had been rigged by Visa, MasterCard, and the banks.
Dick Durbin
I don’t have a visa for the U.S., and I don’t want to apply for one. And I don’t want to fly for that long.
Jean-Luc Godard
We think Facebook and Google know a lot about us – who knows more about us than AmEx, MasterCard and Visa? They know exactly what we spend and where we spent it… so they’re looking at ways to unlock it.
Anthony Goldbloom
I was originally granted a visa for people of extraordinary abilities, then got a green card thanks to my modelling background and now I am officially an American with dual nationality.
Keeley Hazell
It’s really hard as a Canadian actor to make a footprint in the States, because of the visa stuff.
Shenae Grimes
I spent two years living in London – I’d have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
Lady Starlight
After Hurricane Sandy, we adopted 19 elementary schools in tough neighborhoods. We took each kid in those schools and gave the family a prepaid Visa card.
Howard Lutnick
In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.
Michelle Malkin
When I was working abroad, there was a time when I almost gave up because of my problem with my working visa in Canada. I remember that I collected bottles of mineral water and sold them to earn extra money.
Coco Martin