Whois & Analysis for visahq.com

VisaHQ is an international online passport and visa services company.

History.

VisaHQ was founded in the US 2003 to provide travelers with information on travel regulations, as well as US passports and foreign visas.

In 2008, VisaHQ expanded its services to cover Canada and in 2010 it expanded to cover the United Kingdom.

They were ranked as an Inc. magazine 5,000 fastest growing company in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Inc. also ranked them in the travel industry's top-20, awarding them the number 1 position in the D.C. metro area.

A visa (from the Latin charta visa, meaning "paper which has been seen") is a conditional authorization granted by a country to a foreigner, allowing them to enter and temporarily remain within, or to leave that country.

Visas typically include limits on the duration of the foreigner's stay, territory within the country they may enter, the dates they may enter, the number of permitted visits or an individual's right to work in the country in question.

Visas are associated with the request for permission to enter a country and thus are, in some countries, distinct from actual formal permission for an alien to enter and remain in the country.

In each instance, a visa is subject to entry permission by an immigration official at the time of actual entry and can be revoked at any time.

A passport is a travel document, usually issued by a country's government, that certifies the identity and nationality of its holder for the purpose of international travel.

Standard passports may contain information such as the holder's name, place and date of birth, photograph, signature, and other identifying information.

Passports are moving towards including biometric information in a microchip embedded in the document, making them machine-readable and difficult to counterfeit.

Information technology (IT) is the application of computers to store, study, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology (ICT).

In 2012, Zuppo proposed an ICT hierarchy where each hierarchy level "contain[s] some degree of commonality in that they are related to technologies that facilitate the transfer of information and various types of electronically mediated communications.".