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Visa policy of Canada
Visa policy of Canada: IRCC rules requiring a temporary resident visa (visitor visa) or eTA for foreign nationals. Covers visa-exempt Schedule 1.1 nationals, the 2023 eTA expansion to 13 countries, and the 40-criterion Visa Policy Framework.
Visa policy of the United Arab Emirates
Visa policy of the United Arab Emirates: GCC citizens enter visa-free; listed nationalities get visa on arrival (up to 90 days); others need sponsored entry visas. Golden (10-year), Green (5-year), and Blue residencies; June 2026 expanded visa on arrival to six nationalities with foreign residence permits.
Visa requirements for Albanian citizens
Visa requirements for Albanian citizens: Schengen visa-free travel since 15 December 2010 for biometric passports, 90/180-day stays, EUR 35 facilitation fee, UK and Ireland visa-required, ETIAS from late 2026.
Visa requirements for Colombian citizens
Visa requirements for Colombian citizens: EU Schengen visa waiver since 2015 (90/180 days), UK visa required since November 2024 after ETA removal, US visa required, Henley 2026 rank 38 with 130 visa-free destinations.
Visa requirements for German citizens
Visa requirements for German citizens: Schengen freedom of movement, passport rules, the UK ETA (mandatory since 2025/2026), upcoming ETIAS, and Germany's 4th-place Henley Passport Index rank with 188 visa-free destinations.
Visa requirements for Israeli citizens
Visa requirements for Israeli citizens: entry rules for Israel itself, Henley and Passport Index visa-free scores, US Visa Waiver Program ESTA access, UAE and Kosovo waivers, and countries refusing Israeli passports.
Visa requirements for Malaysian citizens
Visa requirements for Malaysian citizens: entry rules other countries apply to Malaysian passport holders plus Malaysia's own departure rules. Malaysians rank 7th on Henley 2026 with visa-free access to 183 destinations; Japan and Schengen are visa-free, the US requires a visa.
Visa requirements for Pakistani citizens
Visa requirements for Pakistani citizens: entry rules facing Pakistani passport holders, ranked near the bottom of the Henley Passport Index (101st, July 2026) with visa-free, visa-on-arrival or eTA access to about 29 destinations, down from 79th in 2006.
Visa requirements for Sri Lankan citizens
Visa requirements for Sri Lankan citizens: the entry rules other states impose on Sri Lankan passport holders. Henley rank 95th, 39 visa-free destinations, no Schengen access; UK, US, and EU visas required; Singapore, Maldives, Nepal accessible regionally.
Vita Food Products Inc v Unus Shipping Co Ltd
Vita Food Products Inc v Unus Shipping Co Ltd [1939] AC 277, a 1939 Privy Council case, upheld an express choice of English law with no England connection, holding choice-of-law clauses valid if bona fide, legal, and not against public policy.
Vitaly Kaloyev (Виталий Константинович Калоев)
Vitaly Kaloyev (Виталий Константинович Калоев), Russian architect who killed Skyguide controller Peter Nielsen in 2004 after losing his family in the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision; convicted, released 2007, later North Ossetian deputy minister.
Vitel'Homme Innocent
Vitel'Homme Innocent (born 1986) is a Haitian gang leader heading Kraze Barye in Port-au-Prince, a Viv Ansanm figure, FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, UN-sanctioned, facing US hostage-taking charges and a $2 million reward.
Vito Corleone
Vito Corleone (Don Corleone) is the fictional Sicilian-born Mafia patriarch of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and Coppola's films, played by Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro, head of a New York crime family succeeded by his son Michael.
Vito Genovese
Vito "Don Vito" Genovese (1897–1969), Italian-born American Mafia boss, underboss to Lucky Luciano, later boss of the New York family bearing his name; convicted of narcotics conspiracy in 1959 and linked to the 1957 Apalachin raid.
Vito Rizzuto
Vito Rizzuto (1946–2013), Montreal's "Teflon Don," led the Sicilian Rizzuto crime family that dominated Montreal organized crime. Extradited to the U.S. in 2006 for the 1981 Bonanno triple murder, he served six years, returned, and died of natural causes in 2013.
Vittorio Scialoja
Vittorio Scialoja (1856–1933) was an Italian jurist and politician who brought the German concept of the negozio giuridico into Italian private law, led early work on the 1942 Civil Code, and served as foreign minister.
Vizconde murders
Vizconde murders (Vizconde massacre): killings of Estrellita, Carmela, and Jennifer Vizconde in Parañaque, Philippines, June 1991; Hubert Webb and six others convicted in 2000, acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2010; case remains unsolved.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Влади́мир Во́льфович Жирино́вский)
Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Владимир Жириновский), born Vladimir Eidelshtein, 1946-2022, founded and led Russia's LDPR from 1990, sat in all eight State Dumas, ran for president six times, and died in Moscow in April 2022.
Void marriage
Void marriage: a marriage legally invalid from the start (void ab initio), unlike a voidable marriage valid until annulled; grounds include bigamy, incest, under-age parties; US, UK, and comparative law.
Voidable marriage
Voidable marriage: a marriage valid until a court annuls it by decree of nullity, also called annulable marriage. Distinguished from a void marriage, which was never valid; grounds include lack of consent, non-consummation, and mental incapacity.
Voir dire
Voir dire, French for "to speak the truth," is the pretrial questioning of prospective jurors by judges or lawyers to determine suitability, and of witnesses such as experts; it leads to challenges for cause and peremptory challenges limited by Batson.
Voiron
Voiron, Isère town in the Dauphiné, France; Savoyard until the Treaty of Paris of 5 January 1355 made it delphinal. Known for the Tour Barral, Église Saint-Bruno, and Notre-Dame-de-Vouise.
Volcker Rule
The Volcker Rule, also known as the Volcker plan, is a 2010 United States banking regulation barring banks from proprietary trading and from sponsoring hedge funds.
Volenti non fit injuria
Volenti non fit injuria, Latin for "to a willing person, no injury is done", is a complete tort defense barring recovery by a claimant who knowingly and voluntarily accepted a risk; basis of assumption of risk, now narrowed in most common-law jurisdictions.
Voluntary manslaughter
Voluntary manslaughter, also called nonnegligent manslaughter, is an intentional killing reduced from murder because it occurred in the heat of passion or on legally adequate provocation.
Voyeurism
Voyeurism: sexual arousal from secretly watching unsuspecting people naked, disrobing, or in sexual activity; a paraphilia distinct from voyeuristic disorder (DSM-5-TR, ICD-11 6D31), criminalized as video voyeurism and upskirting in many countries.
Vriend v Alberta
Vriend v Alberta, [1998] 1 SCR 493, is the Supreme Court of Canada decision reading sexual orientation into Alberta's Individual's Rights Protection Act after Delwin Vriend was fired from King's College for being gay.
Vyapam scam
The Vyapam scam (Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal) was a Madhya Pradesh professional examination and recruitment fraud involving impersonators, leaked papers, and OMR manipulation; over 2,000 arrests, dozens of linked deaths, and a Supreme Court-ordered CBI probe from 2015.
W. D. Jones
W. D. Jones (William Daniel Jones) was a Barrow Gang member who rode with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow from November 1932 to August 1933, was captured in November 1933, and later gave a 1933 Dallas police statement and a 1968 Playboy account.
W. E. Davis
W. E. Davis, also known as W. Eugene Davis, is an American jurist on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1983, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.