The residence permit is intended to allow the entry into the country so that the holder can apply for a residence permit. Indeed, one of the general requirements for granting the temporary residence permit provided , which requires a residence visa for one of the purposes provided by law, the requirement set out of that provision.
The bureaucratic process for a residence visa is an important instrument of control and verification of the conditions for obtaining the right of residence, in particular how much proof of its purpose, the means of subsistence, absence of entry impediments, etc. Hence, despite the residence visa is only one of the requirements for obtaining a residence permit, often confuse this requirement with the very right of residence the which are not true, approached the reality, since with his approval is exceeded the greatest obstacle to realization of the right.
The residence visa allows the holder to stay for a period of four months and is valid for two entries . The four-month period seeks to take into account the duration of the process bureaucratic granting of residence permits. Although an application for a residence permit should in principle be decided within 60 days, the same only runs from the time when it completes its investigation of the case which, even by the applicants own difficulties, it may take some time. Hence, it seems reasonable that period, the same can be said of posibiity of their use for two entries.
