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Does this sentence below sound natural? If not, would you correct the sentence?
If you can't receive a visa during your stay with your current visa, you must leave our country by the expiration date of your current visa.
Mar 14, 2023 10:31 AM
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I’m not sure that we’d say receive, perhaps we’d use ‘get.’ If you can’t get a visa during your stay in our country then you must leave/have left by the expiration date on your current visa. Something like this.
March 14, 2023
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The phrase "can't receive" doesn't sound quite natural. A suggested alternative: "If you don't receive (an updated/a new) visa...". Another alternative: "If you can't get (an updated/a new) visa...". The latter suggestion is slightly less formal, and it may be more specifically idiomatic to American English, but I think in American English the second example is what most people would say. The rest of it sounds natural.
March 14, 2023
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I agree with Joshua. We would say "get". Good luck!
March 14, 2023
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