Permanent residency is a person's legal resident status in a country or territory of which such person is not a citizen but where they have the right to reside on a permanent basis.
Visitor visas are nonimmigrant visas for persons who want to enter the another country for business, for tourism, or for a combination of both purposes.
A Tourist visa is granted to a foreigner whose sole objective of visiting India is recreation, sight seeing, casual visit to meet friends or relatives, attending a short term yoga programme etc.
A family visa generally refers to a type of visa that allows individuals to join or reunite with their family members who are residing in a foreign country.