The phrase "applying to enter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of submitting an application to gain access or admission to a program, institution, or event.
Example: "I am applying to enter the graduate program in psychology at the university."
Alternatives: "submitting an application for entry" or "requesting admission to".
Visa policy is much to blame: applying to enter Britain is costly and time-consuming.
After a federal court ruling, Texas ended racial preferences at state schools beginning with students applying to enter in the fall of 1997.
She had to drop the engineering program and take classes undeclared, as well as learning how to code, before applying to enter the computer science program.
Uhr is applying to enter medical school in the next year and wants to pursue a specialty related to the brain: either anesthesiology or neurology.
But many of the largest groups, such as Somalis, applying to enter Britain and other rich countries as refugees are not facing individual persecution but rather are caught up in regional conflicts or civil wars or even natural disasters.
In an unprecedented move, the Islamists have endorsed the unpopular measures deemed necessary to revive the economy: higher prices for petrol and diesel fuel; an end to the payment of wages during industrial action by public-sector employees; compulsory tests for all unemployed graduates applying to enter the civil service.
"There are millions of people who have applied to enter this country legally," Mr. Rubio said.
At the end of September 2011, the CSA's caseload stood at 1.14m – all of whom would have to re-apply to enter the "new CSA" and pay the charges.
Responding to criticism, the Dominican Republic created "regularization" programs, predicting more than 100,000 people would apply to enter a process of waiting periods, forms and "auditing".
