The phrase "delay a visit" is correct and can be used in written English.
Example: I had to delay my visit to my parents' house because of the unexpected snowstorm.
The government shake-up forced Mr. Chirac to delay a visit to Russia by a day.
In 1994, hip surgery forced him to postpone a trip to the United States; in 1999, a bout of influenza obliged him to delay a visit to Armenia.
Tell us about the time she hid your car keys behind your rarely used exercise bike to delay a visit to the vet.
Another interview study reported that although costs might delay a visit to the doctor until absolutely necessary, the expenses involved with the visit and with any prescribed medicines were not a concern for the majority of the participants [ 3].
Options for Men and Children For men with cancer, the solution is usually simple and involves little delay: a visit to a sperm bank where a semen sample can be obtained.
(AP) THE AMERICAS CANADA, INDIA: ARRESTS DELAY A VISIT Tensions in Vancouver's Sikh community since arrests of two Sikh suspects in the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet prompted the chief minister of Punjab State, Parkash Singh Badal, to cancel a visit to British Columbia this week.
In Moscow, meanwhile, an official at the Iranian Embassy said that Mr. Ahmadinejad had delayed a visit to Russia that was to have started Monday.
One London patient was left with permanent damage to her sight after delaying a visit to A&E because she thought no doctors would be working at weekends.
President Pervez Musharraf delayed a visit to China for a day, the Foreign Ministry said, as opponents in the coalition government consulted over his possible impeachment.
But the South China Morning Post reported that Hu Jintao, the president, was in enough of a huff about this and other slights to contemplate delaying a visit to America.
The escalation comes amid a blast of belligerent discourse in China and as the Obama administration has delayed a visit to Washington requested by Shinzo Abe, the new prime minister of Japan, the United States' main ally in Asia.
