The Eurosceptics argue that Iceland already gets most of the benefits of full membership through existing free trade arrangements with the EU and by being part the Schengen visa-free travel zone.
Yet so far only Slovenia (exceptionally small, rich and well-run) has gained visa-free travel to America.
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But Brazil, Namibia, Malaysia, Botswana, Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius continued to enjoy visa-free access for short visits.
In the next few weeks Bosnians and Albanians are expected to be granted visa-free travel to Europe's Schengen area.
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Most (Poland is a big, rankling exception) also have visa-free travel to America.
They dearly want the European Union to grant visa-free travel to Macedonians this year (and then open membership talks).
They agree on the main issues facing the country: job creation, visa-free travel for their citizens and faster European integration.
But the row could hinder its attempt to be granted visa-free travel within the Schengen area of 25 European countries.
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Apart from withdrawing yet more funds, the EU could also delay Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen visa-free travel zone, planned for 2011-12.
Russia's wish list includes visa-free travel, the adoption of EU standards and membership of the World Trade Organisation and the OECD rich-country club.
It will also send a strong message to Bosnians and Albanians that their governments need to do more to win visa-free travel too.
It has also put forward a list of 14 big items, from trade concessions to visa-free travel, that it wants brought into the negotiations.
Kosovo still does not have an international telephone dialling code - and, unlike other Balkan countries, its citizens cannot travel visa-free to the European Union.
In exchange they are being tempted with the offer of visa-free travel to most EU countries, candidate status for the EU and full NATO membership.
We do have visa-free travel regime with the entire European Union.
Macedonians and maybe Montenegrins may get visa-free travel early next year.
To them, convergence with Europe is not about values but interests, which include a visa-free regime and access to property, bank accounts, yachts for the elite and protection from Russia.
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Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed the decision to keep visa-free access for Brazilian tourists at Prime Minister's Questions, after a Lib Dem MP, John Thurso, warned imposing restrictions could harm the tourist trade.
Kosovo is seen to have made only limited progress, although there is a chance its government may soon start talking to the EU about visa-free access to the 25-strong Schengen area later this year.
In contrast, in a regional based visa a worker would be free to work for any employer within the region.
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For many of the students, enthusiasm for studying in the land of the free is tempered by fears about the difficulty of getting a visa.
In order to free up those green cards, the legislation eliminates the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program which sets aside visas for countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
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