The number of business visas from all over the world, including countries where there is a visa regime, has gone up.
That will mean cajoling Bosnian leaders with a mix of carrots (eg, an easier visa regime) and sticks (eg, no further progress towards membership talks).
On May 24th the two countries are expected to ease a tight visa regime, allowing multiple-entry visas and access beyond each country's three largest cities.
That is the bitter experience of loyal Atlanticists in eastern Europe, who have been waiting for America's visa regime to lift ever since the iron curtain fell.
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In order to give our bilateral relations a new quality, we intend to pay special attention to broadening contacts between our peoples and societies, including by liberalizing the visa regime.
Russia has threatened trade sanctions and a visa regime for Moldovans in a row over Trans-Dniester, a region populated mainly by Russians and Ukrainians which broke away from Moldova in 1992.
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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We do have visa-free travel regime with the entire European Union.
The core problem is the United States lacks a reliable visa or work permit regime to allow individuals from Mexico and Central America to work legally in the United States at lower skilled jobs.
Forty-five thousand Iraqis had officially registered as refugees, and more were signing up every day, amid reports that the Syrian regime was about to tighten its visa policy and had begun turning people back at the border.
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