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for a summit on enhancing discussions with African
leaders on trade and investment relations.
Passports or other forms of national identity documents
from certain countries not only afford visa-free travel to
other countries but may also afford automatic rights of
settlement in other countries. Citizens of Iceland, a far-off
country in the north Atlantic Ocean, for instance, not only
get through fast-track immigration counters in Germany
made for EEA nationals, but also have automatic and
undeniable rights to reside and work in Germany. Citizens
of member states of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
—Saudi Arabia, for example — can enjoy accelerated
immigration at an airport of another GCC member state,
such as Dubai’s. Meanwhile, the citizens of a European
country with one of the most powerful passports may not
enjoy this luxury at the same airport.
PASSPORT PRIVILEGES VARY
Citizens of different countries can enjoy privileges in
their own countries which are afforded to them by virtue
of their nationality — a link with the host state. But these
people, at international borders, are recognized and
treated based on their passport power. Nationals of
certain countries enjoy privileges of visa-free entry into
a great number of destinations around the world, as if
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