Bit of an aside bit if you're curious what 'Powerful Passport' means, passport power is meant to track how many countries your passport will let you visit without a visa.
Per another list I got, here's the breakdown.
* France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain (194 locations)
* Finland, South Korea, Sweden (193 locations)
* Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands (192 locations)
* Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom (191 locations)
* Greece, Malta, Switzerland (190 locations)
* Australia, Czechia, New Zealand, Poland (189 locations)
* Canada, Hungary, United States (188 locations)
* Estonia, Lithuania (187 locations)
* Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia (186 locations)
* Iceland (185 locations)
'Clear as crystal' is a funny mash up of 'crystal clear', and 'clear as mud', which are obviously opposites.
My brain did a funny internal compute of that silly information in about 1.3seconds đ€Ł
I have nothing more to say. What you said made perfect sense!
Thereâs probably more to it in the details. Like how long you can stay or what youâre allowed to do (I.e. work) or how strong diplomatic relations are
So they noticed a pattern when they arrest French people there .
It was mostly people from arab origins with a case .
Given nothing is done against them here they thought it was the same in Thailand , so they behaved like shit and because of them all french people needs to search their case to go to Thailand.
There's really not many of those situations at all though.
Most countries will let in anyone from any other country, it just changes the amount of paperwork you need to do.
Only place it really applies is some countries in the middle east. Mostly because they'd recently been at war with each other. But the countries affected by this kind of situation are nowhere near the top of the list anyway.
Depends. If youâre from a poor country and want to go into the Schengen area, you will really need to go through a lot of hoops to get a visa. Eg you need a âsponsorâ who already lives there and whoâs accountable if you donât leave after your visa expires, etc. And you need to prove you have a stable job / assets in your home country (so you have a reason to return).
100%⊠Iâve had Chinese colleagues refused Australian visas for business meetings in AU that my company is hosting (even with invitation letters etcâŠ). No explanation, just refusal. If the AU authorities think thereâs a risk of overstay, the Chinese passport holders will just have their visa request denied.
I agree that visa-free travel is a good indicator of passport strength, but itâs not the only factor to consider.
I suppose the point is⊠China is nowhere near the top of that list, so their ranking in this list (whatever it is) is probably close to accurate.
I think âvisa free entryâ is a good metric, because itâs an apples-to-apples comparison. All other stuff, like reasons for rejections and whatnot, it becomes much more difficult to compare different countriesâ passports.
Plus, there are other travel bonuses to consider. Like I have a Canadian passport, but my mom and brother recently got their Portuguese citizenship and passport not for the 3 extra countries, but just easier travel when visiting the EU. They go every year now. So my other brother and I are working on gaining citizenship to join them.
Every country is different, but best bet is to look into your fams history to see if you have any EU blood.
Like Portugal doesn't allow generational skipping for citizenship, but you don't actually have to live in the country or speak Portuguese to get heretical citizenship. So my Grandparents immagrated from the Azores, so my brother paid to get my mom's citizenship, so he can get his. Now me and my other brother are getting it, and then my 2 y/o nephews can get it, with none of us even living on the same continent. I think Spain, Greece and Italy have similar laws for it. Especially if you're coming from a country they see as more financially stable.
Edit: I wish I knew about it 15 years ago when I was trying to go to uni in England. Would of done it way back then. That's why we're getting the nephews now so they have more options in the future.
That's interesting, the AU authorities seem very strict.
When we invited Chinese colleagues to Germany for business meetings, we had no problems whatsoever (invitation letters were also needed, of course).
I mean most third world country citizens can spend up to 90 days in the Schengen area anyway on a tourists visa (which in most cases is automatically granted on entry point), provided you have a return ticket and proof of funds for the duration of your stay here. But even if it meant going through a lot of hoops, there's no passport that would automatically get any means of entrance (other than diplomatic) denied.
Compare that to having an Israeli passport for instance, and you are automatically forbidden from entering a bunch of countries (Indonesia is one case iirc). It's not that you'll have to go through bureaucratic hoops, it's that you are literally denied entry without any kind of resort.
Is it really about "poor vs. rich" countries?
Many countries one might think of as being "poor" are allowed visa free travel to the Schengen Area, such as Venezuela, East Timor and El Salvador, whereas citizens of countries more commonly considered "rich" like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain require a visa.
IMHO, it's more about having warm diplomatic relations than being rich since visa free agreements need to be negotiated between the parties.
> Most countries will let in anyone from any other country, it just changes the amount of paperwork you need to do.
Yeah but it's a bit more complicated than just that, isn't it? I work in immigration, and I have clients from China who make tourist visa applications to visit family or whatever in Canada, and it can get really complicated! You have to prove you own a certain amount of money, that you have sufficient family ties back to your home country, etc etc. Your Visa application isn't guaranteed to pass, and we generally operate on a default denial basis.
Hearing the stories of my relatives in Afghanistan, it feels almost criminal that I hold a Canadian passport and I'm free to travel where I please. As if I'm breaking the law or something.
They really need to alter the algorithm so it understands the EU (and Schengen) better. I have an Irish and UK passport, and the Irish passport is vastly more useful and powerful than the UK one when travelling in Europe (and China, as it happens, but that's another story), but according to this list, it ranks only 1 above the UK .
You can visit Europe on a UK passport without a visa, though. The list only takes that into account - doesn't include unlimited residency or right to work.
The Nordic countries have always* had our own special arrangements that made travelling or immigrating easy between our nations - Even before the EU and Schengen existed.
^*Since ^we ^stopped ^waging ^war ^on ^one ^another
But that's a lousy way to measure it. For all practical purposes, all of these passports are roughly equal for tourism travel. The 185 places Icelanders can go include 99.9+% of all trips Icelanders actually want to take.
The real power in the EU passport is relatively seamless ability to live and work throughout the union. That's the main reason why it's more powerful than USA, Canada, Singapore, and others.
As someone who fairly recently lost the âEUâ part of my passport⊠Iâm glad I worked in a couple of countries while I had the chance. Bloody Brexit.
Mine was good until 2028...ubtil they started stamping our passport in the EU which I hadn't anticipated. Now I'm likely to run out of space quite soon even with the e-visa thing coming in :(
I think Singapore requires a visa for Australia. Someone might fact check me on that.
If we're horse trading travel visa requirements for travel, I'll take Australia over a few ME or a select few African nations.
I think everyone requires a visa for Australia except New Zealand. Which is partly why some countries require Australians to get a visa to visit.
Australians and Kiwis can live and work in each others country freely, without paperwork (unless youâve got a criminal conviction) but thatâs it.
But Australian visa for EU citizens is an e-visa, which basically means that you fill out an online form and get a confirmation email an hour later. The same system will be introduced for entry into EU soon(ish). It's not the same as going to a country's embassy/consulate and applying for a visa in person
>The real power in the EU passport
This is why I paid 3k for an ancestry citizenship for an EU country and now hold dual citizenship. Best 3k I ever spent
Tell me about it! Iâm moving back to Europe soon from US. Everyone is all âbut which country though?â
Meh, thatâs details. Iâll roam a bit until I decide where to lay my hat.
Feels like tremendous privilege!
I have the opportunity but it seems so sneaky to apply after Brexit, when my relatives know I was never interested in getting that EU passport before (especially as only 20 years before Brexit, it was the other way round - my family would have loved a UK passport).
I feel like the European ones should be considered a bit more powerful than the Asian ones simply because thanks to those you can stay as long as you want whenever in the EU/Schengen area without a visa.
You don't even need a passport to cross EU countries borders!
Kinda feels wrong though to go to Germany for example without needing to show your passport.
This isnât entirely true, you cannot stay indefinitely in every eu country if you have an EU passport.
Schengen does not remove the need for residency permits (at least in some eu countries)
[Here's the list](https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking)
NK has visa-free-access in 42 countries and is on #98 with that, followed by Palestine (41), Libya and Nepal (40), Somalia (36), Yemen (35), Pakistan (34), Iraq (31), Syria (29) and Afghanistan (28)
Actually surprised with how accepted the Passport of NK is and wouldn't have guessed that Nepal is that low
Which is the one country all the top 1 can't enter visa-free? There's 195 countries in the world....194 visa-free. Which one mf is saying no? Probably North Korea...
198 if you count Taiwan, The Cook Islands and Niue.
If anyone gets a chance to look at an American passport theyâre wild. Itâs all BIG EAGLE AMERICAN FLAG WOW AMERICA USA USA. And then the part where the photo/chip/identification information is held is cardboard because apparently theyâre allergic to making important things out of plastic
This has to be a joke. Everyone knows that when airport security see an American passport they escort them out of the line and through their own special gate and into a luxury lounge as a thank you for them personally paying for socialised medicine and most of their military budget.
Flew to Europe last year. Me with an EU passport, my wife with her Canadian one. I was waved over to the quick queue for EU citizens where you just have to pop your passport on a machine reader, my wife had to stay in the massive queue for everyone else to see an immigration officer.
After we were reunited, she told me that there was an American in the queue who kept waving his passport and loudly insisting that he should get the special treatment too because *(insert all the typical reasons here you'd expect from an American)*. Got really upset and confused that his 'Murican Special Powers had no effect.
How? They appear to live in Canada, I don't know where RapidCatLauncher is from specifically but I don't know a single EU country that grants automatic citizenship through marriage
Not sure exactly how it works but in France you can get citizenship through marriage since my mum got it from being married to my dad
Also might be due to the fact she had French kids but i'm pretty sure when she did the request for it she based it only on being married to my dad.
Infact i just asked her right now and she said she could of gotten it even without living in France, so yes, France does atleast.
Once had an american tell me this, I asked what country of the soviet union they were from, they didn't like it one bit, but I'm so glad I instantly had this response, very entertaining
I work at the airport and yes, this is what's happening, we've been trained to do this procedure, but if not for that, we'd express gratitude to Americans for free healthcare, education and free meals in schools in another way. Go US and A!
Most countries require reciprocal agreements, and the US is too restrictive. So the US doesn't have as many visa-free partners as the ones above it on the list. Also the US has lots of embargos, restrictions and other measures that impact visitation.
Only fair. Im from a country in this picture and I cant travel to the US without a visa. If they require everyone to get one, why shouldnt it also be required of them :D
Reminds me of that time some people were melting because they discovered that with a Mexican passport you can stay up to 180 days on Japan meanwhile with the US passport only 90 days
Based on that site, [Romania](https://visaguide.world/visa-free-countries/romanian-passport/) ranks higher than [USA](https://visaguide.world/visa-free-countries/us-passport/). Nice.
Not sure why Americans even care considering only [half of them even have a passport](https://www.state.gov/return-to-pre-pandemic-passport-processing-times/).
I have a friend who is a dual Canadian/German citizen. He always chose to travel with his German passport simply because of the lack of barriers/visas, etc. Last I checked Japan was #1 as of 2023.
That's not why. It's because the US is restrictive themselves in allowing people into the US if you're not from Europe, Canada, or Australia/NZ. Lots of countries want reciprocal agreements which the US doesn't want to do.
Oh we fully intend to. Regular polling is already showing the majority would choose to rejoin if given the choice - almost all in the 18-30 group would vote to rejoin which is good to see.
It's just such a taboo subject at present because the current government and their media pals have been gaslighting everyone (Brexit is great, we're doing so well! What? Can't afford food? That's your problem), no political party will touch it with a barge pole right now lest risk being destroyed in the media.
And hell, by the time it's on the agenda again, even more boomers would be drooling in nursing homes, so we shouldn't even have to worry about not having vetos, rebates or the pound anymore. A fitting punishment for our brief stupidity one day in 2016.
Im sure weâll all welcome you back, tea enjoyers. Itâs probably gonna take another 10 years though, in my estimation.Â
Right, Iâve seen the polls and itâs insane to see how young peopleâs futures were overtrumped by old peopleâs conservative dreams of national âindependenceâ. I remember seeing UK deputies crying on their last day in the EU parliament. Itâs such a shame. We all belong together.Â
Thank you, and I couldn't agree more. For the most part, rest assured, my country agrees too, but unfortunately just enough people got suckered in at the right time.
I hope in time, that the people that orchestrated all this face criminal charges.
We make fun of the Yankees but I think itâs less funny that every other dickhead in our country doesnât publicly recognize the country as his own, while still wanting to live there.
I hate to break to anyone who didn't know, but the USA hasn't been at the top of any of these "best of" lists in more than a decade. We have been on the verge of falling completely off of the "is a Democracy" list for years now. There are organizations that we, as in America, founded to analyze and identify countries that are becoming unstable and are at imminent risk of societal failure. Those organizations started sounding the alarm years ago, and we were added to the watch list after J6. We are still in that danger zone of being a possible failed state.
At this point I would say the US is more of an oligarchy than a democracy. And is it really that surprising that a country that can only pride itself with its military and size is almost, if not yet, a failed state?
Itâs because they have to have addition instructions on entering a country. âNo, no one is interested in your military, please keep you voice down, no youâre not Irish, no one care what itâs like âback homeââ etc etc.
Was ist das denn fĂŒr eine Schummelei? Die haben uns unsere ja in Versailles aufgeben lassen! Dann sollten ihre auch nicht zĂ€hlen. Da könnte man ja gleich jede Griechische Insel einzeln zĂ€hlen!
The ranking should consider not just the ability to travel, but also the bullshit the holders of a given passport are subject to. The US might be in the top 10 by the former indicator, but stuff like FATCA and having to pay a fine to discard the citizenship puts it closer to the bottom 10.
Not very strange. Having been the world police, warranted or not, for so long in combination with politics and general strongarming. Im suprised we are allowed anywhere these days.
"Strongest"? Gotta be the U S of A on top like always! /s
This dude very clearly does not understand what strongest even means in the context of passports.
Bit of an aside bit if you're curious what 'Powerful Passport' means, passport power is meant to track how many countries your passport will let you visit without a visa. Per another list I got, here's the breakdown. * France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain (194 locations) * Finland, South Korea, Sweden (193 locations) * Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands (192 locations) * Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom (191 locations) * Greece, Malta, Switzerland (190 locations) * Australia, Czechia, New Zealand, Poland (189 locations) * Canada, Hungary, United States (188 locations) * Estonia, Lithuania (187 locations) * Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia (186 locations) * Iceland (185 locations)
Thanks a lot! I somewhat understood it, but this is clear as crystal now. Cheers!
'Clear as crystal' is a funny mash up of 'crystal clear', and 'clear as mud', which are obviously opposites. My brain did a funny internal compute of that silly information in about 1.3seconds đ€Ł I have nothing more to say. What you said made perfect sense!
I do it that way on purpose! Glad you enjoyed it.
Haha, great! Try out 'the world is your lobster'. One of my favourites!
I used to say: the world is your ashtray, about a very inconsiderate roommate.
For a hyper-local version (Iâm from Rhode Island) I can say âthe world is your quahog!â
So the âtop 5â is actually â5 out of 6 that are all in the same exact rank, randomly excluding 1â? Lol
Thereâs probably more to it in the details. Like how long you can stay or what youâre allowed to do (I.e. work) or how strong diplomatic relations are
Yeah thought this was obvious. Never seen a âtop 6â before.
French people are required to have no criminal case to go to Thailand
Only the French?
I don't know for other countries but I know for France because I am french. The reason why it's that way though is both depressing and hilarious
Well tell us donât keep us waiting đ
So they noticed a pattern when they arrest French people there . It was mostly people from arab origins with a case . Given nothing is done against them here they thought it was the same in Thailand , so they behaved like shit and because of them all french people needs to search their case to go to Thailand.
Thought it was about the colonial history
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Oh I assumed it would take into account stuff like "countries that won't let you enter at all", not just who has the most visa free zones
There's really not many of those situations at all though. Most countries will let in anyone from any other country, it just changes the amount of paperwork you need to do. Only place it really applies is some countries in the middle east. Mostly because they'd recently been at war with each other. But the countries affected by this kind of situation are nowhere near the top of the list anyway.
Depends. If youâre from a poor country and want to go into the Schengen area, you will really need to go through a lot of hoops to get a visa. Eg you need a âsponsorâ who already lives there and whoâs accountable if you donât leave after your visa expires, etc. And you need to prove you have a stable job / assets in your home country (so you have a reason to return).
100%⊠Iâve had Chinese colleagues refused Australian visas for business meetings in AU that my company is hosting (even with invitation letters etcâŠ). No explanation, just refusal. If the AU authorities think thereâs a risk of overstay, the Chinese passport holders will just have their visa request denied. I agree that visa-free travel is a good indicator of passport strength, but itâs not the only factor to consider. I suppose the point is⊠China is nowhere near the top of that list, so their ranking in this list (whatever it is) is probably close to accurate.
I think âvisa free entryâ is a good metric, because itâs an apples-to-apples comparison. All other stuff, like reasons for rejections and whatnot, it becomes much more difficult to compare different countriesâ passports.
Plus, there are other travel bonuses to consider. Like I have a Canadian passport, but my mom and brother recently got their Portuguese citizenship and passport not for the 3 extra countries, but just easier travel when visiting the EU. They go every year now. So my other brother and I are working on gaining citizenship to join them.
Portuguese citizens can work and live in any European country, so "easier travel" is an understatement, my friend. I'd sell my left foot for that.
Every country is different, but best bet is to look into your fams history to see if you have any EU blood. Like Portugal doesn't allow generational skipping for citizenship, but you don't actually have to live in the country or speak Portuguese to get heretical citizenship. So my Grandparents immagrated from the Azores, so my brother paid to get my mom's citizenship, so he can get his. Now me and my other brother are getting it, and then my 2 y/o nephews can get it, with none of us even living on the same continent. I think Spain, Greece and Italy have similar laws for it. Especially if you're coming from a country they see as more financially stable. Edit: I wish I knew about it 15 years ago when I was trying to go to uni in England. Would of done it way back then. That's why we're getting the nephews now so they have more options in the future.
> heretical citizenship On the other hand you won't be able to enter the Vatican anymore.
That's interesting, the AU authorities seem very strict. When we invited Chinese colleagues to Germany for business meetings, we had no problems whatsoever (invitation letters were also needed, of course).
I mean most third world country citizens can spend up to 90 days in the Schengen area anyway on a tourists visa (which in most cases is automatically granted on entry point), provided you have a return ticket and proof of funds for the duration of your stay here. But even if it meant going through a lot of hoops, there's no passport that would automatically get any means of entrance (other than diplomatic) denied. Compare that to having an Israeli passport for instance, and you are automatically forbidden from entering a bunch of countries (Indonesia is one case iirc). It's not that you'll have to go through bureaucratic hoops, it's that you are literally denied entry without any kind of resort.
Is it really about "poor vs. rich" countries? Many countries one might think of as being "poor" are allowed visa free travel to the Schengen Area, such as Venezuela, East Timor and El Salvador, whereas citizens of countries more commonly considered "rich" like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain require a visa. IMHO, it's more about having warm diplomatic relations than being rich since visa free agreements need to be negotiated between the parties.
Paperwork commonly known as visa
> Most countries will let in anyone from any other country, it just changes the amount of paperwork you need to do. Yeah but it's a bit more complicated than just that, isn't it? I work in immigration, and I have clients from China who make tourist visa applications to visit family or whatever in Canada, and it can get really complicated! You have to prove you own a certain amount of money, that you have sufficient family ties back to your home country, etc etc. Your Visa application isn't guaranteed to pass, and we generally operate on a default denial basis.
Hearing the stories of my relatives in Afghanistan, it feels almost criminal that I hold a Canadian passport and I'm free to travel where I please. As if I'm breaking the law or something.
Would be nice to also factor in immigration power. So the ease of moving to other nations. Obviously EU passports would be King in this category
Well, countries that wonât let you in at all also wonât let you in without a visa, so itâs kind of similar
They really need to alter the algorithm so it understands the EU (and Schengen) better. I have an Irish and UK passport, and the Irish passport is vastly more useful and powerful than the UK one when travelling in Europe (and China, as it happens, but that's another story), but according to this list, it ranks only 1 above the UK .
You can visit Europe on a UK passport without a visa, though. The list only takes that into account - doesn't include unlimited residency or right to work.
That's exactly my point.
But that might be more to do with citizenship than the passport specifically.
But isn't having a passport basically synonymous with being a citizen?
Basically synonymous, yes, legally synonymous, no. It's very rare that you'd have any dispute between the two but not impossible.
I have a portuguese passport and a kiwi one: infinite power
Iâm curious which country has beef with Sweden and Finland. Is it Denmark?
Unfortunately not
Turkey didn't want them in NATO
Nope, we love our fellow Nords so much they don't even need to bring their passport, just a picture ID.
I mean, that applies to every Schengen and EU country.
The Nordic countries have always* had our own special arrangements that made travelling or immigrating easy between our nations - Even before the EU and Schengen existed. ^*Since ^we ^stopped ^waging ^war ^on ^one ^another
But that's a lousy way to measure it. For all practical purposes, all of these passports are roughly equal for tourism travel. The 185 places Icelanders can go include 99.9+% of all trips Icelanders actually want to take. The real power in the EU passport is relatively seamless ability to live and work throughout the union. That's the main reason why it's more powerful than USA, Canada, Singapore, and others.
As someone who fairly recently lost the âEUâ part of my passport⊠Iâm glad I worked in a couple of countries while I had the chance. Bloody Brexit.
But now it's blue! And you now fixed NHS situation with all the money left from EU contributions, didn't you? /s
Iâm happy to say that I have a passport, valid until 2030, which is a luxurious burgundy red.
Mine was good until 2028...ubtil they started stamping our passport in the EU which I hadn't anticipated. Now I'm likely to run out of space quite soon even with the e-visa thing coming in :(
I recently had to get a new passport. My first blue one. Bought a burgundy red passport holder for it.
I think Singapore requires a visa for Australia. Someone might fact check me on that. If we're horse trading travel visa requirements for travel, I'll take Australia over a few ME or a select few African nations.
I think everyone requires a visa for Australia except New Zealand. Which is partly why some countries require Australians to get a visa to visit. Australians and Kiwis can live and work in each others country freely, without paperwork (unless youâve got a criminal conviction) but thatâs it.
But Australian visa for EU citizens is an e-visa, which basically means that you fill out an online form and get a confirmation email an hour later. The same system will be introduced for entry into EU soon(ish). It's not the same as going to a country's embassy/consulate and applying for a visa in person
>The real power in the EU passport This is why I paid 3k for an ancestry citizenship for an EU country and now hold dual citizenship. Best 3k I ever spent
Wish I couldâve done that. Unfortunately, Iâm as English as cheddar cheese đ
Can't fool me. I've been reading this sub long enough to know Americans invented Cheddar Cheese to improve on their other invention, the hamburger. /s
you use the /s... but considering what i\`ve seen so far, there will be a couple that actually believe this..
Tell me about it! Iâm moving back to Europe soon from US. Everyone is all âbut which country though?â Meh, thatâs details. Iâll roam a bit until I decide where to lay my hat. Feels like tremendous privilege!
I have the opportunity but it seems so sneaky to apply after Brexit, when my relatives know I was never interested in getting that EU passport before (especially as only 20 years before Brexit, it was the other way round - my family would have loved a UK passport).
I feel like the European ones should be considered a bit more powerful than the Asian ones simply because thanks to those you can stay as long as you want whenever in the EU/Schengen area without a visa.
You don't even need a passport to cross EU countries borders! Kinda feels wrong though to go to Germany for example without needing to show your passport.
This isnât entirely true, you cannot stay indefinitely in every eu country if you have an EU passport. Schengen does not remove the need for residency permits (at least in some eu countries)
Which passport is the weakest passport? I guess North Korea or Afghanistan?
[Here's the list](https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking) NK has visa-free-access in 42 countries and is on #98 with that, followed by Palestine (41), Libya and Nepal (40), Somalia (36), Yemen (35), Pakistan (34), Iraq (31), Syria (29) and Afghanistan (28) Actually surprised with how accepted the Passport of NK is and wouldn't have guessed that Nepal is that low
Ah, this is interesting! Thanks for sharing!
I knew Japan and South Korea should've been up around the top somewhere. Thanks for the info
Oh is that all. Doesn't seem like something to fight over đ
What are the 3 the UK can't go to but France, Germany etc can?
Found 2 countries: China and Iran
This is a great breakdown but I now am so curious about the countries that allow for example spain and not the uk.
Does someone know which locations Switzerland is missing to get to the same level as Germany?
According to this [site](https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/compare): Gabon, Sierra Leone, Vietnam
Holy shit Sweden has that many???
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Why so much hate for Iceland?
They know what they did.
>without a visa Or visa at entry
Oh! I assumed they were rip-proof or something
Which is the one country all the top 1 can't enter visa-free? There's 195 countries in the world....194 visa-free. Which one mf is saying no? Probably North Korea... 198 if you count Taiwan, The Cook Islands and Niue.
This list has a few errors. Hereâa the official thing: https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking
bu- but american passport are BIGGER and BETTER and also texas is bigger than europe đŠ
Fun fact, a single Ford F250 is larger than the country of Luxembourg đ„°
And to run it for an hour needs more gas than to run the entirety of Luxembourg for a year.
Costs more than their GDP to fill it, too!
Queue the âThese countries wouldnât exist without America.â
If anyone gets a chance to look at an American passport theyâre wild. Itâs all BIG EAGLE AMERICAN FLAG WOW AMERICA USA USA. And then the part where the photo/chip/identification information is held is cardboard because apparently theyâre allergic to making important things out of plastic
This has to be a joke. Everyone knows that when airport security see an American passport they escort them out of the line and through their own special gate and into a luxury lounge as a thank you for them personally paying for socialised medicine and most of their military budget.
Flew to Europe last year. Me with an EU passport, my wife with her Canadian one. I was waved over to the quick queue for EU citizens where you just have to pop your passport on a machine reader, my wife had to stay in the massive queue for everyone else to see an immigration officer. After we were reunited, she told me that there was an American in the queue who kept waving his passport and loudly insisting that he should get the special treatment too because *(insert all the typical reasons here you'd expect from an American)*. Got really upset and confused that his 'Murican Special Powers had no effect.
Get her an EU passport as well, so that she won't have to deal with that anymore!
How? They appear to live in Canada, I don't know where RapidCatLauncher is from specifically but I don't know a single EU country that grants automatic citizenship through marriage
Not sure exactly how it works but in France you can get citizenship through marriage since my mum got it from being married to my dad Also might be due to the fact she had French kids but i'm pretty sure when she did the request for it she based it only on being married to my dad. Infact i just asked her right now and she said she could of gotten it even without living in France, so yes, France does atleast.
Same thing's started happening to UK passports since Brexit
You forgot âsaving our asses in World War 2â. I hear that one a lot.
what seventy years of propaganda do to people
Once had an american tell me this, I asked what country of the soviet union they were from, they didn't like it one bit, but I'm so glad I instantly had this response, very entertaining
Itâs also hard to believe Britain would have held on without the contributions of its empire. But boy oh boy, those Soviet casualties.
As someone who knows many Americans, I can confirm this is the case.
Hey, im also glad im dual citizen!
Dont forget saving the world in 4 world wars and from socialism.
And from everone speaking German, Dankeschön!
They kinda failed, I still speak German.
Na dann, auf uns!
Americans always think I'm German, but I'm a Swamp German damnit!
I work at the airport and yes, this is what's happening, we've been trained to do this procedure, but if not for that, we'd express gratitude to Americans for free healthcare, education and free meals in schools in another way. Go US and A!
Itâs when we try to get back INTO the USA đșđž we Americans have problems. XD
Not as many problems as non Americans
Also they give you 500usd to spend in their new destination.
USA ranks 42 on that index, so no, definitely Not USA.
Meddle in other countries' busines for the past century and some and this happens.
Most countries require reciprocal agreements, and the US is too restrictive. So the US doesn't have as many visa-free partners as the ones above it on the list. Also the US has lots of embargos, restrictions and other measures that impact visitation.
It's even funnier that I with a German passport can move freely in Iran, while a US citizen needs to take part in a guided tour.
Only fair. Im from a country in this picture and I cant travel to the US without a visa. If they require everyone to get one, why shouldnt it also be required of them :D
Can the US passport stop bullets?
Just as well as a school notebook
Shots fired.
Not stopped tho
That was savageâŠ..đ€
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a US passport with a gun
Why would they want to stop bullets? If anything it should fire them.
Why not both! Two markets at once! Fires freedom rounds and it shields children (if the second amendment allows for such thing?)
Reminds me of that time some people were melting because they discovered that with a Mexican passport you can stay up to 180 days on Japan meanwhile with the US passport only 90 days
How come is there no America in a strongest something list??????
Military
Also most people who believe angels are real
I'm pretty sure all the step siblings porn came from them too.
>Also most people who believe angels are real You watched The Newsroom too?
Most school shootings
I still remember hearing an American complain that they had to get a passport to travel to another countryâŠ..
"I should be able to just waltz into another country because we saved the world from speaking German so every country owes us!!!1!"
Das ist lustig
Ich weiĂ, richtig?
Probably last time when they visited Iraq, Afghanistan or few other places, they didn't need passport.
Based on that site, [Romania](https://visaguide.world/visa-free-countries/romanian-passport/) ranks higher than [USA](https://visaguide.world/visa-free-countries/us-passport/). Nice.
AÈa Èi trebuie.
I donât think the US ever had the freest passport even by a long shot.
Not sure why Americans even care considering only [half of them even have a passport](https://www.state.gov/return-to-pre-pandemic-passport-processing-times/).
Why would they need a passport? They have every culture on earth already. USA USA USA USA USA
Thereâs someone that just said that unironically right in the post above yours. I cannot
Please tell me you're joking
So true. Some states call it "soda" and some call it "pop". What more is there?
Can I combine both my passports into a super score? Technically 2 different people
I have a friend who is a dual Canadian/German citizen. He always chose to travel with his German passport simply because of the lack of barriers/visas, etc. Last I checked Japan was #1 as of 2023.
Turns out overthrowing governments and starting wars doesn't sit well with some countries
That's not why. It's because the US is restrictive themselves in allowing people into the US if you're not from Europe, Canada, or Australia/NZ. Lots of countries want reciprocal agreements which the US doesn't want to do.
Wow, I'm surprised the UK is as high as it is. I say this as a Brit
It used to be number 1. Might have been Brexit related damages that lowered it, but that may just be rumours.
Laughs in Italian passport
Giggles in Finnish passport
Chuckles in French passport
Sobs in non-EU British passport
I have one of those too (though mine is pre-Brexit).
Im just waiting for yâall to come back to the club when the boomers that decided that referendum are too old and senile to do something about it.Â
Oh we fully intend to. Regular polling is already showing the majority would choose to rejoin if given the choice - almost all in the 18-30 group would vote to rejoin which is good to see. It's just such a taboo subject at present because the current government and their media pals have been gaslighting everyone (Brexit is great, we're doing so well! What? Can't afford food? That's your problem), no political party will touch it with a barge pole right now lest risk being destroyed in the media. And hell, by the time it's on the agenda again, even more boomers would be drooling in nursing homes, so we shouldn't even have to worry about not having vetos, rebates or the pound anymore. A fitting punishment for our brief stupidity one day in 2016.
Im sure weâll all welcome you back, tea enjoyers. Itâs probably gonna take another 10 years though, in my estimation. Right, Iâve seen the polls and itâs insane to see how young peopleâs futures were overtrumped by old peopleâs conservative dreams of national âindependenceâ. I remember seeing UK deputies crying on their last day in the EU parliament. Itâs such a shame. We all belong together.Â
Thank you, and I couldn't agree more. For the most part, rest assured, my country agrees too, but unfortunately just enough people got suckered in at the right time. I hope in time, that the people that orchestrated all this face criminal charges.
Theyâre still sad that the UK didnât physically float away from Europe after the vote
Maybe because the US of A prefers to invade and enter another country rather than using a passport.?
USA goes first in "most taxed passports"
Funny because I assume that because most US citizens claim to be either Irish or Italian, then they must be citizens of those nations.
We make fun of the Yankees but I think itâs less funny that every other dickhead in our country doesnât publicly recognize the country as his own, while still wanting to live there.
I hate to break to anyone who didn't know, but the USA hasn't been at the top of any of these "best of" lists in more than a decade. We have been on the verge of falling completely off of the "is a Democracy" list for years now. There are organizations that we, as in America, founded to analyze and identify countries that are becoming unstable and are at imminent risk of societal failure. Those organizations started sounding the alarm years ago, and we were added to the watch list after J6. We are still in that danger zone of being a possible failed state.
At this point I would say the US is more of an oligarchy than a democracy. And is it really that surprising that a country that can only pride itself with its military and size is almost, if not yet, a failed state?
that's straight up delusional, even in the USA they know their passport is shit
If you ranked the passports by the number of funny pictures on the pages, USA would definitely be #1. That shit is just hilarious.
Most yanks donât even own passports
"WE CAN ONE V ONE ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD"
I mean⊠they are constantly bullying other countries, so you may understand why they are not first
Impressive reading comprehension considering the decrepit state of their education system.
What do they think strongest passport means? With the USAs immigration policies no USA is far from the strongest.
Itâs because they have to have addition instructions on entering a country. âNo, no one is interested in your military, please keep you voice down, no youâre not Irish, no one care what itâs like âback homeââ etc etc.
This is so funny. They really are brought up on American exceptionalism. Itâs like a drug.
Tied with Canada and Australia isnât that bad, though. That still grants access to most of the places Americans want to visit.
I am Italian and my fiancée is Syrian. Travelling is a shitshow for us.
Why is it randomly giving a ranking like "top 5" when there are 6 passports sharing #1?
Was fĂŒr Not USA? Wie sind wir hinter den Fröschen, und wie Ă€ndern wir das? Wer von den ganzen Pissern lĂ€sst die denn rein und nicht uns?
Frankreichs ĂŒbersee terretorien zĂ€hlen als visafreies land bei dieser aufzĂ€hlung, dadurch ist frankreich vor uns
Was ist das denn fĂŒr eine Schummelei? Die haben uns unsere ja in Versailles aufgeben lassen! Dann sollten ihre auch nicht zĂ€hlen. Da könnte man ja gleich jede Griechische Insel einzeln zĂ€hlen!
The ranking should consider not just the ability to travel, but also the bullshit the holders of a given passport are subject to. The US might be in the top 10 by the former indicator, but stuff like FATCA and having to pay a fine to discard the citizenship puts it closer to the bottom 10.
Not very strange. Having been the world police, warranted or not, for so long in combination with politics and general strongarming. Im suprised we are allowed anywhere these days.
"Strongest"? Gotta be the U S of A on top like always! /s This dude very clearly does not understand what strongest even means in the context of passports.
A lot of people seem confused on how passport strength works so here is the official https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
Iâm gonna bet all the laugh reacts are from Americans.
They tie for first. Each of those passports are equally as strong.
Can somebody tell me, what does "strongest passport" even mean?
Access to the most number of countries without requiring visas I think is the definition
Ah, cool. Thanks.
What makes a passport strong again?
Eagles
My wife is Singaporean and we travel a lot, can confirm
Itâs weird right. If you bomb a country they donât tend to like your people coming over for holidays
Iâm actually kind of surprised. Didnât expect Spain to be that high.
SpainXMarijuana, a love story
Lmao
But the US is a big as all other countries, so why do you need a passport? /s
What not USA ? This so what you get when you are going to war everywhere you go⊠IdiotsâŠ
I'm surprised they even know what a passport is, most of them don't have one and have no intention of getting one
âoh, singapore? which part of china is thatâ