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The Passport With Most Access to Have is a UK, SE, FI One

posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:56PM   
from the perhaps-more-people-want-to-leave-the-UK? dept.

kaszz writes:

The passport to have if you want to avoid complicated visa requirements is a British, Finnish or Swedish one. These passports gives the right to admission into 173 countries without visa or with a simplified visa at arrival according to the British consulting bureau Movehub. Second place is passports from Denmark, Luxembourg, Germany and USA with 172 countries. The passport that gives the least amount of freedom of movement is the Afghan, that gives the right to admission without visa or simplified visa into 28 countries.

However, the US passport is only marginally behind the top 3 - by 1 country!

• visa complication or immigration complications?(Score: 1) by arslan on Wednesday August 13 2014, @10:52PM

  by arslan (3462) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @10:52PM (#81013)

  Obviously if you don't have a visa for a country that requires it you'll be having complications, but even if most people did you'd get hassled more in some countries compared to others. The U.S. is a good example.

  Also some countries have different process for visa allocation depending on your source country. As an example, Japan used to be very strict depending on which Asian country you're applying from. They would require financial statements with minimum amount shown, employer's reference stating you're employed, etc. etc. However once, you have it the processing at the border is smooth. But if you're from that same Asian country but work and resides in another, i.e. Australia, your visa application is pretty much automatic - the travel agency just handles it for you.. no different that if you're travelling to another country which requires no visa.

  So the number/ranking in on itself doesn't really say much..