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janrinok
on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:56PM
from the perhaps-more-people-want-to-leave-the-UK? dept.
from the perhaps-more-people-want-to-leave-the-UK? dept.
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!
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The Passport With Most Access to Have is a UK, SE, FI One
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You are taking yourself far too seriously.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ramloss on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:53AM
The title of the article is "How powerful is your passport?" buth I think it needs to accout for the reciprocity policies of some countries, for example: Malasya appears among the top passports without visa requirements (167), but it might be due to the visa requirements (or lack therof) of the country itself, which according to wikipedia allows entry without visa to citizens of 161 countries. On the other hand, Australian citizens have visa-less access to the same number of countries, but only citizens of New Zealand are allowed entry without visa
It gets a little more interesting when considering both numbers and the ratio of countries that a passport has access to against the citizenships that are allowed entry visa-free to the same country (data from wikipedia):
This numbers better represent the "power" that a passport has
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @07:04AM
"This numbers better represent the "power" that a passport has"
No it doesn't. The passport of australia gets you in 167 countries without visa. It does not matter at all wether you can access australia with other passports. That's already taken into account from the point of view of the other passports.