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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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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @03:13AM
For the UK. it is helped by the fact it ruled so much of the Earth's surface
at the height of its rule ('The sun never sets on the British Empire'). Is
that still the case today?
Then World War II happened and one of the results was the USA, Canada, England,
Australia, and New Zeland banding together and sharing (top) secret intelligence
matters--thus forming Five Eyes (FVEY)
That has to be why a UK or US passport can get you into nearly 200 countries
on the face of the Earth without a lot of hassle.
I don't know why that is also the case for Sweeden or Finnland--they are not
a part of Five Eyes. Anybody know why these passports are 'so good'?
(Score: 1) by ingwa on Thursday August 14 2014, @10:07AM
It's because we are nice people. :)
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 14 2014, @05:07PM
When was the last time Scandinavia attacked anyone?
(The Continuation War involving Finland was revenge (?) for getting invaded by Russia a couple years previously (and both happened during WWII anyway), and Norway and Denmark both *got* invaded by Germany)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Hawkwind on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:48PM
The ongoing invasion of Hans Island by the Danes (and then by the Canadians, repeat). The Danes and Canadians might even start fighting!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @10:57PM
"England"
Good luck finding that treaty, or how it relates to UK passports.