Strongest passport in my opinion is the Canadian one. You can work in US with TN visa(simple process). You can work abroad and dont have to pay taxes back home (americans have to). You get pretty much all visa free places same as americans, and a bit better commonwealth wide programs (working holiday and so on, AUS for example doesn’t have agreement with US but does with canada). You can also visit EU visa free and if you land a job you just get a work permit (for Germany).
Visiting congo visa free while americans can’t doesn’t make EU passports stronger. EU citizens don’t have an easy pathway to U.S. (highest salaries in the world) or acccess to commonwealth programs. U.S. passport has disadvantage of taxing all citizens even if they live abroad. Canada doesn’t have that. EU wide benefits are usually open to canadian/us citizens too.
Makes you wonder which nation(s) we Swiss can’t visit without a visa, but the Germans can 🙂
*^(I’ll hold back my envy until I know the destinations o.O)*
The problem with these indices is they only relate to entering a country as a tourist.
If weighting was given to the rights to live and work in other countries without need a visa too, the graphics would look quite different (although those differences would be reduced in this instance because it only related to Europe anyhow).
Armenia: Nice!
Why do so few countries allow visa-free travel for Armenians?
And here I thought it’s about weight and rigidity of the passport.
You know that your passport is good that you can go to more countries than there are countries in the world
Interesting graph format
Baltics not Eastern Europe proven!
Dunno why Ukrainian one is so high. I and millions of Ukrainians are not allowed even leaving Ukraine with it. Second to only North Korea.
EU freedom of movement rights are heavily abused by non EU countries because we turn a blind eye to tourists working.
Anyone got some info on the Vatican? I mean, which nation wouldn’t allow the Pope to visit visa-free?
194 countries visa free but apparently US is not one of them
Yes, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Armenia are at same level as Kosovo, which is not fully a country.
If we count free movement rights, then the Irish one is definitely the most powerful passport after Brexit. They can move to EU + EFTA + UK.
Turkey’s numbers are kind of misleading as a lot of people (a small percentage of Turkey, but still probably more people than the populations of smaller EU countries) have the green “special passport” which allows visa free touristic access to the Schengen Area, Russia, and some others, which increases the number you see here quite a bit.
This passport is mostly given to people who work/worked in government jobs (public school teachers, police, etc) for a certain number of years (around 10, I think). Their spouses and their children under the age of 25 can also get this.
I want to visit a country and have to obtain a visa?
I mean who cares?!? That’s not Rocket-Science!
I read the title on the left as “password strength” and I was like damn europeans have really strong passwords
biggest invaders with the strongest passports
Turkey is the most powerful passport in the world that does not allow visa-free entry to the EU. While it provides visa exemption to developed countries in Asia such as Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore, Russia can also be entered with an e-visa and provides visa exemption to all countries in the American continent (North or South) except the US and Canada. New Zealand can also be entered with a free of charge visa, and UK visa holders can enter Ireland visa-free.
If the Schengen visa is abolished one day in the future, it will be as powerful as the Vatican or Bulgaria with nearly 160 visa-free countries.
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Strongest passport in my opinion is the Canadian one. You can work in US with TN visa(simple process). You can work abroad and dont have to pay taxes back home (americans have to). You get pretty much all visa free places same as americans, and a bit better commonwealth wide programs (working holiday and so on, AUS for example doesn’t have agreement with US but does with canada). You can also visit EU visa free and if you land a job you just get a work permit (for Germany).
Visiting congo visa free while americans can’t doesn’t make EU passports stronger. EU citizens don’t have an easy pathway to U.S. (highest salaries in the world) or acccess to commonwealth programs. U.S. passport has disadvantage of taxing all citizens even if they live abroad. Canada doesn’t have that. EU wide benefits are usually open to canadian/us citizens too.
Makes you wonder which nation(s) we Swiss can’t visit without a visa, but the Germans can 🙂
*^(I’ll hold back my envy until I know the destinations o.O)*
The problem with these indices is they only relate to entering a country as a tourist.
If weighting was given to the rights to live and work in other countries without need a visa too, the graphics would look quite different (although those differences would be reduced in this instance because it only related to Europe anyhow).
Armenia: Nice!
Why do so few countries allow visa-free travel for Armenians?
And here I thought it’s about weight and rigidity of the passport.
You know that your passport is good that you can go to more countries than there are countries in the world
Interesting graph format
Baltics not Eastern Europe proven!
Dunno why Ukrainian one is so high. I and millions of Ukrainians are not allowed even leaving Ukraine with it. Second to only North Korea.
No. 7 – https://www.passportindex.org/?country=si
Where veterinary passport’s strength?
If it’s less than 150 are you really in europe ?
EU freedom of movement rights are heavily abused by non EU countries because we turn a blind eye to tourists working.
Anyone got some info on the Vatican? I mean, which nation wouldn’t allow the Pope to visit visa-free?
194 countries visa free but apparently US is not one of them
Yes, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Armenia are at same level as Kosovo, which is not fully a country.
If we count free movement rights, then the Irish one is definitely the most powerful passport after Brexit. They can move to EU + EFTA + UK.
Turkey’s numbers are kind of misleading as a lot of people (a small percentage of Turkey, but still probably more people than the populations of smaller EU countries) have the green “special passport” which allows visa free touristic access to the Schengen Area, Russia, and some others, which increases the number you see here quite a bit.
This passport is mostly given to people who work/worked in government jobs (public school teachers, police, etc) for a certain number of years (around 10, I think). Their spouses and their children under the age of 25 can also get this.
I want to visit a country and have to obtain a visa?
I mean who cares?!? That’s not Rocket-Science!
I read the title on the left as “password strength” and I was like damn europeans have really strong passwords
biggest invaders with the strongest passports
Turkey is the most powerful passport in the world that does not allow visa-free entry to the EU. While it provides visa exemption to developed countries in Asia such as Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore, Russia can also be entered with an e-visa and provides visa exemption to all countries in the American continent (North or South) except the US and Canada. New Zealand can also be entered with a free of charge visa, and UK visa holders can enter Ireland visa-free.
If the Schengen visa is abolished one day in the future, it will be as powerful as the Vatican or Bulgaria with nearly 160 visa-free countries.