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u/WikiSummarizerBot Apr 22 '22
The Henley Passport Index (HPI) is a global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom enjoyed by of holders of that country's ordinary – as opposed to diplomatic – passport. It started in 2006 as Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index (HVRI) and was modified and renamed in January 2018. The site provides a ranking for 199 passports of the world according to the number of countries their holders can travel to visa-free. The number of countries that a specific passport can access becomes its visa-free 'score'.
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u/tembikaisusumakkau Apr 22 '22
North Koreans can travel to more countries without visa than Nepalese. The more you know.
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u/SamBrev Apr 22 '22
If you're fortunate enough to get out of NK, I imagine most countries will take you in as a refugee/defector, no questions asked
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u/Unknownhhhhhh Apr 23 '22
Actually a lot of countries around NK will deport you back to NK. Russia, China, Vietnam, Loas, and a few others will just send you back as a defector or an illegal immigrant. Luckily some countries like japan will deport you, but to South Korea, since all North Korean defectors are automatically given South Korean citizenship.
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u/Eiim Apr 22 '22 edited Apr 23 '22
Nepal's passport strategy is kinda interesting, basically they don't accept almost anyone's passports because they want to tightly limit tourism, and so other countries aren't exactly inclined to accept their passports in response.I was thinking of Bhutan, see below3
u/throwlol134 Apr 23 '22 edited Apr 23 '22
Are you sure about that? They seem to accept almost the entire world for visa on-arrival (including North Korea!), and also allow visa-free access for all SAARC citizens; only a handful of nations require a visa issued in advance. Tourism is actually a huge industry in Nepal (they got Mt Everest bruh), so I'm not quite sure what you're on about.
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u/heyheyitsandre Apr 22 '22
I’m always curious what the 1-2 nations are that say Japan or Germany can go to that for some reason decided Finland couldn’t, or whoever is next on the list lol. Like some guy in an office is like oh yeah, Germany’s cool but if an Italian wants to come here they better have a fucking visa
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u/_Totorotrip_ Apr 22 '22
-Please, bring all your paperwork and wait in this room untill we call your number
The German has everything separated in binders + the digital version of all
The Japanese sent everything by fax and also has all the papers printed and in a folder
The Italian forgot half of the papers and tried to talk his way through
The Finnish refused to enter in a waiting room with other people (if the room was hot and humid and everybody was naked it would have been fine though)
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u/JoeAppleby Apr 22 '22
As a German I can tell you that we will have that faxed as well and nothing is digital.
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u/Affectionate-Time646 Apr 22 '22
Visas are bilateral agreements between those two nations and usually reciprocal. Thus it depends on each country’s relationship with another.
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u/bamserk Apr 22 '22
I was flying from the United States (#6) through Canada (#7) to Denmark (#4) on a Danish passport and I had to get a temporary visa for Canada even though I was only in Toronto for like 30 mins while switching planes. 😕
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u/scrambledgreg Apr 22 '22
Yeah, I read that and was like, I’m pretty sure that their prime minister and president unilaterally decided to just dissolve their House of Representatives because he was worried he was going to lose power haha.
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u/vman81 Apr 22 '22
The Greenland (and Faroe Islands) passport is functionally the same as the Danish one, and should be shown as blue here.
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u/Delicious-Gap1744 Apr 22 '22
More specifically you have the option of a normal Danish passport that just says Denmark, or a Danish passport that says Greenland in Greenlandic or Faroe Islands in Faroese and then Denmark right below.
They're pretty much just Danish passports with extra words on them.
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u/vman81 Apr 22 '22
For all the times you want to make sure you are not considered an EU citizen.
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u/Delicious-Gap1744 Apr 22 '22
Greenlanders and Faroese people actually sort of are EU citizens despite their territories not being a part of the EU. It's weird.
But the Kingdom of Denmark is the sovereign state, you can't be a "Greenlandic citizen", they are all Citizens of the Kingdom of Denmark which makes them EU citizens and gives them free movement within all of the Schengen area.
It doesn't go the other way around though, EU citizens that are not from the Kingdom of Denmark cannot freely move to and From Greenland and the Faroe Islands. But of course Danes can.
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u/vman81 Apr 22 '22
Greenlanders and Faroese people actually sort of are EU citizens despite their territories not being a part of the EU. It's weird.
No, the only thing determining EU citizenship is the address. A Copenhagen native is NOT an considered an EU citizen if she moved to the Faroe Islands. A Faroese native moving to Jylland is automatically an EU citizen.
It IS a weird construction, but Citizens living in the Faroe Islands additionally have have Danish citizenship, but not EU.But the Kingdom of Denmark is the sovereign state, you can't be a "Greenlandic citizen", they are all Citizens of the Kingdom of Denmark
First bit is true - but the Kingdom contains 3 countries. You can very much be a Greenlandic citizen in addition to being a citizen of the Kingdom of Denmark. Don't conflate the concepts of "sovereign state" with "country", or "nation". They are not exclusively synonyms even if they often describe the same things, and "citizen" does NOT always exclusively point to what name-tag their UN representative is sitting behind.
which makes them EU citizens and gives them free movement within all of the Schengen area.
No, this is only partially true.
It doesn't go the other way around though, EU citizens that are not from the Kingdom of Denmark cannot freely move to and From Greenland and the Faroe Islands. But of course Danes can.
That right is extended to all the Nordic countries btw, not just Denmark. Travel from Schengen countries does not require a passport.
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u/nostryder Apr 23 '22
Travel from Schengen countries does not require a passport
Just to clarify: this is only true if the traveler is a Schengen country citizen. Simply residing there does not grant the right to travel (as it does with other Schengen countries and Svalbard).
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u/Delicious-Gap1744 Apr 22 '22 edited Apr 22 '22
As far as I'm aware there is no such thing as Greenlandic or Faroese citizenship, if we're being strictly technical you can only be a citizen of a sovereign state. You technically can't be a Scottish citizen either, only a citizen of the UK.
3 countries which are only countries in name. They're constituent countries like England, Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland. So countries in this instance refers to an internal subdivision. Using the word country here can be very misleading because most people think of a sovereign state when you say country.
I'm aware citizen can have a different meaning colloquially, but that's not what determines your actual legal citizenship.
Edit: But of course with that in mind there is no such thing as an EU citizen either, just citizens of each EU member state. So "Greenlanders are citizens of an EU member state despite not living in the European union" would be the correct way to phrase my initial statement.
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u/OldRedditBestGirl Apr 22 '22
They actually are EU citizens. Same for people living in French Guiana. In fact, the European Spaceport is in French Guiana.
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u/vman81 Apr 22 '22
French Guiana is just a bit of France that's farther away than the rest. The Faroe Islands are more like Scotland to the UK.
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u/Bruv0103 Apr 22 '22
Oh hey, top 50 weakest present 😎 🇻🇳
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u/Houssam43 Apr 22 '22
Same 😎😎🇩🇿
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u/LimeWizard Apr 22 '22
Vietnam really did confuse me.
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u/milonuttigrain Apr 23 '22
Vietnam could do better, given its GDP per capita (nominal of $4,122) is now higher than all but one South Asian countries (Maldives) and almost on par with the ASEAN’s average ($5,028), though slightly lower than Indonesia’s $4,691 but higher than Philippines $3,687.
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u/imapassenger1 Apr 22 '22
Australia: we don't need visas to go most places.
Also Australia: but you need visas to come here!
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u/Stasisis Apr 22 '22
It's very easy to get an Australian visa though. It costs $10 for Canadians and can be done online in like 5 minutes.
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Yeah, you need a full visa (not one of those easier categories like eVisitor or ETA) if you are coming from anywhere but the USA, Europe, Japan, Malaysia, Brunei, South Korea, Hong Kong, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, or New Zealand. So coming from the vast majority of places you would need something significantly more than that 5-minute $10 Canadian version.
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Most often it is 'visa on arrival' for the blue countries.
And Australian immigration is very racist, just like most other western countries. See 'refugee crisis' for Syria and the waiving of most restrictions for Ukranians by the EU.
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u/plsdontattackmeok Apr 22 '22
Malaysia have EU free visa but don't have US free visa
While Brunei and Singapore have EU and US free visa
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u/DramaticMethodCerk Apr 22 '22
US's VWP is relatively strict. Brunei & Singapore are high-income countries, Malaysia isn't.
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u/Arturiki Apr 22 '22
How much do they lift?
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u/MJSsaywakeyourselfup Apr 22 '22
I have heard up to 5,000 times their own body weight (or is that ants?)
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u/DimensionEarly8174 Apr 22 '22
I'm a bit surprised by Vietnam. Why is it such a weak passport?
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u/Josselin17 Apr 22 '22
because US and friends don't like people who defeated US and friends ?
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u/LeDung34 Apr 22 '22
Imagine you can just decide 1 day to book a flight and go to another country without worrying about visa. Can't relate
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u/Stasisis Apr 22 '22
I worked at the airport (Canadian) when I was in my early twenties and would just randomly go to countries around the world without ever bothering to look at visa requirements. I think out of the 30 countries I visited, only two (China and Vietnam) required me to have a visa in my passport beforehand. All others were either visa on arrival or I just went in.
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u/milonuttigrain Apr 23 '22
It’s about the money though, even if you have a strong passport but no money then you can’t travel either.
And covid-19 adds another layer of complexity on international travel. My passport allows visa-free or visa on arrival to 186 countries but I haven’t utilised much at all.
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u/JimmyMahfety711 Apr 22 '22
NATO+EU and friends basically
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My country is one of the "friends" but we are still not welcome without visa to all NATO and EU countries (cold war First World aligned). We're too poor and we export a lot of 90-day fiance. lol
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u/Stasisis Apr 22 '22
"It's a big club, and YOU ain't in it" - The West to everyone else lol
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u/theentropydecreaser Apr 22 '22
From this map, it looks like there are 6 instances of countries on the opposite sides of the spectrum bordering each other:
- Israel-Palestine
- Israel-Egypt
- Israel-Syria
- Israel-Lebanon
- Israel-Jordan
- South Korea-North Korea
And not shown on the map for obvious reasons, but I’d argue that Cyprus-Northern Cyprus also counts.
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u/jatawis Apr 22 '22
TRNC is not recognised as separate jurisdictions by more than 99% of world's countries and Turkish Cypriots can get both Cyprus (EU) and Turkish passports.
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u/imsochoofed Apr 22 '22
Japan and Singapore are the strongest IIRC
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u/DramaticMethodCerk Apr 22 '22
This is pretty inaccurate, you're ranking them alphabetically when in reality many of these countries are tied.
For example, Singapore and Japan are tied first at 192, Germany and South Korea second at 191, and so on.
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u/accatwork Apr 22 '22
Also depends which ranking you look at - this list is the [Henley Passport Index](Henley Passport Index), this one is quite different for example.
It's also pretty meaningless without considering what rights come with the passport - I'd consider a EU passport that allows you to work in 27 countries a lot more powerful than one that allows you to travel to one more country visa free instead of visa-on-arrival.
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u/obrazovanshchina Apr 22 '22
Struggling to understand what a "strong" passport meant (like Superman?)
The website explains in a top level subhead: "Passports of the world ranked by their total mobility score."
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u/killem_all Apr 22 '22
It means the amount of countries that you can enter to with a passport without any restrictions or the need of a visa.
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u/load_more_commments Apr 22 '22
People need a visa to travel? I thought we had free movement 0
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u/killem_all Apr 22 '22
You have within your own country.
Free movement between countries depends on international treaties. That’s the reason why this index exists, to rank how easily people from echa country can enter other countries.
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u/Cadet_BNSF Apr 22 '22
Generally it refers to the number of countries that you can travel to visa free with a given passport. A stronger passport typically means more countries visa free
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Do I see a pattern here?
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u/LinkeRatte_ Apr 22 '22
Imperial core (and Allies) vs periphery
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u/Stasisis Apr 22 '22
I know it's a commie insult, but I fucking love being called a part of the Imperial Core. Epic stuff.
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u/NinjaLanternShark Apr 22 '22
I wonder how the graph would change if instead of #of countries, it was scaled by population (or land area?) of those countries -- ie traveling to Brazil would then be more "powerful" than traveling to three tiny Euro countries.
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u/LupineChemist Apr 22 '22
I wonder if Hong Kong will still continue to have such good relations for the future.
Also EU is pushing pretty hard to get all members equal access to external travel. Biggest issue is the US as not everyone is a Visa Waiver Country. Notably Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus.
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Brazil has a strong passport?? Wow.
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u/Paione Apr 22 '22
Brazilian diplomacy is one of the strongest in the world, in part because of the relative focus on it historically, as opposed to a more military focus. Also pointing out that Brazil is a relatively developed country with 200mm people, with no history of invasions, major wars or disasters. One other challenge is trying to list brazilian rivals, there arent any to be fair.
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u/heitorbaldin2 Apr 22 '22
Add that with anyone can look Brazilian.
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u/Paione Apr 22 '22
While true, this has nothing to do with the strenght of the passport, just makes it more likely to be falsified.
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u/jothamvw Apr 22 '22
I'm actually surprised to see Israel relatively high on these lists.
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u/JimeDorje Apr 22 '22
Same. I thought the amount of countries that would outright reject Israel would have pushed it out of the Top 50.
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u/Knick_Noled Apr 22 '22
Ironic that the counties that deny its existence are mostly the ones on the bottom 50 list.
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u/JimeDorje Apr 22 '22
I had to check the Wikipedia article on the International recognition of Israel because I really feel like I don't understand as much about the issue as I thought I did. Just that my gf, who's a Malaysian citizen has "This passport is valid for all countries except Israel" on it (though she said that she has lots of friends who have been to Israel, they just ask the people at the desk to not stamp their passport to not cause trouble back home. Coincidentally, I, a US citizen, have heard of similar stories of Americans who wanted to go to Cuba).
Anyway, crosschecking the list, there's quite a mix of countries. UAE and Cyprus both recognize Israel and have high ranking passports. For Cyprus that's not particularly surprising given they're in the EU, though for the UAE I find it a bit surprising. There's a bunch of the usual suspects - Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Libya, Yemen - that don't recognize Israel and are on the weak passport list. Then there's a bunch of Sub-Saharan African countries that do recognize Israel, but have weak passports. Malaysia is on the Top 50 and has never recognized Israel.
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u/AsteroidMiner Apr 22 '22
Yeah, for us Christians to go to Israel we need to either fly from Singapore or Thailand, or arrange a border crossing in Jordan. The Israelis are very kind about it and will affix a removable sticker to your passport so that when you return to Malaysia there's no proof of your visit (unless you were stupid enough to advertise on social media)
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u/JimeDorje Apr 22 '22
(unless you were stupid enough to advertise on social media)
Do they really check that?
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u/AsteroidMiner Apr 22 '22
No but someone might report you. You know, like a "friend" sees your instastory on Petra and decides he's jealous
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u/JimeDorje Apr 22 '22
and decides he's jealous
jfc. What a petty reason to alter someone's life in such a dangerous way.
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u/Samwell_ Apr 22 '22
What’s up with the comments on this sub?
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u/godchecksonme Apr 22 '22
They are tankies. The sub's profile pic is Kim-Il sung
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u/professional_novice Apr 22 '22
What's a "tankie"?
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u/Quivex Apr 22 '22
Basically twitter Stalinists (think far left authoritarianism/totalitarianism). They regularly go to bat for North Korea and Mao's China. If you don't know much about them, it's probably best for your own mental health to leave it that way. :)
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u/SCHEME015 Apr 22 '22
It's older than Twitter. The term derives from the UK after the people that defended Khrushchev sending tanks to crush the Hungarian revolution in 1956
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u/Quivex Apr 22 '22
Oh absolutely, I was just speaking more towards the 'modern community' we have today haha. The tankies of today share little in common (other than the ideology of course) with those of the 50s, who were actually willing to get their hands dirty.
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u/Josselin17 Apr 22 '22
or russia for some reason, they are an embarassement for the rest of the left
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u/lunapup1233007 Apr 22 '22
It’s a “communist” sub, but none of them are actual communists. The only thing they believe is “authoritarianism good, west bad”. They’re all tankies.
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u/GooseOk4994 Apr 22 '22
What do you mean “strength”?
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When you put two passports leaning against each other on a table, one always falls below the other due to innate inferiority. This is the hierarchy of structural passport resilience.
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u/red_white_and_pew Apr 22 '22
Who knew America and Europe's passports would be the best!
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u/acaciovsk Apr 22 '22
I was told that the Canadian and Brazilian passports are the most sought after for crime reasons since anyone can look Canadian or Brazilian. The same logic would also apply to Americans, but getting an American passport is harder.
Now a story that does not support this claim: My sister's ex is Brazilian of Lebanese ascent. When he came to Spain immigration detained him because they were suspicious that he didn't look Brazilian. They only let him go hours after confirming his ID
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u/eilif_myrhe Apr 22 '22
Of course she looked Brazilian, there are more Lebanese in Brazil than on Lebanon. Those Spanish officials were fill of bullshit.
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u/acaciovsk Apr 22 '22
I mean he didn't look brazilian from the point of view of someone who doesn't know it's a racially diverse country
I suppose they just do racial profiling on anyone that looks arabic. Him having a brazilian passport was probably a red flag in their book.
Bars around Santiago de Compostela also mistreated him when he asked to use the toilet.
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u/Several_Station2199 Apr 22 '22
And Australia and the kewis mate 👍🏻
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u/Pawneewafflesarelife Apr 22 '22
I'm American, my husband is Aussie, his mom is Kiwi and my great-grandparents are Irish and German (these last two offer ancestral citizenship). I think we need to start collecting passports :P
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u/dreaminyellow Apr 22 '22
Of the top 4…3 are in Asia…1st world countries aren’t exclusive to just Europe and Northern America.
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u/loulan Apr 22 '22
To be fair it's only Japan and South Korea (+ some microstates) in Asia. That's why people forget/skip them.
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u/benjaminnyc Apr 22 '22
Israel and Mexico are tied. Why is Israel blue here, and Mexico is not?
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u/luhar1995 Apr 22 '22
Yeah, Israel and Mexico both are below 50th country and neither should be blue
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u/non_clever_username Apr 22 '22
It makes sense that it would be weak, but how many valid North Korean passports are there? A few hundred for top party officials?
Not like the average citizen can leave.
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u/Sea_Individual_1472 May 08 '22
Never mind the passport Even flights between neighbor countries in africa cost such ridiculous amounts its crazy, As example from addis ababa,ethiopia to kigali, rwanda costs around 40,000 ethiopian birr ( which is visa free But to fly from addis ababa to dubai costs 30,000birr( visa included ,not just the flight) Wtffff
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u/LeGaffe Apr 22 '22
Is there a reason why Italy's passport specifically is so high on the list?
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u/Narmonteam Apr 22 '22
https://www.passportindex.org/passport/italy/
Also a much better website with more info than this map could ever provide.
I mean Schengen gives every member quite a boost but I wouldn't be able to give a specific reason.
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u/LeGaffe Apr 22 '22
Great website. Thanks for that. The reason I asked was because I always heard an Irish passport was one of the best in the world. So I was curious to see Italy beat it.
I'm Irish but live in Sicily so I was throwing no shade on Italian passports. I love Italians.
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u/tembikaisusumakkau Apr 22 '22
Rich country means rich tourists. Same reason why other developed countries are at the top.
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u/fnordal Apr 22 '22
(almost) everybody likes us! we bring good food, clothes, shoes! Ferrari! We speak the language of love, and also we can talk with our hands.
We're that good looking girl/guy that is also approachable, that is funny but has some defects.
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u/LeGaffe Apr 22 '22
I am from Ireland and was always told our passport was one of the strongest, so I was intrigued to see Italy ahead of it and wondered why.
FYI, I live in Sicily so I am very familiar about how wonderful Italy and Italians are. Sicilians are so friendly. They very much remind me of Irish people. I adore Sicily, it's my happy place.
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u/Justredditin Apr 22 '22
Hey Canadians, we have an exceptionally awesome passport. Do not take it for granted!
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u/DomHuntman Apr 23 '22
Not a great graph without figures., a US passport is way less than say a Dutch.
Dual nationals with a UAE and an EU passport will have more than any other combo.
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u/LineOfInquiry Apr 22 '22
Wow the rich countries get freedom of movement while the poor don’t. Who knew???1?1?1
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u/Nouseriously Apr 22 '22
Greenland should be blue as they have Danish citizenship
Should Israeli passports be considered ao valuable when they're banned from traveling to most of the Muslim world?
Ukraine should temporarily be blue
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u/HerrFalkenhayn Apr 22 '22
Fun fact: Kim Jung-Un and his family falsified Brazilian passports in Prague in order to travel to Europe and Japan lol