CNN: Best and worst passports
Apr 19, 2016, 8:36 am
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No missing zero. A US passport lets you into 174 countries without a visa. A German passport lets you into 177. Those are the numbers in the original article. If they're wrong, they're wrong, but CPRich cited the article correctly, and they're not likely to be off by a factor of 10.
That said, it's unlikely that the list for Germany is the U.S. list plus three. There's surely a great deal of overlap, but I suspect that some countries allow U.S. visitors without visas but not Germans, and other countries (three more) allow German visitors without visas but not Yanks.
That said, it's unlikely that the list for Germany is the U.S. list plus three. There's surely a great deal of overlap, but I suspect that some countries allow U.S. visitors without visas but not Germans, and other countries (three more) allow German visitors without visas but not Yanks.
Apr 21, 2016, 6:48 pm
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Apr 22, 2016, 10:42 am
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I think that counting the countries you can travel to without a visa, is too simple.
Taking into account how long the passport stays valid and how it is perceived abroad is much more important (to me at least).
Taking into account how long the passport stays valid and how it is perceived abroad is much more important (to me at least).
Apr 22, 2016, 5:28 pm
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Or, in the post-H.R. 158 (VWP enhancements) world, whether that passport invalidates the eVisa/ESTA privileges that one's dual nationality passport is ordinarily entitled to. For that matter, one could also look at how frequently a given passport tends be suspended or revoked over trivial matters, like attending a sporting event intended for the opposite sex (Iran) or accumulating a tax debt that exceeds your lifetime earnings simply because you simply didn't know you were required to disclose bank accounts in your foreign country of residence (USA).
Apr 30, 2016, 9:24 am
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I'm curious which country allows easier entry to German passport users than to Swedish passport users.
May 5, 2016, 9:14 am
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I think the best passport is one that gets you into most countries that you're most likely to visit (for tourism) without a visa. The absolute number is irrelevant because it considers the likelihood of someone traveling to London is the same as Kabul.
May 6, 2016, 2:36 pm
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I actually started working on a website where the user enters their country of residence, the country they would like to visit, and then the computer returns whether they will need a visa. I got tired of coding it but if there's any interest I'll finish the project!
May 6, 2016, 10:09 pm
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Isn't that the same as what VisaHQ does?
http://www.emirates.com/english/plan...uirements.aspx
May 7, 2016, 1:01 am
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Several airlines offer similar tools which cover all nationalities. I use Emirates one here:
http://www.emirates.com/english/plan...uirements.aspx
http://www.emirates.com/english/plan...uirements.aspx
May 7, 2016, 1:55 am
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Is this incorrect or out of date?
May 7, 2016, 2:21 am
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Visa
Visa required.
Visa Exemptions:
Passengers with a British passport for a maximum stay of 30 days.
Visa required.
Visa Exemptions:
Passengers with a British passport for a maximum stay of 30 days.
Should have read it more carefully.
And you still cannot cross land borders without a visa (such as on Timor).
May 7, 2016, 6:34 am
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It's pretty irrelevant with lists like this. There's cases when a passport of Turkey, Kenya, Russia, Qatar etc. would be more convinient for country hunting. Yes, I can certainly apply for a visa, but the visa policies are at times absurd or just getting that application sorted out is a PIA.