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Henley Passport Index – The number of countries holders can travel to visa-free

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Post by akkat »

kockic wrote: post #36
akkat wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can see how there are many political battles in the US simply because Russia bought some political ads and other things that are perfectly legal for US citizens to do. Imagine if Russia literally sent several thousand people to states that allow people to vote without IDs.

That doesn't make any sense, e.g. having a Japanese passport doesn't let you vote in 180 countries you can visit.

Correct, but if Japanese people typically committed crime when in the US, then the US would want to limit the amount of them that enter and evaluate those people before coming.

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Post by akkat »

sohkamyung wrote: post #38
akkat wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

according to your link > No ID required to vote at ballot box: California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C.

That's the top level view. A deep dig in the "Laws by state" section shows that some form of ID is still needed. For example: Maine: No ID needed at polling place if registered to vote at least one day prior to election. However an ID is required to vote if person was registered to vote on the day of the election Massachusetts: Non-photographic ID is accepted at polling stations. Minnesota: Non-photographic ID is acc…

Maine's law is pretty weak. All one has to do is register more than a day before the election and then they don't need an ID. I don't know how easy it is to register in Maine, but California is laughably easy. Just check the boxes saying that you don't have an ID, SSN, address or phone number, and then you can register with very little information.

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Post by acoster »

kalleboo wrote: post #21

This index is missing bonus points for countries you're allowed to not just visit as a tourist but also live and work in visa-free - i.e. giving a boost to Schengen passports. Are there any other countries with similar agreements? The only one I know of is the Nordic Passport Union which includes some non-EU countries.

Some South American countries under Mercosur, which is being slowly replaced by the Union of South American Nations.

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Post by TheArcane »

HeavenFox wrote: post #18
darklajid wrote: post #13

These rankings are the source of a constant joke between my girlfriend and me. She, Singaporean, previously proudly pointed me at these lists to support her claim that the SG passport is the world's best. Over the last couple month the numbers shifted around a bit and for a time my German passport was ranked the same and for a while even higher. Given that I have not a lot of experience with visa issues (due to the p…

You are lucky. I hold a Chinese passport, which is one of the worst when it comes to visa restrictions. The only upside I is I never make any visa mistakes - it’s hard to find out last minute you need a visa, when you need visa to practically anywhere! Every international trip requires careful planning in advance. What countries I am visiting? What kind if visa should I get? When is the consulate open? Is there still…

The worst part is that the visitors visa issued by most of these countries expires after mostly 6 months.

So you wanna visit the UK again with an Indian passport after your last trip in July? Tough luck; go through the whole process again.

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Post by lurker9 »

jk2323 wrote: post #6
pacaro wrote: post #2

More interesting than the list of individual countries, is which dual citizenship’s give the “best” value. I’m eligible for citizenship of at least 4 countries, typically it’s hard to maintain more than dual citizenship, so if this was the vector I wanted to optimize on, which pair would be best?

"typically it’s hard to maintain more than dual citizenship" I am considering taking a 3rd. I am aware of some of the hurdles but out of curiosity, where do you see problems?

I have three, Australia, Eu and a South American country, biggest problem is having to pay for passport renewals and sometimes fulfilling your obligations I.e voting or census. Get as many passports as you can is my recommendation, never know when you might need to flee your country ;)

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Post by varjag »

tallanvor wrote: post #39

One thing I don't like about this is it looks like they consider countries that require an ETA to be visa free, which I don't agree with. To me that's still basically a visa.

The practical difference between visa free and ETA is much less than between ETA and proper visa. You skip embassy/consulate appointment (often two, often for all your family members in person, often in another city or even country), and you often don't pay anything. Many ETAs are done once and for substantial periods, sometimes until your passport's expiry date.

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Post by dx034 »

Muromec wrote: post #32
darklajid wrote: post #13

These rankings are the source of a constant joke between my girlfriend and me. She, Singaporean, previously proudly pointed me at these lists to support her claim that the SG passport is the world's best. Over the last couple month the numbers shifted around a bit and for a time my German passport was ranked the same and for a while even higher. Given that I have not a lot of experience with visa issues (due to the p…

>How expensive/difficult/limiting is it if you need a visa for a lot of locations? That depends. If you go somewhere like Thailand, you fill one-page form, glue your photo and send passport, said form and 40 dollars in envelope to consulate, then pick it up on your way to airport. If you go somewhere like US or EU - that's kind of humiliating. You pay ridiculous fee, fill long form on terribly designed website, trave…

The EU one is Schengen to be precise. UK and Ireland have a separate visa process and the Schengen visa also gets you into some non-EU countries (e.g. Iceland).

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Post by varjag »

HeavenFox wrote: post #18
darklajid wrote: post #13

These rankings are the source of a constant joke between my girlfriend and me. She, Singaporean, previously proudly pointed me at these lists to support her claim that the SG passport is the world's best. Over the last couple month the numbers shifted around a bit and for a time my German passport was ranked the same and for a while even higher. Given that I have not a lot of experience with visa issues (due to the p…

You are lucky. I hold a Chinese passport, which is one of the worst when it comes to visa restrictions. The only upside I is I never make any visa mistakes - it’s hard to find out last minute you need a visa, when you need visa to practically anywhere! Every international trip requires careful planning in advance. What countries I am visiting? What kind if visa should I get? When is the consulate open? Is there still…

> Visa section typically don’t have phone numbers, so you have to send an email and hope for a reply (if you are lucky they have published their address) or go in and ask.

Even when they do it's as good as if they don't. I once needed to check application status for UK tourist visa. The official line was a toll number, it was handled by call center in India, and no, they could not answer my question.

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Post by varjag »

wyattpeak wrote: post #17
darklajid wrote: post #13

These rankings are the source of a constant joke between my girlfriend and me. She, Singaporean, previously proudly pointed me at these lists to support her claim that the SG passport is the world's best. Over the last couple month the numbers shifted around a bit and for a time my German passport was ranked the same and for a while even higher. Given that I have not a lot of experience with visa issues (due to the p…

It's usually not terribly expensive, but difficulty varies between painless and trip-cancelling. Most countries these days will do it online for a nominal fee, easy as pie. If you travel around Africa you'll semi-often find yourself sitting in waiting rooms on touchdown for a few hours while nobody can tell you what's going on, but I've never had an actual problem. The only close shave I've had was Egypt, who require…

> Most countries these days will do it online for a nominal fee, easy as pie.

If by "most" you mean "none of the first world ones".

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