It’s easy for Americans, who hold one of the strongest passports in the world
And you are currently only on #7 with 25 countries in front of you. But yeah, I agree, I have a German passport, and Visa’s are usually something I receive when the plane lands. My wife is South African, and it’s very different. While I was able to stay in SA for up to half a year (90 days on arrival, informal extension for an extra 90 days), for her, it required a letter of obligation I had to sign (with fun stuff like “you are responsible to get her body back to SA if she dies here!”), and it required quite a few documents, weeks of waiting, etc.
I looked it up and I think we dropped to 9th this year, 8th last, but then Japan dropped by 4 putting Singapore in the top slot all by itself. I was chatting with a Senegalese poster on reddit a while back and the hoops he would have to jump through to enter the EU as a tourist are crazy, and it takes months to accomplish. I get the reasons for visas, but three’s a part of me that is baffled at how humans drew imaginary lines on dirt and then spend a non-trivial fraction of our waking time making sure people don’t go on the wrong side of them.
I looked it up and I think we dropped to 9th this year, 8th last, but then Japan dropped by 4 putting Singapore in the top slot all by itself.
I linked to the wiki page for the Henley Passport Index which has the USA on #7 for 2023, other reports use different measurements sometimes. Singapore is still first with 2 more points than us in Germany ;)
Yeah, it’s kind of a pissing contest in the top ten. I saw another list with us one below Canada and I assumed it was probably our (now useless, decades long) tiff with Cuba that put them ahead. Several of the places on my bucket list are on the difficult list for USA, but I also don’t really feel safe enough to travel there, nor do I expect them to become (politically) friendly in my traveling lifetime. It’s okay, though - I probably don’t have enough money to see everywhere I’d like to go anyway.
And you are currently only on #7 with 25 countries in front of you. But yeah, I agree, I have a German passport, and Visa’s are usually something I receive when the plane lands. My wife is South African, and it’s very different. While I was able to stay in SA for up to half a year (90 days on arrival, informal extension for an extra 90 days), for her, it required a letter of obligation I had to sign (with fun stuff like “you are responsible to get her body back to SA if she dies here!”), and it required quite a few documents, weeks of waiting, etc.
I looked it up and I think we dropped to 9th this year, 8th last, but then Japan dropped by 4 putting Singapore in the top slot all by itself. I was chatting with a Senegalese poster on reddit a while back and the hoops he would have to jump through to enter the EU as a tourist are crazy, and it takes months to accomplish. I get the reasons for visas, but three’s a part of me that is baffled at how humans drew imaginary lines on dirt and then spend a non-trivial fraction of our waking time making sure people don’t go on the wrong side of them.
I linked to the wiki page for the Henley Passport Index which has the USA on #7 for 2023, other reports use different measurements sometimes. Singapore is still first with 2 more points than us in Germany ;)
Yeah, it’s kind of a pissing contest in the top ten. I saw another list with us one below Canada and I assumed it was probably our (now useless, decades long) tiff with Cuba that put them ahead. Several of the places on my bucket list are on the difficult list for USA, but I also don’t really feel safe enough to travel there, nor do I expect them to become (politically) friendly in my traveling lifetime. It’s okay, though - I probably don’t have enough money to see everywhere I’d like to go anyway.
Nice, my country is on the 5th place/rank/whatever. I expected top 20 or maybe top 10, but top 5 is definitely great.