Anyone born in Japan is welcome almost anywhere in the world without a visa. But our red-white-red passport also opens many borders.
It is something of an imperishable standard work on travel, published regularly by the renowned British consultancy Henley & Partners. Because the institution, which operates from London, has set itself the goal of providing accurate and extremely serious information about investments and “permanent residence”, not only, but above all to the richest and most powerful in the world – from Dubai to Hong Kong to Canada , but also exotic destinations such as Bermuda or Panama …
Asian countries top global passport rankings
However, the Global Pass Index is the most important asset in the company portfolio. The ranking is based on data from the International Aviation Authority (ISTA), which only provides the relevant and most up-to-date information. As usual, this year’s ranking for visa-free travel to 227 different territories sees three Asian countries leading the way – namely Japan, Singapore and – despite the tension with its northern neighbor – South Korea! With one more destination this year, this country pushed Germany from third place.
Even neutral Switzerland is behind us
But even those who show their red-white-red passports can enter 188 countries without a visa – Austria takes 5th place, beating even the United Kingdom, which, despite 55 countries, now belongs to the Commonwealth of Nations (the loose association of former colonies ) ranks 6 (188). Our neighbour, neutral Switzerland (7th/187), and the US are behind us ex equo. Far behind and correspondingly at the bottom of the list is warlike Russia (51/118).
The last place in the ranking
The last place in this incorruptible ranking is not surprising: Afghanistan, whose official state travel document is practically worthless: only 27 countries allow people who want to escape the Taliban dictatorship without having to go to the embassies of the country they are going to want to enter – that is how the diplomatic representations have remained in the country at all – which makes legal departure almost impossible and causes the refugee flow to swell.
Iraqis (second from last with 29) and just ahead of them Syria (30) feel a similar lack of freedom to travel. India, on the other hand, from where many people recently came to us via the Balkan route, is in 80th place (with 60 countries to which you can travel without an official addition in the passport). However, the number of Indians detained in our country has fallen sharply since visa freedom was recently lifted in Serbia.
Source: Krone
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