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The original source[1] of the news article provides a lot more detail and information. Interesting that a British passport has climbed up in the ranking two pla

The original source[1] of the news article provides a lot more detail and information. Interesting that a British passport has climbed up in the ranking two places to 4th place, despite Brexit, while the US passport is declining. The company also has a useful database of all passports you can check for your own passports and see what countries you can enter visa-free.[2] [1]: https://www.henleyglobal.com/newsroom/press-releases/2023-passport-index-global-mobility-q3 [2]: https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index

delfinom 3y ago
Europe went tit for tat during some of the 2016+ debacles when it came to visas and basically is requiring all US visitors get visas starting from 2024. So that's going to be some of the mobility decline for US travelers
- subliminalpanda 3y ago
  Not visas but electronic travel authorizations.
RetroTechie 3y ago
In general, countries that rank high in this index, are countries that "work well" with the 'community of nations'. Regardless how one may feel about that. In my case (Dutch passport): the Netherlands is a member of many inter-governmental organizations, regarded as trustworthy & often working to advance common goals. Longtime stable democracy, financial & (mostly) functional legal system. And thus travellers carrying a Dutch passport are welcomed in many places. It's easy to see that for example socialist-leaning nations may not be 'liked' by the US (and vice versa, often for good reasons), and prefer to go their own way. I don't judge / have no beef with that. A sovereign state is just that. But net result may well be that such a country takes part in fewer trade agreements, is a member of fewer 'country communities', and has less-friendly relations with some other countries. And for example an assortment of African countries may be recovering from colonial history, or too busy with internal problems to focus much on international relations. Again: no judgement here. It is what it is. But these things are exactly what tends to produce lower rankings. Rub some countries the wrong way, and find your citizens are less welcome there.
WordSkill 3y ago
British company. They are rigging the results by not counting the new restrictions on UK citizens entering and operating within 27 EU countries, including the 5 countries they visit most: Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and Portugal. No honest person would claim that the UK passport is equal to the Danish, Irish, or Dutch passport. Absurd. I am not aware of even one country, anywhere in the world, that has made entry easier for UK citizens following Brexit. Certainly, nothing has happened over the past year to justify the UK rising in the ranks. I have a UK passport but, even before Brexit, found it more pragmatic to travel on my Irish passport. British tourists have long had a somewhat tarnished reputation and, in some countries, resentments still linger from Britain's rather brutal past. Since Brexit, over a million UK citizens have applied for and received Irish passports, giving them back the EU citizenship rights they had before Brexit.

delfinom 3y ago

Europe went tit for tat during some of the 2016+ debacles when it came to visas and basically is requiring all US visitors get visas starting from 2024. So that's going to be some of the mobility decline for US travelers

subliminalpanda 3y ago
Not visas but electronic travel authorizations.

RetroTechie 3y ago

In general, countries that rank high in this index, are countries that "work well" with the 'community of nations'. Regardless how one may feel about that. In my case (Dutch passport): the Netherlands is a member of many inter-governmental organizations, regarded as trustworthy & often working to advance common goals. Longtime stable democracy, financial & (mostly) functional legal system. And thus travellers carrying a Dutch passport are welcomed in many places. It's easy to see that for example socialist-leaning nations may not be 'liked' by the US (and vice versa, often for good reasons), and prefer to go their own way. I don't judge / have no beef with that. A sovereign state is just that. But net result may well be that such a country takes part in fewer trade agreements, is a member of fewer 'country communities', and has less-friendly relations with some other countries. And for example an assortment of African countries may be recovering from colonial history, or too busy with internal problems to focus much on international relations. Again: no judgement here. It is what it is. But these things are exactly what tends to produce lower rankings. Rub some countries the wrong way, and find your citizens are less welcome there.

WordSkill 3y ago

British company. They are rigging the results by not counting the new restrictions on UK citizens entering and operating within 27 EU countries, including the 5 countries they visit most: Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and Portugal. No honest person would claim that the UK passport is equal to the Danish, Irish, or Dutch passport. Absurd. I am not aware of even one country, anywhere in the world, that has made entry easier for UK citizens following Brexit. Certainly, nothing has happened over the past year to justify the UK rising in the ranks. I have a UK passport but, even before Brexit, found it more pragmatic to travel on my Irish passport. British tourists have long had a somewhat tarnished reputation and, in some countries, resentments still linger from Britain's rather brutal past. Since Brexit, over a million UK citizens have applied for and received Irish passports, giving them back the EU citizenship rights they had before Brexit.