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Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful (cnn.com)
According to the Henley Passport Index, compiled by global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & PartnersCitizens, Japan now has the most powerful passport on the planet. From a report: Having gained visa-free access to Myanmar earlier this month, Japanese citizens can now enjoy visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to a whopping 190 destinations around the world -- knocking Singapore, with 189 destinations, into second place. Germany, which began 2018 in the top spot, is now in third place with 188 destinations, tied with France and South Korea. Uzbekistan lifted visa requirements for French nationals on October 5, having already granted visa-free access to Japanese and Singaporean citizens in early February.
You have false information in there, for example the Chinese invented the match in the 6th century. Maybe you meant to say "safety matches" or "strike anywhere matches", both of those came after the 16th century lighters.
At least one snail species can sleep for five years or more, one specimen did six years.
Whether the passport does more to get you favors or "Out", is more important than "In".
My country (Paraguay) is 34th with visa-free access to 143 destinations. Glad to see it placed so high given the fact that it is a small and relatively unimportant country.
-- Look to the Rose that blows about us--"Lo, Laughing," she says, "into the World I blow..."
Also, the volume of the Pacific Ocean is 714 million km^3.
The volume of the moon is 21.9 billion km^3.
So the moon is bigger by a factor of more than 30.
even all the oceans are only 1.3 billion cubic kilometers. makes sense, the moon is 3,400 km in diameter, it is fucking huge, a quarter of the diameter of earth and oceans are less than 4km in average depth.
Japanese citizens can now enjoy visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to a whopping 190 destinations around the world ...
MasterCard ecstatic.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
...as an American citizen, I can be arrested for visiting Cuba, 90 miles away. Why? Something, something Communism.....
We once sent 1.5 million Americans to Vietnam with no passports whatsoever! They were not pleased, to say the least.
It is a start to recognize visa-free is a good thing. But their list ought not to simply count countries, but weigh them by something -- population, GDP, area, /. postings, ... ). Simple binary dot-product.
After all, visa-free to Russia or China is more useful than visa-free to Uzbekistan or Mongolia for most people.
This rating is only for visa-free travel. Passport of the EU country doesn't only give you visa-free access to the majority of countries but also a right to live and work in any of the 28 member states. That should be really top rated but it isn't. (and yeah, good bye UK, you got what you deserve for your ultimate stupidity)
Here is all the water on earth in a sphere.
Britain will have no agreements with any nations so the British passport will be by far the worst passport to have.
Britain has never been part of Schengen, so Brexit will have no effect on visa agreements.
Japan's 190 countries versus the US and UK's 186 countries - that's not really much of a difference.
Don't forget next year the UK drops by 25 countries.
When I read the headline, I wondered if Japanese passports now transformed into some sort of giant mecha creature.
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Britain has never been part of Schengen, so Brexit will have no effect on visa agreements.
British citizens are currently EU citizens, so they don't need a Schengen visa. But might after Brexit.
I think an agreement will be made with most if not all those countries.
Why would you think that? One side wants a deal, the other does not. Therefore there will not be a deal.
Aint nobody gettin' in here without a visa, filled out in triplicate.
Except those pesky Kiwis, but we have been sending them back pretty sharply recently.
And there are so many other countries that charge us for nasty visas when they do not charge anyone else...
That is one MASSIVE water balloon! Now we need to figure out the size of the funnelator needed to shoot that thing to Mars....
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Why do you think the UK would have a worse passport Visa deal than the US?
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Thank you. I learnt more from this your post than I did in the 10 previous years of Slashdot + comments.
Many of those aren't true.
No sig today...
Also, there's words that rhyme with "month".
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Why would you think "the other does not"? Do EU countries hate tourism pounds?
They are not going to do a deal because they want to show any other waverers what happens if you leave the EU.
The tourism money is going to come regardless, Europe is a couple of hours drive away for the UK. where else are they going to go?
Given that this can be appended to any paragraph, that was redundant.
For the very good reason that the US did not vote to leave the EU.
Many of those aren't true.
13% of internet statistics are just made up.
Also, there's words that rhyme with "month".
I'd be more inclined to believe you if you could conjugate for a plural.
What did you think I meant by "redundant"?
Still the US is a comparably sized (whether you measure by land area, population or economy size) area to choose a place to live and work within to the EU as a whole.
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Ayup. When Germany sent 7 million passportless people to Russia, they responded by chasing them back with 15 million. So history shows that travel without a passport tends to be frowned apon.
The passport owned to Chuck Norris, it makes all over passports run for the shredder
If there is no deal the British citizens could need some kind of visa or pre-check to visit the EU.
There are other benefits we will likely lose either way, such as access to EU healthcare systems on a reciprocal basis. No need to get travel health insurance, just a free EHCI card at the moment.
No deal will have other severe travel consequences, such as UK based airlines losing approval to fly in the EU and British citizens with family members from the EU being torn away from them until they can arrange further visas, which is currently almost impossible for many in the UK.
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As a japanese resident of over 20 years I still wouldn't give up my current citizenship to naturalize even though it'd be easy.
I looked my country up, being curious.
169 destinations, pretty darn good. I can't travel without a visa to many Asian countries and notably the US of A.
So this "most powerful passport" became a game of "let's find some very small country and close a deal with them" for those countries vying for the top position.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
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Q: What is the first person singular pronoun?
A: "I."
Q: Is the quoted factoid correct?
A: "No."
I think an agreement will be made with most if not all those countries.
Why would you think that? One side wants a deal, the other does not. Therefore there will not be a deal.
In a "No Deal" scenario, which the Tory's seem to be insanely intent on trying for, the UK will just join other non-EEC nations as part of the Schengen visa waiver scheme. So basically it'll be the same as an Australian, Canadian or American visiting the EU (IIRC, 90 days staying in the EU before requiring a visa). The EU is prepared for life without the UK.
Of course residents of the UK wont be able to afford to travel after Brexitl.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
now imagine another ball of water with 1/4 the diameter of earth, that's the moon. that amount of water on the earth would reach satellites
I thought the UK left the EU to take back control of their borders. That means visas.
After Brexit, Britain will lose automatic freedom of movement with 26 countries. They'll have to apply for limited visas, at a cost, to get into countries they used to be able to just walk into. This seriously degrades the status of the British passport.