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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.
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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.....
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)
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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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.
You know that Australia is 7th on the list right?
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?
Also, there's words that rhyme with "month".
I'd be more inclined to believe you if you could conjugate for a plural.
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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