(No cheating) which country do you think has the most powerful passport?

[waitingindepartures]

As in they can enter nations visa free, or with visa-on-arrival.

I just saw an article about it. That country wouldn’t have been my first guess.

I thought it was essentially three, Singapore, South Korea and Japan

Ireland is a good one but from your post that must not be top of the list

Japan?

My guess would be Singapore

Finland?

I would be quite happy with a Swiss passport I think.

Japan.

Japan

Luxembourg?

USA

Its Japan. Tom Swarbrick was talking about it on LBC the other day

Japan

Japan definitely - my friends son holds a Japanese passport

From your title I was going to guess Japan.
Think the Singapore, S Korea, Swiss and Irish ones are excellent guesses.

What is the answer?

That’s number 6. It was my first guess too. I won’t post the answer but here’s a link to it.

travelobiz.com/global-passport-ranking-check-worlds-10-most-powerful-and-worst-passports-in-2022/amp/

I ended up googling it 🙈

Always used to be Japan.

Japan.

The UK's passport power is falling.

I would say top 5 are:

Singapore (got to be hasn’t it?)
Japan
Luxembourg / Ireland (tie)
Germany

Really surprised USA is as high as 6 to be honest.

Technically speaking USA isn’t 6th, it’s -6th as 15 more powerful…! Pet hate of mine. Like when they award joint 1st then 2nd place 😄

16th

And this right here is why I hate Mumsnet and why there are other chat forums that mock it.

somebody’s tired 😆

Not a lot in that list, reality is that western passports open doors. Try having a non western passport (but permanent residency in the U.K.) my friends struggle to go to many places.

And this, right here, is why I love mumsnet. Because there are intelligent people who can show different ways of counting things/calculating things/different opinions, and post in the hope their points of view can be considered and discussed, hopefully without mocking.