World's Most Powerful Passports for 2025

[@TravelingwithKristin]

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[@BluzCue]

Kristen...Great video but you made a mistake in the 5 place spot...you put up the Austria Flag instead of the Australian flag

[@LensForgotten]

Kristen your channel rocks. Subbed. I like how you open our minds to options. I also appreciate you recognize the declines here in the US

[@stacywilson2199]

Thankful for my US Passport. Maybe not the best, but it definitely allows for most of the places I want to go. Great video. Thank you, Kristen.

[@TravelingwithKristin]

I agree! It’s good to have a passport that lets you travel freely. Thanks for watching!

[@scottman895]

Great video! It is really interesting to see how strong the Singaporean passport really is!

[@rastaph]

U.S. currently, but in the process of getting my Italian citizenship through lineage. So, hopefully I will have an Italian passport as well as a U.S. passport.

[@GretaSzilvasi]

Such a great video and summary!! Regards, a Hungarian.:)

[@koehf405]

I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. thanks

[@TravelingwithKristin]

Thanks, you too! Happy holidays

[@EmpireRules]

Awesome video, Kristine! So much great info. You must have spent countless hours gathering it all. Thank you! DANG! Singapore 🇸🇬 has surpassed Nippon 🇯🇵. Unbelievable! The first thing I noticed at Singapore’s spectacular Changi Airport was how polite and efficient everyone was-unlike in the U.S., where, as a citizen, I sometimes feel like I’m being treated as if I’ve done something wrong when returning stateside from overseas 😂. Well deserved, Singapore! I’m sure you’ve been there. Sentosa Island, bustling Orchard Road, the Bird Park, and the iconic Merlion statue-all so clean! Have you been to the Night Safari? It’s a slow-moving, spooky nocturnal tram ride, and with its 2,500 resident animals, you never know who might be lurking around the bend 😂. Shhh! Be vewy, vewy quiet; we’re hunting wabbits 😂.

[@lukeneilson9799]

As a UK citizen. I should say that because of the historic Common Travel Area, it means that UK Passport Holiders can live and work in Ireland freely and same applies for Irish citizens the other way round. Being 4th is a pleasant surprise, however it would have been even better if it wasn't for Brexit 😅. Thank you for the info.

[@terry4801]

Thanks, Kristen for this video. One bonus the Irish passport has over the rest in 3rd place is that Ireland is part of the Common Travel Area with the UK. This means that citizens of both countries can travel, work and live in each other's nations without any permit requirements. This hasn't changed since Brexit. Also, Irish passport holders are part of the EU, which is why I have finally decided to acquire said passport. I'm a Londoner, born here, to Irish parents. It took me 3 months and £320 to get it, what with the notarised documents, etc. The GP and dentists don't sign the Personal Identifier Forms anymore. You have to go to a Notary Office. They do a very good job, though, for the price that they charge. 1st document £120 and 2nd £60 on average. I'm very happy to be a EU citizen again.

[@robertpuente3505]

Great video. Very helpful information. Great dress

[@magellan8449]

My passport from Mordor isn't even in the Top 200. 😉 But seriously, I'm among the countries in 2nd place and just realized I should take more advantage of travelling to the extremely remote territories in the Caribbean etc who still belong to the EU, like Guadeloupe, Réunion, the Azores, or Martinique. Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

[@AdamGordon1977]

Team Europe is strong at the moment.

[@TravelingwithKristin]

🏆

[@cindyk3076]

Wow, very interesting, not what I would have guessed. Thanks!

[@DinoGithens]

Great video, awesome information, greatly appreciated...

[@DarkDennis1961]

I spent a year in Georgia 🇬🇪 visa free. I recommend it

[@kristine4038]

I am Amazingly Proud to be Singaporean 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬

[@DutchinBrazil]

Thanks 🙏

[@TravelingwithKristin]

You’re welcome 😊

[@isd605]

Thank you! So, you are providing this information for the purpose of assisting us with acquiring one these Passports?

[@erickarnell]

The places I can't get to are places I'm not interested in being in.

[@adamjosephyoungdokim7667]

Corrections: According to Henley & Passport Index, Canadians can stay in South Africa for up to 90 days. However, citizens of Peru, Thailand, Hungary, South Korea, and other countries can only stay for up to 30 days.

[@jaredlash5002]

Fifth place was introduced as being Portugal and Austria (even used the Austrian flag), but all the information was for Australia., not Austria.

[@FlymanMS]

American moment.

[@Daydreamologist]

Wasn’t expecting the U.S. airport to be on the decline. Thanks for the info!

[@TravelingwithKristin]

Right!? Hopefully we can bounce back soon.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Welp, so much for my passport getting me to North Korea, dammit, LOL.

[@le_th_]

Having spent most of my adult life traveling internationally since 1991, the concept of passport strength is pretty absurd. These human-manufactured "tiers" are just another way to rank things from superior to inferior, which is right out of every narcissists play book: they need to walk in a room and rank everyone and everything they see. So, sure...this is great for narcissists and fairly irrelevant to anyone who is not a narcissist because we don't care about rankings, or tiers, or superiority over others. That said, passports are a *fairly modern* (i.e. 1920) way to control people and to attempt to keep governments in line by threatening world leaders with sanctions on their population's ability to travel, and the citizens of any country are largely NOT responsible for the actions taken by their leaders, so it does little to nothing to keep world leaders in line. Prior to 1920, people traveled and stayed wherever they wanted to visit for as long as they cold afford to do so. So much for modernity being more advanced.

[@Wildwildmint]

I know right. The concept of "borders" and claiming land to yourself and gatekeeping the planet is weird to me. I understand territory, maybe, but a random piece of land not occupied by anyone? :/ Nationalism is also a strange concept to me. All those concepts benefit a select few elites and harm the majority of the people.

[@MeetConservatives]

"Prior to 1920, people traveled and stayed wherever they wanted to" ... That's not true at all. Contrary to that, in medieval times and long before, every city had walls that kept unwanted people out. Later, many people lived in serfdom or even slavery, and were disallowed from leaving their home town. The freedom that people enjoy now, especially in the Western world, is absolutely unparralleled to what people had before.

[@MeetConservatives]

@@Wildwildmint Nationalism can help ensure that people who have nothing still find a way to sustain life. If you were born an orphan, which society would you rather live in - a nation that protects its citizens, offering orphans an orphanage and later perhaps wellfare, health care, etc. - or a society where everyone only helps themselves and their immediate family?

[@hikingviking859]

Exactly! The citizens are punished and not the leaders.

[@hectorcyre7664]

Kristen - just curious, why do you use the term "up to 90 days" in some cases and "up to three months" in others? Is it just a matter of how a country may have worded the stay allowances in their codes and laws?

[@BrandonLeeBrown]

Most powerful and strongest are not the correct terms for passports. If your country doesn't have good, strong diplomatic relations with another country, it's likely not a good choice for you travel there.

[@TheColdViking]

Norway's ranking is artificially low because Norwegian passport holders can visit China for 30 days without a visa, and this change occurred after the index was published. Another issue with this index is that it doesn't account for the value of the countries that citizens can visit. Personally, I would prefer visa-free access to China over access to a small, obscure country that few people care about.

[@sunny2355]

Canadian 🇨🇦guy with a Singapore 🇸🇬 husband 😅

[@thomasdundon4093]

I didn't even know "strongest passport" was a thing.😂 I assume there is a lot of overlap between the list of countries each passport can access. Which passport has the most unusual list of countries it can access? (I know "unusual" is subjective.)

[@YogaBlissDance]

Google Henley report and you'll see the page with listing.

[@travelvideos]

US nationals have to pay taxes on worldwide income. In the future, this policy will probably be implemented in Europe too. Not that Europeans be able to make as much money abroad as Americans, but we are easily pushed around because we don't care. That will make European passports less attractive.

[@arnoldbailey7550]

With talks of the US no longer allowing duel citizenship and the new administration about to impose tariffs and restrict travel of certain religions, I do not see the US remaining in the top 10 of the list. It will be interesting to watch.

[@erickarnell]

I haven't heard about limiting travel based on religion . What's the source for this?

[@cosycoffeee]

This is misinformation. The U.S. is not getting rid of dual-citizenship lol.

[@terryschima4964]

I want to return to the time where no systems of slavery, er, um, I mean passports are required, any anyone can go anywhere. Maybe I’d have better luck going to Mars.

[@njnikusha]

As a Georgian we have extra love for USA