Passport Strength: Why You Can’t Go To Nice Places

What’s the biggest barrier to traveling the world? Most would say, “the cost of plane tickets,” and they’d be right. But even if you overcome that, another hurdle remains: your passport and its visa privileges.

Passport strength refers to the number of other countries or territories a passport holder can enter without needing a prior visa or with a visa on arrival. People from countries with stronger passports can enter and leave countries (with limitations, of course) without having to go through the long process of obtaining a travel visa. The opposite is true for people with weak passports, as they have to go through weeks or months-long processes to obtain a visa.