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by curiousgal 1856 days ago
On the other hand he can actually take off and go wherever he wants thanks to his American passport.
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underyx 1856 days ago
Ah yes, the world's 45th most powerful passport.

[0]: https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

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anm89 1856 days ago
This is a pretty dishonest way to present this IMO.

I've been traveling for the last 10 years and my American Passport never got in my way, and in exceptionally few cases would anything have been any easier with the passport from the #1 country on the list. Yes a few times I had to fill out some extra paperwork.

America has a VERY STRONG passport. This is a bimodal distribution where most of the passports in each of the groups are equivalent to each other and the US is in group A.

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cm2012 1856 days ago
LOL at United Arab Emirates passport being preferable to the USA.
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dillondoyle 1856 days ago
It seems like this is hugely effected by covid ban right now. A large % of countries that are just enter - italy as an example - are counted as Red given the covid ban.
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underyx 1855 days ago
Yes, OP is thinking about leaving now.
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