{"id":7628,"date":"2016-09-01T17:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2016-09-01T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:58:10","slug":"german-passport-most-powerful-in-the-world-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/german-passport-most-powerful-in-the-world-hp\/","title":{"rendered":"German passport, most powerful in the world \u2014 H&amp;P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">If you\u2019re a German\u00a0citizen and you often travel in and out of Germany, then congratulations! You\u2019re holding the world\u2019s most powerful passports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7633\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/Biometrie_reisepass_deutsch.jpg\" alt=\"Biometrie_reisepass_deutsch\" width=\"611\" height=\"850\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><em> THE MOST POWERFUL. You can visit 177 countries without a visa if you have this as your passport. (Image grabbed from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Biometrie_reisepass_deutsch.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In a study done by international citizenship and planning firm Henley and Partners, the German passport ranked first\u00a0out of the 199 countries listed, with German passport holders able to visit 177 out of a total of 218.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">It toppled 3-time frontrunner United Kingdom (UK), which shared the third spot with France, Italy, Spain, and Finland, whose citizens\/passport-holderse can visit 175 countries without a visa. Swedish passports came in second with 176.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The United States, on the other hand, shares the fourth spot with Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands with 174 visa-free destinations. Japan, Austria, and Singapore ranked 5th, with their passports giving\u00a0visa-free entry to 173 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The newly redesigned Philippine passport gives Filipinos visa-free access to 30 countries, which ranks 76<sup>th<\/sup> overall. The least powerful passport for 2016 is war-torn Afghanistan, which only allows visa-free entry for 25 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/visaindex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>visaindex.com<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/travel\/articles\/705773\/powerful-passports-revealed-british-visa-application-country\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Express<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/lists\/The-worlds-most-powerful-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a German\u00a0citizen and you often travel in and out of Germany, then congratulations! You\u2019re holding the world\u2019s most powerful passports. \u00a0 THE MOST POWERFUL. You can visit 177 countries without a visa if you have this as your passport. (Image grabbed from Wikimedia Commons) \u00a0 In a study done by international citizenship and planning firm Henley and Partners, the German passport ranked first\u00a0out of the 199 countries listed, with German passport holders able to visit 177 out of a total of 218. It toppled 3-time frontrunner United Kingdom (UK), which shared the third spot with France, Italy, Spain, and Finland, whose citizens\/passport-holderse can visit 175 countries without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/Biometrie_reisepass_deutsch-e1472723692189.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}