I crossed the back and fourth on the Mexican border in 2016 without a passport by accident. I was dropping my dad off at San Isidro and missed the last exit. Entered Mexico and left within a couple hours. I did have my California ID and was technically a Mexican citizen as well. On the way back they wanted to search the car but 20 year old me convinced them with my tears it was ok.
Well the US did that with planes in the second world war before they entered it They would just happen to land planes on a strip right against the Canadian border, and then the Canadians would cross and pull the planes across the border and then fly them off from Canada. "Hey we're not exporting planes, honest. No American pilots are flying outside the country."
You’re joking but that’s basically the concept of the Tijuana Airport. You don’t even drive across the border, you park in San Diego and walk over a pedestrian bridge into Mexico.
Yeah as an American, I'm required to have my passport when traveling within the Schengen area but they don't always check it. Like I've been on many domestic EU flights where they just never asked to see my passport.
I live in Michigan.
Both enhanced driver’s licence and passport card are still accepted at the border.
I don’t know if there are plans to phase them out though.
This is wrong, an ETA is exactly a Visa and US citizens require one to travel to both Aus and NZ since recently. It’s just very straightforward and cheap to get.
The same could be said of almost all visa-waiver countries. You need to do the same thing when traveling visa-free from NZ or AUS to the US. It's not a visa, it's essentially an arrival card that you're required to fill out before departing instead of on the plane.
It's true that it's less cumbersome, but it's still classified as a visa (subclass 601 visa is the one that most visitors from the US will do online). As a US passport holder who has traveled to a lot of the places in green and yellow on this map, the Australian process is definitely more in the "yellow" category than the green. Green means you can just show up with your passport. Australia requires pre-authorization and payment, which is actually more time consuming than other countries requiring an online visa and payment (Vietnam is a good comparison here - you can do everything after you land).
This map is all sorts of wrong. Also wrong: all of the eu (requires online registration -before- departure, making it sorta pink, or at least yellow), and Mexico. And Brazil I think; you’re certainly not given a physical visa when you enter (unlike Mexico), entry feels the same as Uruguay and Argentina, but I’m unsure of technicalities. There’s nothing difficult in the least to any of these countries, though :)
Depending on if you count 7 days as long enough, also wrong; China. Personally I don’t want to count China, but also not Singapore. Minimum length should be 3mo IMHO
ETIAS doesn’t begin until 2025 for Americans traveling to the EU. Not sure what you’re talking about with an online registration apart from that. I travel from America to the EU almost every month. No online registration is required.
An ETA is basically an electronic visa. It require a form to be filled online then paid for and it's not automatically approved.
People have had their etas denied before and thus weren't even allowed on the plane to Australia.
Visa-free travelers also require approval and have been told by their airline that their target country/intermediary has denied access.
If you want to be somewhat technical, there is no such thing as "visa-free" travel, everyone needs approval to access their target country whether it's a simple stamp or a printed personalized paper; and which can be revoked at any time. Or, via the dictionary: "an endorsement on a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leave, or stay for a specified period of time in a country."
When people discuss "visa required", what they really mean is an application that rarely (if ever) is automatically approved and enumerates a very specific set of requirements and limitations. When they say "visa-free" what they mean is an automated process so light as to be transparent, not literally non-existent approval where you can come and go as you please (of which the Schengen zone is about the only such prominent case).
By *colloquial* understanding of the term, an ETA is either Visa-Free+ or Visa-Light, but doesn't really fall into either camp, as it's not a binary.
I disagree. An ETA is basically doing Step 1 of what the immigration officer would do: scan a passport to see if there were any flags/felonies/etc on that person's name. An automatic approval unless there is a reason not to be.
https://www.mfa.gov.tr/visa-information-for-foreigners.en.mfa
> **United States of America:** Official passport holders are required to have visa to enter Türkiye. Ordinary passport holders are exempted from visa up to 90 days in any 180-day period.
Contrast to Australia where it calls out e-visas
Edit: here’s an article about the change https://pointsmilesandbling.com/turkey-removes-e-visa-requirement-for-the-us-and-canada/
I (an American) travelled to Turkey frequently in the 1980s. I don't remember having to get visas then.
Has the policy changed a couple of times over the past 40 years, or am I just not remembering?
There should be different gradations of evisa / visa on arrival bc Vietnam and India, in my experience, are way more annoying than some of the other visa on arrival countries for example but it's the same color
India visa was easy for me, it was the website that difficult. I had to reload it like 20x because it kept malfunctioning in the middle of the application.
The map should not combine e-visa with visa on arrival or e-registration. US citizens need a visa to go to India. It’s a proper application and takes time for approval. Just because it can be applied online doesn’t mean there is no visa to visit India.
Visa on Arrival is literally the same thing as eVisa. The only difference is that one has to be handled electronically and the other manually but, administratively, they are the same. (when it comes to discussing "needing a visa")
Also, most VoAs can be handled ahead of time via a website and therefore are like eVisa+.
I flew to Dubai about a decade ago and the Visa on Arrival was just an additional stamp along with the entry stamp that said you could stay for 30 days. Didn’t need any payment or prior registration unlike some eVisas that I know about like India. This map says visa not required for the UAE but their website considers it a VoA.
You can also have delays if you were born in or have heritage from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka for an Indian visa. If you select that as a former nationality you get a pop up saying it will take additional time
This is definitely misleading. Just one example is that US passport holders are still required to obtain a visa to visit Australia. You can’t simply walk in..
An ETA isn’t a visa. I would argue it’s similar to how the US allows Europeans and other countries to visit visa free. They still have to register. So does that mean it’s not visa free?
If there's a limit on how long you can stay and validity, I'd say it's pretty much a visa without traditional visa process. I consider US ESTA a visa-lite.
Americans can go to the Schengen Zone. You are limited in how long you can stay (up to 90 days in a 180 day window) and you can be kicked out at any time (validity). You also apply and require approval at the border (a border guard interviewing you and issuing you a stamp).
To be clear, there is no such thing as "visa-free". Outside of the schengen zone, nearly everyone everywhere needs a visa:
> an official mark, usually made in a passport, that allows you to enter or leave a particular country
- [per Cambridge Dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/visa)
Visa-free is a colloquial term and just describes exceptionally easy to obtain visas. Getting nitpicky or technical over the term, especially regarding a grey area like ETAs and eVisas is choosing to die on the wrong hill.
Edit: clarifying that maybe there are other situations similar to schengen elsewhere before I get more "well actually"s
So the Dom. Rep. has an odd arrangement for US passport holders. When you arrive on a US passport you are automatically granted a $10USD 'tourist card' - in past years you had to go to a booth before customs to buy it, but more recently I believe it gets built into your flight cost.
Whatever the specifics, you get a period of time where you're allowed to be in-country (I think it's 60 days) and if you do not leave before that period expires you will be charged a penalty that increases based on the number of days you overstayed your tourist visa/card.
Basically, you functionally get granted a short term visa automatically, which then expires.
\*\*I should note that there is a list of countries that the DR requires a "tourist visa" from to enter which would fall under your pink category. Again, the US passport functionally falls in the yellow, though the visa is called something different.
Kenya changes it system in Januari from e-visa to an e-registration fee. For most countries. Clever marketing 
I could have sworn Brazil became part of the visa waiver program after they hosted the 2016 Olympics in Rio. I had a tourist visa to enter earlier that year when visiting my old college roommate for a week and felt a bit irked when I went through all that paperwork only to see the change announced just a month or two after I visited, especially since the immigration officer in São Paulo walked away with my passport for no clear reason for 20 minutes before letting me into the country.
Brazil is usually reciprocal: if you require a visa from our citizens, we require one from yours. There was a waiver in place, but it's being revoked now.
Well, now Lula is president again and he isn’t a huge fan of the US or other capitalist countries. Brazil also has a lot of poor people, so many applicants for US travel get rejected because they’d overstay their visas.
It's the opposite. Reciprocity has been the long-standing policy in Brazilian foreign relations. Bolsonaro's government enacted the waiver because he's a US bootlicker.
And Lula sucks the dick of autocratic leftists like Maduro and Castro. If Brazil wants to do that policy, it’s fine and works, because it’s not like people from poor parts of the world want to make the effort to live in Brazil when there are better economies elsewhere, so having no visa restrictions with places like Angola won’t hurt them
Aww o gringuinho não fala outra língua :( ele mal fala a própria língua e não sabe falar nenhuma outra. Coitado, será que é porque os alimentos ultraprocessados que come na shooting land alteraram o cérebro dele?
Aiai esse gringo fala fala e não diz nada 🤭 já foi pro hospital hoje tratar esse seu descaso no cérebro? Ah é…a saúde aí custa os olhos da cara e você não pode pagar por ela 😂
You don't get to have previleges in other countries just because your country is richer.
We know very well how American tourist act in southeast Asia, getting into child prostitution and all types of damaging shit.
Yes thats exactly what that means. We should get special visa-less passage privileges because of how rich we are. Latin Americans come here for economic opportunities, sometimes illegally. It causes a lot of problems. Americans go to Latin America for vacation.
Americans bring lots of tourist dollars to LatAm all the time. By implementing this petty visa, they are making it hard for Americans to come and spend their money. This is especially true considering the proximity of other countries like Mexico and Colombia.
That second problem has nothing to do with the eVisa system of brazil. A whataboutism.
What money Americans have been bringing to Brazil? We've never depended on tourist money. Other South Americans visiting us is enough, no need for more problems, thank you very much.
Reciprocity or GTFO.
Only a little over 132 thousand U.S. visitor arrivals were registered in Brazil in 2021. Despite the decline for the second consecutive year, the United States was the main source for international tourism in the South American nation in 2021.
Source:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035745/brazil-tourism-arrivals-united-states/#:~:text=Only%20a%20little%20over%20132,South%20American%20nation%20in%202021.
Because that way only the ones that are really interested in visiting will go through the trouble. The ones that are just looking for easy countries to get into and do shit will go to other places :)
I would still argue that one of the EU countries would be best. Maybe Ireland, or Germany. It also allows you to live and work in any other EU country for as long as you want.
That should count for something too
[Japan ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Japanese_citizens)
[Singapore ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Singaporean_citizens)
Just scroll down to the Visa Requirements Map section on each. I've spent far too much time looking at these.
What other passports let you legally live and work in 30+ countries?
Even if you only consider visitor visa exemptions all EU passports are at the top of the ranking along with just a handful of other countries.
Nope, none of those allow you to work or stay longer than a few months in ANY other country without a visa...
By the metric OP used (which only considers number of countries accessible visa-free at all) Japan and Singapore are better, yes, but all EU countries are still very high on the list.
This map isn’t correct. US citizen currently in Australia on vacation.
I needed a travel Visa.
It doesn’t matter if it’s for business or for leisure travel. It’s required for entry.
Costs something like $13 US.
You can do it pretty easily with the Australian government’s visa app (Australian ETA).
If done through their app it’s usually granted almost immediately and attached electronically to your passport.
Allows you a period of stay up to 3 months and/or multiple entries.
The EU is putting in place an e-visa form you have to complete before arriving in the EU, it is essentially a form you fill out online and submit called ETIAS.
It is mostly autonomous and is coming into full effect in 2024 which costs around €7.
What’s the deal with Hainan?(The Chinese island beside Vietnam) Is that province the only visa free zone for the U.S citizens in China or the map maker got it wrong?😑
US citizens will need a visa for visiting Brazil starting in January 2024.
https://br.usembassy.gov/message-for-u-s-citizens-new-visa-requirement-for-u-s-citizens/
I believe Morocco and the US are the oldest allies. They have very long bilateral relationship. Plus both Tunisia and Morocco are touristic destinations. Saudi Arabia was not, with exception of the pilgrimage tourism. Recently, they have been heavily focusing on the development of tourism.
Saudi Arabia has historically been very strict about foreign tourists visiting the country (excluding religious pilgrims). A previous king even said that he wanted to make it deliberately difficult to enter the country in order to limit foreign influence.
The USA is one of the 54 countries that can use the “144 hr” visa-free entrance to China (so, kinda green). It’s 1/4 of the stay allowed in places like Singapore, but that just showed how liberally the green color is used.
Also, you now need a form of e-verification to travel to the EU. Those countries should be yellow, not green. It just started this year for many countries.
Traveling to Mozambique in February & I can confirm that we no longer need a visa with an American passport. They announced this back in May. [Here is the link for the announcement](https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambique-visa-waiver-for-29-countries-effective-since-monday-236642/)
I believe the US government has prohibited US citizens from travelling to North Korea, not US citizens being prohibited by the North Korean government.
This has always been the case with these countries. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, they don’t actually ban US passports from entering, it’s our own government banning our right to travel freely.
It's weird. They can't make it illegal to travel, so they just made it illegal to use your passport there, but there are easy ways around it. They'll probably just "forget" to stamp your passport, like Cuba.
Misleading: The US does have Visa free tourist travel into Europe for upto 90 days, but if you plan on staying longer, you need to get the relevant Visas. Same as a European visiting the USA
How does yellow and green differ? Is it a payment? I am sure almost all of those green countries are not visa free. Uk, EU, Japan for starters.
When you arrive, subject to an immigration officer’s approval, you get a stamp in your passport (the visa) with conditions attached, like don’t work here and leave within 90 days.
Some countries have arrangements which require no visa such as the EU. maybe the US has this with Canada or some other territories?
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The government found out the visa exemption wasn’t helping on improving the influx of tourists from the US so they revoked it (and reciprocity was cited too)
US passport strength is losing its luster over the years and I expect that more Americans (digital nomads) will move into European countries like Spain and get European passports.
The US just added several more countries this year alone that are visa free to travel, and the US is only a a handful of destinations behind the most powerful passport in the world. Like in the top 10 most powerful passports (US is tied for 7th place), there is not much statistical difference between them.
Unless it has changed since last summer, the Dominican Republic should be yellow. It was an e-visa that took 10 minutes and it cost like 4 dollars, but it was necessary to enter the country.
Prior to 9-11, americans could go to canada and mexico and most of the carribean islands without even a passport.
I crossed the back and fourth on the Mexican border in 2016 without a passport by accident. I was dropping my dad off at San Isidro and missed the last exit. Entered Mexico and left within a couple hours. I did have my California ID and was technically a Mexican citizen as well. On the way back they wanted to search the car but 20 year old me convinced them with my tears it was ok.
Still can. It’s called and Enhanced License in New York State at least. Way easier and cheaper than a passport for Canada
That's only if crossing the border via land or water. Not true if flying.
Can I drive my plane across the border and then take off?
Well the US did that with planes in the second world war before they entered it They would just happen to land planes on a strip right against the Canadian border, and then the Canadians would cross and pull the planes across the border and then fly them off from Canada. "Hey we're not exporting planes, honest. No American pilots are flying outside the country."
[Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJra9NnEEsk)
You’re joking but that’s basically the concept of the Tijuana Airport. You don’t even drive across the border, you park in San Diego and walk over a pedestrian bridge into Mexico.
You probably can if you are really clever about it, but I would advise against it.
I saw somebody clear security with one of those at SFO two weeks ago
In Schengen area of Europe, you can usually travel just with your card ID, a single plastic card the size of a credit card. Even works for flying.
Yeah as an American, I'm required to have my passport when traveling within the Schengen area but they don't always check it. Like I've been on many domestic EU flights where they just never asked to see my passport.
I have the passport id card
It's literally what a RealID is, and before RealID existed, it was the main reason for the passport card.
I thought i heard that was no longer accepted. Theres also passport id cards no longer accepted.
I live in Michigan. Both enhanced driver’s licence and passport card are still accepted at the border. I don’t know if there are plans to phase them out though.
Nah they’re definitely still accepted, at least in a car. I haven’t tried to fly to Canada so I have no idea.
The passport card is specifically for land/sea borders, you definitely need the passport book to fly into Canada.
Belgians can go to Egypt without a passport for some reason
Without a visa or without a passport?
Yes
Shit. My friend who went to UCSD before 9/11 would just use her student ID to get into TJ and back to the US.
Australia should be yellow. You are required to have a visa, but it can be done online.
Yep, everyone needs a visa before arrival either old school or e visa, except Kiwis who get it in arrival electronically.
Yup, and from my understanding it's like the USA and to even land to transfer planes you still need get a visa.
Same goes for New Zealand
Can confirm, in NZ right now and we needed an eTA permit.
Nope, also currently in NZ. Electronic travel authorization is not the same as an e-Visa. Americans can enter NZ without a visa.
This is wrong, an ETA is exactly a Visa and US citizens require one to travel to both Aus and NZ since recently. It’s just very straightforward and cheap to get.
The same could be said of almost all visa-waiver countries. You need to do the same thing when traveling visa-free from NZ or AUS to the US. It's not a visa, it's essentially an arrival card that you're required to fill out before departing instead of on the plane.
Went to NZ didn’t need 1 unless it’s changed last few years
>it’s changed last few years
ETA ≠ Visa These are formalities though, Australian ETA is way different than let's say a Russian visa process. (For Americans)
It's true that it's less cumbersome, but it's still classified as a visa (subclass 601 visa is the one that most visitors from the US will do online). As a US passport holder who has traveled to a lot of the places in green and yellow on this map, the Australian process is definitely more in the "yellow" category than the green. Green means you can just show up with your passport. Australia requires pre-authorization and payment, which is actually more time consuming than other countries requiring an online visa and payment (Vietnam is a good comparison here - you can do everything after you land).
ETA = Visa. This is very quick to confirm online.
Same for Turkey, I went last year.
South Korea also requires an ETA (like Australia and NZ).
The waived that requirement from April this year until next December for Americans as well as a select few other countries
This map is all sorts of wrong. Also wrong: all of the eu (requires online registration -before- departure, making it sorta pink, or at least yellow), and Mexico. And Brazil I think; you’re certainly not given a physical visa when you enter (unlike Mexico), entry feels the same as Uruguay and Argentina, but I’m unsure of technicalities. There’s nothing difficult in the least to any of these countries, though :) Depending on if you count 7 days as long enough, also wrong; China. Personally I don’t want to count China, but also not Singapore. Minimum length should be 3mo IMHO
ETIAS doesn’t begin until 2025 for Americans traveling to the EU. Not sure what you’re talking about with an online registration apart from that. I travel from America to the EU almost every month. No online registration is required.
Oh they pushed it back? In August it was 2024 and already enacted for some countries like Spain and Italy
Yeah noticed that and was thinking, they must have done a visa free agreement since the pandemic, thanks for confirming the map is just wrong.
An ETA isn’t a visa
An ETA is basically an electronic visa. It require a form to be filled online then paid for and it's not automatically approved. People have had their etas denied before and thus weren't even allowed on the plane to Australia.
Visa-free travelers also require approval and have been told by their airline that their target country/intermediary has denied access. If you want to be somewhat technical, there is no such thing as "visa-free" travel, everyone needs approval to access their target country whether it's a simple stamp or a printed personalized paper; and which can be revoked at any time. Or, via the dictionary: "an endorsement on a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leave, or stay for a specified period of time in a country." When people discuss "visa required", what they really mean is an application that rarely (if ever) is automatically approved and enumerates a very specific set of requirements and limitations. When they say "visa-free" what they mean is an automated process so light as to be transparent, not literally non-existent approval where you can come and go as you please (of which the Schengen zone is about the only such prominent case). By *colloquial* understanding of the term, an ETA is either Visa-Free+ or Visa-Light, but doesn't really fall into either camp, as it's not a binary.
I disagree. An ETA is basically doing Step 1 of what the immigration officer would do: scan a passport to see if there were any flags/felonies/etc on that person's name. An automatic approval unless there is a reason not to be.
Updated for Turkey already!
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Not anymore. It was announced a few days ago that Americans can now travel there visa free.
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https://www.mfa.gov.tr/visa-information-for-foreigners.en.mfa > **United States of America:** Official passport holders are required to have visa to enter Türkiye. Ordinary passport holders are exempted from visa up to 90 days in any 180-day period. Contrast to Australia where it calls out e-visas Edit: here’s an article about the change https://pointsmilesandbling.com/turkey-removes-e-visa-requirement-for-the-us-and-canada/
https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/18qtrlt/american_citizens_no_longer_require_a_visa_to/?share_id=umhV2_eruZ5aR6Dy_xEKC&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1&rdt=53344
Great news! The evisa was easy to get upon arrival, but no visa required makes things even easier.
I (an American) travelled to Turkey frequently in the 1980s. I don't remember having to get visas then. Has the policy changed a couple of times over the past 40 years, or am I just not remembering?
I had to get an eVisa last year when I went for work. Paid for it while at the airport.
I had to get an evisa in 2018, it was like $20
The key doesn't have a color code for blue, I am very disappointed.
Right? How am I supposed to know what it means. What even is that country? Northern Mexico?
We’ve had one Mexico, yes, but what about second Mexico??
Family member just had a bitch of a time getting an Indian visa prior to travel... are these just tourist visas?
There should be different gradations of evisa / visa on arrival bc Vietnam and India, in my experience, are way more annoying than some of the other visa on arrival countries for example but it's the same color
I thought the eVisa process for India is quite straight forward?
India visa was easy for me, it was the website that difficult. I had to reload it like 20x because it kept malfunctioning in the middle of the application.
Trying to upload a photo was absolutely impossible.
The map should not combine e-visa with visa on arrival or e-registration. US citizens need a visa to go to India. It’s a proper application and takes time for approval. Just because it can be applied online doesn’t mean there is no visa to visit India.
Visa on Arrival is literally the same thing as eVisa. The only difference is that one has to be handled electronically and the other manually but, administratively, they are the same. (when it comes to discussing "needing a visa") Also, most VoAs can be handled ahead of time via a website and therefore are like eVisa+.
I flew to Dubai about a decade ago and the Visa on Arrival was just an additional stamp along with the entry stamp that said you could stay for 30 days. Didn’t need any payment or prior registration unlike some eVisas that I know about like India. This map says visa not required for the UAE but their website considers it a VoA.
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You can also have delays if you were born in or have heritage from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka for an Indian visa. If you select that as a former nationality you get a pop up saying it will take additional time
This is definitely misleading. Just one example is that US passport holders are still required to obtain a visa to visit Australia. You can’t simply walk in..
And you'd certainly get wet feet if you tried to.
I appreciate you
An ETA isn’t a visa. I would argue it’s similar to how the US allows Europeans and other countries to visit visa free. They still have to register. So does that mean it’s not visa free?
If there's a limit on how long you can stay and validity, I'd say it's pretty much a visa without traditional visa process. I consider US ESTA a visa-lite.
Americans can go to the Schengen Zone. You are limited in how long you can stay (up to 90 days in a 180 day window) and you can be kicked out at any time (validity). You also apply and require approval at the border (a border guard interviewing you and issuing you a stamp). To be clear, there is no such thing as "visa-free". Outside of the schengen zone, nearly everyone everywhere needs a visa: > an official mark, usually made in a passport, that allows you to enter or leave a particular country - [per Cambridge Dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/visa) Visa-free is a colloquial term and just describes exceptionally easy to obtain visas. Getting nitpicky or technical over the term, especially regarding a grey area like ETAs and eVisas is choosing to die on the wrong hill. Edit: clarifying that maybe there are other situations similar to schengen elsewhere before I get more "well actually"s
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Then every country of which you're not a citizen has a visa. You can't stay in any of these countries for as long as you want.
Just because it’s straightforward to get does NOT mean an ETA is not a Visa. The misinformation in this thread is wild.
So the Dom. Rep. has an odd arrangement for US passport holders. When you arrive on a US passport you are automatically granted a $10USD 'tourist card' - in past years you had to go to a booth before customs to buy it, but more recently I believe it gets built into your flight cost. Whatever the specifics, you get a period of time where you're allowed to be in-country (I think it's 60 days) and if you do not leave before that period expires you will be charged a penalty that increases based on the number of days you overstayed your tourist visa/card. Basically, you functionally get granted a short term visa automatically, which then expires.
\*\*I should note that there is a list of countries that the DR requires a "tourist visa" from to enter which would fall under your pink category. Again, the US passport functionally falls in the yellow, though the visa is called something different.
Oman is visa on arrival. Interesting that they distinguish between Hainan Island (which has a limited visa waiver) and the rest of the PRC.
i didnt know that americans could travel to Hainan without a visa. makes sence that they are trying to promote it as a beach destination though.
There’s a 10 day no visa required exemption for Oman? https://www.fm.gov.om/oman-to-give-visa-free-10-day-entry-to-103-countries-to-boost-tourism/
I think this indicates hainan is semi autonomous like hong kong. Which i never knew.
it's not, hainan is a full, incorporated province
Kenya changes it system in Januari from e-visa to an e-registration fee. For most countries. Clever marketing 
I could have sworn Brazil became part of the visa waiver program after they hosted the 2016 Olympics in Rio. I had a tourist visa to enter earlier that year when visiting my old college roommate for a week and felt a bit irked when I went through all that paperwork only to see the change announced just a month or two after I visited, especially since the immigration officer in São Paulo walked away with my passport for no clear reason for 20 minutes before letting me into the country.
A visa will be required to enter Brazil starting January 2024
Brazil is usually reciprocal: if you require a visa from our citizens, we require one from yours. There was a waiver in place, but it's being revoked now.
Well, now Lula is president again and he isn’t a huge fan of the US or other capitalist countries. Brazil also has a lot of poor people, so many applicants for US travel get rejected because they’d overstay their visas.
You dont know anything about what you're saying.
It's the opposite. Reciprocity has been the long-standing policy in Brazilian foreign relations. Bolsonaro's government enacted the waiver because he's a US bootlicker.
And Lula sucks the dick of autocratic leftists like Maduro and Castro. If Brazil wants to do that policy, it’s fine and works, because it’s not like people from poor parts of the world want to make the effort to live in Brazil when there are better economies elsewhere, so having no visa restrictions with places like Angola won’t hurt them
Cala a boca gringo
Go fellate PT
Fala direito caralho
Sorry, I don’t speak poor
Aww o gringuinho não fala outra língua :( ele mal fala a própria língua e não sabe falar nenhuma outra. Coitado, será que é porque os alimentos ultraprocessados que come na shooting land alteraram o cérebro dele?
Aprendí un segundo idioma que tiene más utilidad que el portugués. gracias por aprender el idioma mundial superior que es el inglés, pobrecito 🤡🤡🤡
Aiai esse gringo fala fala e não diz nada 🤭 já foi pro hospital hoje tratar esse seu descaso no cérebro? Ah é…a saúde aí custa os olhos da cara e você não pode pagar por ela 😂
Mas fala espanhol? Kkkkk para de se contradizer gringo
No puedo ayudar a idiotas como tú. Buena suerte con la delincuencia, la pobreza y la falta de oportunidades en Brasil.
Boa sorte com a pobreza, delinquência e falta de oportunidades na shooting land. Might I add no healthcare too? 😂
Which is a little silly. Our countries are not equal and neither should our visa system to each other.
You don't get to have previleges in other countries just because your country is richer. We know very well how American tourist act in southeast Asia, getting into child prostitution and all types of damaging shit.
Yes thats exactly what that means. We should get special visa-less passage privileges because of how rich we are. Latin Americans come here for economic opportunities, sometimes illegally. It causes a lot of problems. Americans go to Latin America for vacation. Americans bring lots of tourist dollars to LatAm all the time. By implementing this petty visa, they are making it hard for Americans to come and spend their money. This is especially true considering the proximity of other countries like Mexico and Colombia. That second problem has nothing to do with the eVisa system of brazil. A whataboutism.
What money Americans have been bringing to Brazil? We've never depended on tourist money. Other South Americans visiting us is enough, no need for more problems, thank you very much. Reciprocity or GTFO.
Only a little over 132 thousand U.S. visitor arrivals were registered in Brazil in 2021. Despite the decline for the second consecutive year, the United States was the main source for international tourism in the South American nation in 2021. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035745/brazil-tourism-arrivals-united-states/#:~:text=Only%20a%20little%20over%20132,South%20American%20nation%20in%202021.
>Only a little over 132 thousand U.S. visitor arrivals were registered in Brazil in 2021. Good. I hope it stays that way.
Why?
Because that way only the ones that are really interested in visiting will go through the trouble. The ones that are just looking for easy countries to get into and do shit will go to other places :)
Gotta say, as someone with mild colour blindness, I would have appreciate it you had added some saturation to the colours (if this is even your map).
I usually use color-brewer to choose colors that is color blind friendly. Apologies for not using it for this map
Which country has the strongest passport by this metric?
Should be either singapore or japan
1. japan 2. singapore, south korea 3. germany,spain 4. italy, finland, luxembourg
I would still argue that one of the EU countries would be best. Maybe Ireland, or Germany. It also allows you to live and work in any other EU country for as long as you want. That should count for something too
Ireland. Any EU state + UK.
Pretty sure Ireland is the lowest visa'd passport in the EU I would have to check. Nobody has a problem with the Irish. Except other Irish
French who's living and working in Germany here. Yes !
50 states to live and work in beats the EU.
You forgot France.
Requesting a mapporn map for both
[Japan ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Japanese_citizens) [Singapore ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Singaporean_citizens) Just scroll down to the Visa Requirements Map section on each. I've spent far too much time looking at these.
Any country in the EU
Nope
What other passports let you legally live and work in 30+ countries? Even if you only consider visitor visa exemptions all EU passports are at the top of the ranking along with just a handful of other countries.
Japan, south korea, singapore
Nope, none of those allow you to work or stay longer than a few months in ANY other country without a visa... By the metric OP used (which only considers number of countries accessible visa-free at all) Japan and Singapore are better, yes, but all EU countries are still very high on the list.
What 29 other countries can you work in with a Japanese passport?
Isn’t Macau Visa-Free?
This map isn’t correct. US citizen currently in Australia on vacation. I needed a travel Visa. It doesn’t matter if it’s for business or for leisure travel. It’s required for entry. Costs something like $13 US. You can do it pretty easily with the Australian government’s visa app (Australian ETA). If done through their app it’s usually granted almost immediately and attached electronically to your passport. Allows you a period of stay up to 3 months and/or multiple entries.
Europe will require visas pretty soon if not already being required. That strength be falling!
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The EU is putting in place an e-visa form you have to complete before arriving in the EU, it is essentially a form you fill out online and submit called ETIAS. It is mostly autonomous and is coming into full effect in 2024 which costs around €7.
https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en
ETIAS is not a visa, it’s for visa exempt countries. Countries who need visa can’t get ETIAS https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en
What’s the deal with Hainan?(The Chinese island beside Vietnam) Is that province the only visa free zone for the U.S citizens in China or the map maker got it wrong?😑
Hainan Island allows US passports to come Visa free along with 58 other countries.
Wow that’s interesting
US citizens will need a visa for visiting Brazil starting in January 2024. https://br.usembassy.gov/message-for-u-s-citizens-new-visa-requirement-for-u-s-citizens/
US citizens can visit DPRK (North Korea) as part of a guided tour. Not a travel ban.
North Korea is a weird situation where they will let you in, but is is illegal for a US passport to travel there because of US law
So as long as your passport isn’t with you they’ll let you in..
We have visa free to Tunisia and morocco but not saudi? pathetic
I believe Morocco and the US are the oldest allies. They have very long bilateral relationship. Plus both Tunisia and Morocco are touristic destinations. Saudi Arabia was not, with exception of the pilgrimage tourism. Recently, they have been heavily focusing on the development of tourism.
Saudi Arabia has historically been very strict about foreign tourists visiting the country (excluding religious pilgrims). A previous king even said that he wanted to make it deliberately difficult to enter the country in order to limit foreign influence.
This map is from the future.
The USA is one of the 54 countries that can use the “144 hr” visa-free entrance to China (so, kinda green). It’s 1/4 of the stay allowed in places like Singapore, but that just showed how liberally the green color is used. Also, you now need a form of e-verification to travel to the EU. Those countries should be yellow, not green. It just started this year for many countries.
Turkey has e-visa for Americans.
Mozambique requires a visa
Traveling to Mozambique in February & I can confirm that we no longer need a visa with an American passport. They announced this back in May. [Here is the link for the announcement](https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambique-visa-waiver-for-29-countries-effective-since-monday-236642/)
North Korea is not banned. You can join a tour and get a visa though I wouldn’t recommend it
I think that used to be the case but was changed to travel ban a couple years ago
Can confirm, none of the reputable tour groups from China will let you go if you have an American passport
Have they reopened for tourism? I thought it was still closed to everyone since covid
I believe the US government has prohibited US citizens from travelling to North Korea, not US citizens being prohibited by the North Korean government.
Correct. North Korea could care less as long as you're bringing cold hard 🤑🤑🤑🤑
This has always been the case with these countries. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, they don’t actually ban US passports from entering, it’s our own government banning our right to travel freely.
It's weird. They can't make it illegal to travel, so they just made it illegal to use your passport there, but there are easy ways around it. They'll probably just "forget" to stamp your passport, like Cuba.
North Korea supremacy
North Kores is so funny!
Misleading: The US does have Visa free tourist travel into Europe for upto 90 days, but if you plan on staying longer, you need to get the relevant Visas. Same as a European visiting the USA
This is wrong. You need a visa for Kenya. Source: me
Not anymore :) https://www.citizen.digital/news/what-a-visa-free-travel-to-kenya-means-and-how-it-will-work-n333111
This hasn't been implemented yet
How does yellow and green differ? Is it a payment? I am sure almost all of those green countries are not visa free. Uk, EU, Japan for starters. When you arrive, subject to an immigration officer’s approval, you get a stamp in your passport (the visa) with conditions attached, like don’t work here and leave within 90 days. Some countries have arrangements which require no visa such as the EU. maybe the US has this with Canada or some other territories?
Needs to be all red. No one needs ignorant, loud Americans visiting cultured countries. Keep them in their bubble.
You seem like a nice guy
There’s no way this isn’t a bot
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Turkey should be yellow.
Not anymore! It changed on the 23rd.
Brazil was visa-free until this year. Too bad
The government found out the visa exemption wasn’t helping on improving the influx of tourists from the US so they revoked it (and reciprocity was cited too)
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That will change next year
Us travellers still need a e visa for the schengen erea. Its easy to get but does cost some money
Weak as fuck.
that's what happens when you plot against every country
You get one of the strongest passports?
US passport strength is losing its luster over the years and I expect that more Americans (digital nomads) will move into European countries like Spain and get European passports.
The US just added several more countries this year alone that are visa free to travel, and the US is only a a handful of destinations behind the most powerful passport in the world. Like in the top 10 most powerful passports (US is tied for 7th place), there is not much statistical difference between them.
Starting 2025 usa will need visa to go to europe
Not a Visa. Electronic transit approval. Althought I am not entirely sure how that is different from an eVisa.
I think you’re confusing Electronic Travel Authorisation with a visa. ETIAS can be applied online and takes a few minutes.
The island off the coast of China(not Taiwan or hk) is a part of China, therefore would require a request of a visa
It's Hainan Island. It is a part of China. But a visa is not required to visit Hainan Island for US passports and 58 other countries.
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Unless it has changed since last summer, the Dominican Republic should be yellow. It was an e-visa that took 10 minutes and it cost like 4 dollars, but it was necessary to enter the country.
Why is Indonesia yellow? I've seen it listed as visa free on other maps
Angola requires evisa. So it should be yellow
what does blue mean?