Powerful Passports, Passport Index, Global Ranking and Visa List
Powerful Passports. The International Air Transport Authority (IATA), which forms the basis of the Passport Index. In order to maintain the accuracy of the data provided by IATA in the face of constant updates to visa policy, and in order to create detailed visa lists for all 199 passports in our database , our research team uses publicly available and reliable online sources to cross-check each passport against all 227 possible travel destinations. This research process is ongoing throughout the year. It is coupled with a rigorous monitoring system to pick up relevant visa-policy shifts. This index is basically an analysis of the worlds powerful passports. Conditions and criteria for Powerful Passports For each travel destination, if no visa is required for passport holders from a country or territory, then a score with value = 1 is created for that passport. A score with value = 1 is also applied…