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India Has Visa-Free Access To 62 Nations In The World: See Full List

India stands at the 80th rank in the list of most powerful passports. Its passport has visa-free access to 62 nations, including Angola, Barbados, Bhutan, Bolivia, Djibouti, El Salvador, Jamaica.

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By Kanan Parmar
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The Indian passport ranks 80th in the world's most powerful passport list for 2024, with citizens allowed to travel to only 62 countries without a visa. The country shares its rank with Uzbekistan, while neighbouring nation Pakistan is positioned at 101 spot.

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An unprecedented six countries share the top spot with visa-free access to a record-breaking number of destinations on the 2024 Henley Passport Index. Four EU member states — France, Germany, Italy, and Spain — join Japan and Singapore in boasting the most powerful passports in the world, with their citizens able to visit an astonishing 194 destinations out of 227 around the globe visa-free. The two Asian nations have dominated first place on the index (which ranks all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa) for the past five years.

The Henley Passport Index compares the visa-free access of 199 different passports to 227 travel destinations. If no visa is required, then a score with value = 1 is created for that passport. The same applies if you can obtain a visa on arrival (VOA), a visitor’s permit, or an electronic travel authority (ETA) when entering the destination.

 Where a visa is required, or where a passport holder has to obtain a government-approved electronic visa (e-Visa) before departure, a score with value = 0 is assigned. This also applies if you need pre-departure government approval for a visa on arrival.

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The total score for each passport is equal to the number of destinations for which no visa is required (value = 1).

Asian tiger South Korea joins Finland and Sweden in 2nd place with visa-free travel to 193 destinations, and another four EU nations — Austria, Denmark, Ireland, and Netherlands — share 3rd place with access to 192.

The rest of the Top 10 is largely dominated by European countries, with the UK climbing up two ranks to 4th place with visa-free access to 191 destinations compared to just 188 a year ago. Australia and New Zealand passport holders both improve their ranking to sit in 6th place with 189 visa-free destinations, while the US retains its 7th place with access to 188 destinations without requiring a visa in advance. It has been a decade since the UK and the US jointly held 1st place on the index in 2014.

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Indians can travel visa-free to the following destinations:

  1. Angola
  2. Barbados
  3. Bhutan
  4. Bolivia British Virgin Island
  5. Burundi
  6. Cambodia
  7. Cape Verde Islands
  8. Comoro Islands
  9. Cook Islands
  10. Jamaica
  11. Iran
  12. Indonesia
  13. Haiti
  14. Guinea-Bissau
  15. Grenada
  16. Gabon
  17. Fiji
  18. Ethiopia
  19. El Salvador
  20. Djibouti
  21. Dominica
  22. Jordan
  23. Kazakhstan
  24. Kenya
  25. Kiribati
  26. Laos
  27. Malaysia
  28. Maldives
  29. Macao (SAR China)
  30. Madagascar
  31. Marshall Islands
  32. Mauritania
  33. Mauritius
  34. Montserrat
  35. Mozambique
  36.  Myanmar
  37. Nepal
  38. Niue
  39. Tanzania
  40. St. Vincent and the Grenadines
  41. St. Kitts and Nevis
  42. St. Lucia
  43. Sri Lanka
  44. Somalia
  45. Seychelles
  46. Sierra Leone
  47. Senegal
  48. Rwanda
  49. Samoa
  50. Qatar
  51. Palau Islands
  52. Oman
  53. Thailand
  54. Timor-Leste
  55. Togo
  56. Trinidad and Tobago
  57. Tunisia
  58. Tuvalu
  59. Vanuatu
  60. Zimbabwe
  61. Micronesia

 

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