CNN’s Kunal Sehgal shares a personal story of how difficult traveling with a “low-mobility” passport is, and the invisible “passport privilege” that splits global travelers
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Spain was like bitch please
Go somewhere else then!
As an Indian, I am so glad I’m changing my nationality to Singaporean, The strongest passport in the world.
Come Jan ‘27 I’ll be a naturalized Singaporean citizen. Can’t wait!!
Are we going to pretend like we aren’t aware of the reasons why?
Countries with a lower BNP and worse general living standards are more likely to have economic refugees. They aren’t fleeing war, famine, oppression or persecution, but rather the economy. So, unless you have a job, own property, have contracts and obligations back home, you are likely to be denied visa or even entry upon arrival. If they in any way suspect you might overstay your visa, they will not let you enter. And if they didn’t suspect it but you still over stay, they want maximum documentation to be able to locate you and remove you from the country. Does it suck? Yes.
Passport backward class
A lot of asians countries have these restrictions because the chances of indians illegally settling in is far greater than an american in india. Its because of societal behaviour and motivations driving indians to find a way to settle in the west.
Its not passport privilage
Oh yes, let’s create victims everywhere. As if that is going well right now.
Migration policies most often than not, have a reason.
As a Saudi, I don’t blame them. It’s called national security not passport privilege. My mom had to go thru the same process for visa application a decade ago, including me she had to prove this minor aka me was hers with a birth certificate (original and translated), acting naive why there’s a hurdle is intellectually dishonest.
The thing about places like India is they’re goddamn huge and there’s completely different versions of the culture in different places and even different languages so being an Indian that can’t easily travel to another country is a type of privilege people in smaller counties don’t have.
To play devil’s advocate: there’s 1.47 billion Indians, the per capita average income is quiet low and every country wants tourists that are going to spend money and the huge population means even if a tiny fraction tried to overstay their visa or seel asylum that’s a huge number of people. Chinese passports have the same issues.
It’s about money, rich nations are less likely to overstay their vacations in poor nations than the opposite; that’s why one of the most important parts of the visa processes are bank statements, basically being rich in poor nation means it is less likely to overstaying.
Makes total sense. People from certain countries are massively more prone to overstay and try to illegally immigrate. There would be total chaos if everybody could travel freely.
The west is sooooooooooooo insane with their restrictions
Was the “proud” Indian applying for a tourist visa or an employment visa (to work for CNN)? 🙄️🙄️
Because No One in Western Countries is Looking to go to a 2nd/3rd World Country to Overstay their Visa and/or do Harm to that Country. Duh?! 🤦🏻♂️🤣
Visa requirements should be reciprocal.
For eg if a sudanese national need a visa to enter the US then the nationals should likewise need a visa to enter sudan. That should be normalized