YOU ARE (PASSPORT) PRIVILEGED | Comparing Strong & Weak Passports 

I saw stupid people with strong passports being respected & wonderful people with weak passports disrespected at different airports...Weak passport makes you suspicious & strong passport makes you special...A passport decides your worth...What a wonderful world we live in.

Having a weaker passport and refused visa at the embassy is totally heartbreaking. I faced this and the wound has never healed.

" Travel is not a right, but a privilege" - well said

I'm Lebanese. Our trash passport is one the main reasons I'm applying for postgrad studies in France. Hopefully, I will be able to acquire French citizenship in the next few years and be able to follow my travel passion. I always despair whenever I think about how hard it is to travel with my passport, but then I remember at least I have the opportunity to get a dual citizenship because of my academic qualifications and (in the case of France) the fact that I already speak French fluently. Most Lebanese right now are stuck in a country that is supposed to be considered home but instead is a prison and a failed state quickly deteriorating.

As a dual Australian/UK citizen who has travelled the world with ease, this has long struck me as an incredible injustice for many and has never been something I take for granted. We are incredibly lucky to be born with the passports that we were.

It’s crazy how I have a German passport and pretty much all my friends have and we actually don’t even know how privileged we are...

As a Brit, I love the Polish. Being Welsh I love them more. We had a whole village of them that couldn't go back after the war. They became valued members of the Welsh community. I mind a few war graves I feel they are part of Wales that much. You are a great ambassador!

It's so nice that someone with a strong passport has actually stopped and taken the time to think about this. We have a Maldivian passport but we love travelling. And so does most of our fellow Maldivians. Love this video and thanks a lot for making it. ❤️

Your perspective on “travel as a privilege” and “quality over quantity” are refreshing. Thank you, I am going to check that passport page site out.

Very True Eva. I am a Canadian, born in Pakistan and hold more than 2 strong passports. I remember it was not easy to pass immigration posts when I was on Pakistani passport, but now the same me can travel anywhere in the world, visited almost half of it, no stupid questions, no line ups. It is so sad we profile people and put them in different boxes.

My dad is American and my mom is Turkish. I can see first hand how they treat my mom every time she goes somewhere compared to my dad. I hate how people are so stuck up about different passports and nationalities. We should embrace our differences because that's what makes us beautiful :)

Thank you so much for discussing this topic on RU-vid! I was getting so fed-up of 'how to travel like I do' videos that do not include this tricky subject. This is such refreshing and imoortant content!

Quality over quantity any day! My Lebanese passport won’t be stopping me from traveling wherever I want to 😁

Yeah, when i got the spanish nationality my parents were so happy but as i was little i had no idea why. The spanish passport compared to my bolivian passport definitely gives me more opportunities

This has really got me thinking, thanks for opening up such an interesting conversation. More videos like this please Eva!🙌🏼

I respect how, as a travel blogger, you speak the truth about travel being a privilege. Unfortunately, there are many travel bloggers out there that shame others (although implicit or indirect) for not being well traveled, as if everyone somehow has the opportunity to do so like they do.

Absolutely! Even considering all the low cost carriers, online flight booking, travel is still a privilege for many. Thank you for shedding light on this!

I use an Indonesian passport and my dream is to become a "visa collecter" hahaha. The story of Baderkhan is really inspiring! I found him on Instagram and I've been enjoying his travel stories (and your travel story with him too in Kurdistan mwahaha). Same here, I used to have a goal of traveling to as many countries/places as possible but now I understand the limitation of travels and life itself more, I have redefined my definition of "as many places as possible". I think it's important to have a reason why we want to travel to a certain country (say historical, religious and cultural reasons) instead of just traveling there for the sake of traveling. Especially now in the age of social media where travel sometimes has become some sort of bragging rights. Personally I enjoy your vlogs and stories because you really dig deep into the reason why you want to travel. The human interaction, the story telling and so on. I hope I can travel to as many places as you've been too, Eva! Cheers from Indonesia

This is true and am immensely grateful for it

Couldn't expect that someone would ever address this topic. I remember my dear friend from Morocco and me laughing bitterly at our, as he called them then, "weak" passports and I thought he had figured it out by himself. I'm a Belarusian now living in Italy struggling every year for a stay permission. I came for studying and I'm very grateful I could use this opportunity. I remember when my classmates would go on Erasmus and were asking me why I wasn't. I just new I would have many problems getting another visa for Erasmus for 6 or 12 months in France, let's say. Being a student alone counting only on myself I couldn't permit myself such a luxury. Still, I understand how privileged I am in comparison to other Belarusians who would love to go abroad, travel and maybe live in another country for a little of that experience. I would love to travel many countries, unfortunately for now I just struggle surviving from one month to another. Still I have a deep believe that I am on the right road and I have no hurry. I enjoy every day of my life looking around, seeing those stunning sunsets over the mountains... I realise how happy I'm and if I die tmrrw I won't have regrets of seeing many places. In the end, it's not exactly the goal in life, it's just a pleasant and beautiful bonus to it. Send love and light to Eva and each single of you reading. Wish all your dreams come true ❤️🙏🏼❤️

Hola Eva! This video came to my life just in time! I needed a little boost of positivism, I'm Costa Rican, and USA citizen (meaning I have 2 passports, blessed!) and I meet this good friend of mine (he is from Iraqui,Kurdistan) in Dubai, and I'm really excited to travel together again and show him my beautiful Costa Rica, so I'm trying to help him with the Costa Rican visa and also transit visas. It's a hard work but I'm sooooo positive! Thank you!

I used to have an Indian passport and had to apply for visas for pretty much everywhere. Now I have a New Zealand 🇳🇿 passport and have traveled to US, Canada and Australia without a visa. Life’s way easier with a first world passport! Although I wish that I could’ve kept my Indian one too but India doesn’t allow dual citizenship :(

I'm really glad I found your page, this is like the 4th or 5th video of yours I've watched and I actually never knew about the Passport Index. I will definitely study this site and show my friends who travel. Thanks for educating us on this.....safe travels as always. I will continue to watch your travel vlogs (I have to get caught up).

I agree with #1, it’s not about how many country you’ve been to, but the amount of time an experience you enjoy yourself in. With that, I like how you go to places where it’s not so common! You truly give yourself an experience like no other travel blogger, and I enjoy watching you share it with us!

Something we all need to think about. Great content 💥👌🏻

I’m so glad to watch all of your amazing videos ❤️

So much appreciated when you said it‘s not about the number of countries but it‘s about the depth. I know quite a few people that are proud of having seen x amount of countries - but each just for a few days. What’s the point. Keep doing great content, super amazing to see. And enjoy the Defender :)

Hi Ewa, first of all, congrats on all of your truly amazing travels👏 Secondly, I'd just like to say that it was really thoughtful of u to include in the video those guys with not so powerful passports who, despite this, show us that (rather obviously) it's still perfectly possible to find great delight in whatever 'limited' (but beautiful) journeys we may embark on🙂 As for u, well, hope Covid won't hamper your adventures or at least not for long🤞 Keep it up, Godspeed✌

True Eva! Its the freaking passport that make a person labelled I can say. I have been experienced a lot bias things in many countries I have been too. Unfortunately, no matter how good you are in a foreign community or how good you contribute to their economy, but if you are coming from a weak passport country, they will always less value you or even give you no value. Nations are busy facilitating opportunities to powerful passports while on other side restricting weak passports as much as they can. Reality is; people should be judged based on their background, not their origin, religion, or their skin color.

Hi,Eva zu beck I'm from the Philippines.Thank you for giving me a chance to see the beauty of every country in the world.

You inspire me a lot to travel and explore the world, Eva. Thank you so much 💚🌞💜

Yes 100% agree with changing culture around travel to quality over quantity. It's something I find your channel really good for :)

Eva: I have immense travel freedom with my passport Coronavirus: You sure??

You are bringing an important point here, that i have never realised..I remember when Baderkhanamerbadran was refused entry into Mexico, i was shocked. I have a Canadian passport and was never refused entry anywhere. For Russia i had to apply for a visa and yes paperwork was complicated but no refusal. Great video here, Thanks

Great enlightening on the essential subject.😊 Eva you're really inspirational for us to travel and explore the world. You're the spearding the love whereever you go. Keep it up.🌍

Love your stream Eva, I volunteered in a refugee camp in Greece for a bit, once I took a wrong turn in my hire car - I could easily have driven across the border with my passport that all of the thousands of people in the camp were unable to. Unfortunately my country is giving up a large chunk of its passport power :-(. Love your blogs and your friends, well done to them! Thinking I need to get on more planes (or not poor environment!) Travel definitely broadens the mind and I agree that counting countries is pointless - there are so many places within any one country and you can have amazing experiences - it's pointless just going to "have gone". Only just started watching your blogs recently - for some reason assumed you were South African :-)!

You “prefare quality over quantity” and that's why you are my favorite travel youtuber till now. And in my opinion travelling in such scale is definitely a luxury, but everyone have 24 hrs if uses correctly and focused on the goals one's definitely fulfilled his/her Travelling Goals.

UAE is the strongest passport Me: so oil talks

We needed this video Eva! ❤️

I am learning so much from you, on so many levels. Thank you for your work!

Loved this video. It definitely reinforces the fact that I should never take the power of my British passport for granted. As I live in France I've sometimes thought about applying for dual citizenship to get a French passport since it offers some visa-free countries that are not available to me via my UK passport. For instance Russia recently opened up eVisa travel for the city of St Petersburg to allow easy access for many European citizens however I cannot use this new system since the UK was specifically excluded. Which goes to show that even strong passports of neighbouring countries can differ from one another.

wow these folks you features are amazing how much they were able to travel on these passports!

EXCELLENT vid. So glad there is a well-informed statement like this out there. Bravo! Here's hoping to a freer future for everyone.🌍

Very informative and educational, keep up the good work.

"Privilege" can also mean your country always brings you back to safe homeland wherever you are when it is in danger or crisis, but not only give notice and warning saying "it's dangerous there and we urge all our citizens to leave asap, and good luck".

You met Baderkhan!!! He is such an amazingly positive guy travelling with one of the worst passports! I first found him through Drew Binsky but I've been following him since!

Eva this is such an eye opening video and I thank you so much!

Thank you for this one. You know, it is amazing how disparate the ability to travel freely is around the world. For instance, your Polish passport has WAY more of an ability to enter a country visa-free/visa on arrival than my US passport! Ranked 84 to your 114! For instance, Iran, a country with some of the most beautiful heritage sites, I have to apply for a visa and you get a free one. Life without borders. That has always been my dream to be able to one day travel without border restrictions. And even though I have been to some beautiful places, staying long term in some of them is extremely difficult. Travel should be a right, not just a privilege. But it is what it is as we are at the mercy of our government and their policies. I have searched for a better passport to travel on and ways to become a citizen of those countries but the requirements are truly daunting.

Love your raw true vlouging , Truely inspired from PAKISTAN 🥰

I’m speechless, really. I just discovered that the Italian passport is ranked 7th and I’m sitting here wasting my privilege. Btw, thank you! This was inspiring, I love travelling but I’m still a student so I have to finish my studies.

Love this message!!!!! I’m so inspired

So glad to see this being talked about. We know we’re very lucky with our passports and thank our lucky stars everyday for that. We have had to get visas for some countries and it is such a process! Really do feel for those with ‘weaker’ passports. It all comes down to politics between countries and what the leaders decide. We all have different opportunities but as the people in this video proved, it’s still completely possible to travel! ☺️😎

I have a US and a Hong Kong SAR passport as well as a Mainland China travel permit/ID. I can pretty much go to every country in the world visa free anytime I want. When one doesn’t have visa-free, the other one usually does. I have never actually needed a visa to go somewhere and I have been to quite a lot of places. Never realized how lucky I am...

Many thanks for that. I fortunately have no desire to travel to many countries.

I had one of the world’s worst passports and recently switched to a U.S. passport. It is 100% a privilege. Honestly, night and day. I no longer have to put together extensive, expensive, and invasive visa applications that require plane tickets and accommodations already in place and have to worry for weeks and sometimes months that it may get rejected. It sucks. Having a strong passport feels like the world is your oyster and the amount of respect you get versus a weaker passport is real. It’s horrible but the truth. I totally understand why people are buying stronger passports from St. Kitts or Malta because it really does change your life.

Very informative! I learn a lot from your vlogs being a new subscriber! Good Job!

Wow, I've been here for a while and didn't know you're from Poland!

Eva everytime I'm going threw my subcribtions the moment I see your vlog intro I can't help but think dam what a good looking women with a wonderful sense of humor you have thanks for sharing your boy stone

Thanks Eva for your great information

I’m having a lot of problems right now cuz of my Egyptian passport especially when it comes to my thing ( traveling ) , I don’t live in egypt but I know that if I do it’s gonna be much much harder for me to move around & travel freely . And I know that I can’t go back home for many reasons , it’s just more complicated than you’d ever expect. Lemme give you an example, to just renew my Egyptian passport i’d be waiting in long long 12 hours line in the scorching sun on my feet to just get it renewed (it’s awful) but at least looking at the bright side that I don’t live in Egypt gives me bigger & bigger freedom to travel around but still I need to apply for visas & get into a hustle to be able to travel & I don’t even guarantee that my trip goes sound and safe with no issues at the arrival destination . I’m planning to get myself a stronger passport frees me up from all these limitations that I have & open for me the world more & make me live my life. Much love to all my people around the world ❤️ I’ll visit you one day.

I love the passport comparison Eva! It's not talked about as much in the travelling community and I'm so glad you made this video! Love love love it! Very informative!

Wow nie wiedziałam, że pochodzisz z Polski :) masz dobry akcent :D !

Inspiring video! Thank You!

Thank you for your honnesty, feels good to find someone who says things as they are with positivity rather than giving us that "DO THE IMPOSSIBLE" kind of crap.

UAE passport is the strongest in the world. Japanese people: “Hold my sushi”

Oh damn, Im from the UAE and I've travelled a lot but never noticed passport privilege! This really opened my eyes tbh!

amazing work Eva!

Thank you for making this video. The more you travel the more you know that you are learn about privilege! From my experiences traveling, I realized that if you have clean running water, a bed to sleep in, and food to eat you are more privileged than a large portion of people on this planet.

Thanks for bringing up something most travellers don't talk about. I hope you to raise awareness on the issue through your vlogs. We need more openness in this world.

Big fan of your channel.. and I am happy to be in possession of a Dutch passport which gives me freedom to travel almost anywhere.

Super film :-) Ja już zwiedziłem około 70 krajów! Powodzenia w dalszej w podróży :)

Super love your vlog!

Absolutely Traveling Makes A Person Happy it's In Human Nature. Traveling Brings Good Vibes. Love from Atif Malik (Abbottabad KPK Pakistan).

“u.a.e is the strongest passport in the world me: *laughs in japan and singapore”

Great info Thanks 😊

thanks so much for a very simple but clear explanation. its really informative and incouraging too. keep it up and be safe

Yes, being from Cuba is not only hard to get a visa but also the funds to do all the process... everything is hard for us... fortunately I'm in Canada and some day hope to get the canadian passport, I will feel free finally

Great vlog! I have the luck to carry a Dutch passport, but it’s super sad and unfair for those with a less strong one. I always kind of assumed you are German by the way; but I see you’re Polish!

A great video Eva!

So cool Eva!

a lot of love form Pakistan miss you Eva zu beck

In my opinion this world belongs to the people. Being refused a visa based on ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nationality, gender or poverty or even reason to enter a country should be considered as *freedom* *discrimination.* The only people not allowed a visa should be criminals.

Hi Eva, it’s our first to watch your video and we really found your channel interesting. Thanks for making and sharing these high-quality videos. We will definitely keep watching :))

You're very lucky! It's so true about the endless hoops just to travel. Thanks for addressing this. I'm a travel vlogger and I've been to 68 countries.

"Travel Broadens the Mind". Yeah, Great informative video. Think Tourism, Think Pakistan. 🌍🌹

wow Brazil: 161 mobility score. That's great! I believe we should have the right to travel wherever we want without bureaucratic problems. But I also understand that it is not just a matter of international policies.

This video was good for me, thank you.

I am a citizen of Afghanistan and I have traveled to Pakistan, Iran, India, Uzbekistan, Kazakistan, Russia and Tajikistan so far. Afghan Passport is weak and needs a visa but for some countries like countries that are in central Asia, the visa process is much easy and short. It is because of extensive cultural and lingual similarities between us. For example, I am an ethnic Uzbek and more welcomed to Uzbekistan than the citizens of other countries near and far. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. keep up the good work!

It amazes me when people go to different countries particularly to the pacific islands they only stay at resorts and that’s it they don’t even set foot outside and see the life outside and quality is important even if I have a one day stopover on a flight to England and Australia I still try get out and have a look around. Time is one thing it’s attitude that’s important when you travel because at times it can get interesting and you see something that the media and the government of your country do not tell you the truth of what people are really like in the country you are visiting. Great video 👍👍

Yup,I am so lucky. I am a Kurdish with iraq passport. 🤣🤣

Love the perspective you bought up....yes there will be differences but the inherent push to meet each other on the same grassland should be the driving force.

Thank you for your information. I really hope can go abroad someday!

It's been a while Eva... Really miss you , I thought once you're Pakistani ... Missed you from Pakistan 🌻🌻

Sadly my passport just lost visa-free access to live, work and study in 27 countries.

Thank you!

Super informative. My Canadian passport has been a blessing as well. Nice job on the truck BTW.

Always happy for you. From Pakistan

Yep, it's good to have a powerful passport. Even though I was born and raised in Australia, I can call the Greek embassy right now and get a Greek passport because my grandparents were from there and Greece still recognizes future generations as Greek, and the Greek passport is one of the most valuable in the world, 170 countries. And could stay in EU countries for as long as I'd like.

Wow! Supercool information! Thanks very much! - Very happy to find out that my passport is among rank 3. :))

Very well said