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Once a ticket to visa-free travel across the world, the US passport’s potency has dwindled in recent times. And now, for the first time, it’s completely fallen off the leaderboard of nationalities ranked in the Henley Passport Index.
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SINGAPORE: The United States has fallen out of the world’s top 10 most powerful passports for the first time in 20 years, marking a continued decline in the strength of the American passport.
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The decline of the US passport and its most recent drop from 10 (th) to 12 (th) position on the index has been driven by a series of access changes. The loss of visa-free access to Brazil in April due to a lack of reciprocity,