{"id":80640,"date":"2025-10-21T18:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80640"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:21:05","slug":"us-not-ranked-among-worlds-top-10-most-powerful-passports-for-first-time-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/21\/us-not-ranked-among-worlds-top-10-most-powerful-passports-for-first-time-in-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US not ranked among world\u2019s top 10 \u2018most powerful passports\u2019 for first time in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/10\/15\/11\/15\/iStock-2200669453.jpeg\" alt=\"American passport holders can access only 180 of 227 places worldwide without a prior visa\" width=\"497\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/north-america\/usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S.\u00a0<\/a>has dropped out of the Top 10 in the rankings of the world\u2019s \u201cmost powerful passports\u201d for the first time in the 20-year history of a widely respected index.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/passport-ranking-list-america-place-falls-b2845836.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0has dropped out of the Top 10 in the rankings of the world\u2019s \u201cmost powerful passports\u201d for the first time in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/smart-passport-gates.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80641,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80640\/revisions\/80641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}