for years we’ve ranked passports based
on their ability to travel as either t
or a t or b t or c and for many people
those top tier tra passports have been
hard to come by there may be one more
entering their ranks that millions of
people could qualify for and i’m going
to tell you all about it
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before i get into what could be the
world’s next tier a passport let’s
briefly summarize what a tra passport is
and why you would want it so if you’re
looking to get a second citizenship and
you want to travel on that passport you
want to live on that passport maybe you
want to increase the travel privileges
of your current passport whatever the
reason a tra citizenship is really the
only kind of passport you can get that’s
going to allow you to visit the united
states canada assuming that you can get
in australia new zealand etc uh europe
and pretty much everywhere um that you’d
want to go now if you don’t have a great
passport now obviously this is a
substantial step up people go and they
pay taxes and they live and they
contribute to countries for years in
many cases it can be very expensive for
some people to move to a country like a
germany or to a u.s or two in australia
and naturalize and so there are ways
where you can get these tra passports
through investment through your family
tree what have you
but if you currently have a great
passport if you’re american if you’re
canadian and you want to back up and you
want people to come back to your home
country
even if you were to give up your current
citizenship then this t ura passport is
the way to do it because i think what
many people don’t understand is let’s
say that you’re a citizen of a caribbean
country which would be a t or b passport
let’s say that you go and you get uh you
know serbian citizenship through your uh
your family tree or you know i had one
gentleman reclaim his malaysian
citizenship you know if you are an
american if you want to visit the u.s
these passports won’t allow you to do
that without getting a visa because
they’re simply not to your a
there are some passports like bulgaria
or malaysia that are such great
passports but they don’t give you access
to let’s say one or two countries like
the us we call that a minus
but if you want that access to the u.s
if you want that access to these these
big english-speaking countries
then you’re going to want a t or a
passport and the vast majority of
passports in the world the vast majority
of issuing jurisdictions in the world
are not t or a jurisdictions and so what
people don’t understand in many cases is
just to visit the u.s you need a visa or
you need a passport that’s trade that’s
part of the visa waiver program in the
united states even just to fly through
the united states you either need a visa
or you need to have a passport that is a
tier a passport and so uh in the last
year or so we’ve seen poland enter the
visa waiver program they had an a minus
passport now they’re a solid a because
they can go pretty much everywhere in
the world croatia
is now the same
croatia which came into the eu a number
of years ago which had some restrictions
now they have achieved full tier a
status and so we have some people that
we’re aware of who
have obtained polish and croatian
citizenship through their ancestry and
now they’ve got this great travel
document uh but what if you were not
fortunate enough to have ancestry from
germany from italy from ireland from
other countries like that in europe most
the countries that are part of this visa
waiver program that allows you into the
us that are what we call tra passports
are in europe and so the alternative is
simply having to move there to that
country and learn the language and pay a
bunch of taxes and commit a bunch of
time to naturalize into the country the
only exceptions are like japan taiwan
south korea singapore those are pretty
difficult passports to get unless again
you have
ancestry well there’s a new country
that’s coming
that may be negotiating a
deal with the u.s that may be ascending
into visa waiver program status that
would give it t or a status and that
country is israel which would
theoretically open up tra travel
privileges to millions of people seeing
that you can become an israeli passport
simply by being jewish here’s the
article israel
in u.s visa talks eyes easing access for
palestinian americans
and the idea here is that there’s a
couple reasons that israel
one of the best friends of the united
states has not had access to visit the
u.s without getting a visa american
certainly can go to israel so the
reciprocity is already there from
israel’s side
but the the reason number one is to
become a
visa waiver program country to have
access to the us which again that makes
you what we call a t or a passport
you have to have number one an adjusted
refusal rate for b series visas below
three percent israel does not have that
they have said in the article that about
uh 40 of rejections were due to people
filling out the forms incorrectly and so
they’re going to do some education on
that and clear that up one of the other
issues
that i was aware of was if you ever go
to the mall in the u.s and you go and in
the middle they have like the the secret
uh crystals and the soaps that you know
the miracle soaps or whatever oftentimes
sold by uh as the stories have gone over
the years uh young israelis who come
over and they get visas and they’re not
supposed to be working they’re supposed
to be visiting but they end up taking
these jobs and so that was an issue with
the u.s said well hey we’re going to
require you to get a visa we’re going to
we’re going to smoke these people out
and so there were is my understanding
was there was a higher number of
rejections for younger israelis than
there were for older israelis who
theoretically already already had
careers going
uh and so the other issue that it’s
alluded to in this article is that
israel had
been alleged to be discriminating
against palestinian americans i don’t
know if they necessarily argue with that
very much
but the idea was
hey we don’t really want these people
with palestinian origin coming to israel
so the article from swiss info is the
website basically talks about how israel
was prepared to open up um
travel privileges to palestinian
americans in particular talking about
how
people of palestinian origin have often
had to go to other airports and take
what they call more onerous trips saying
that the israeli security force is ready
to handle that and saying that uh they
are having conversations with the u.s
state department just basically say
listen uh we’re getting rid of one of
the big issues that has long been a
thorn in your side that has
made you not want to give us this u.s
visa waiver access
can you help us get our adjusted refusal
rate down to the three percent which is
what is required to be part of the visa
waiver program and just stay in the visa
waiver program once until you’re
permanent
and the idea being that
you know there’s still some work to be
done because again the rate is higher
but they are working on the conditions
to get there and so
as someone who works with a number of
folks who are jewish and who could
theoretically qualify for israeli
citizenship
it’s always been a pretty good
citizenship and i’ve said listen uh if
you’re entitled to it it’s probably
worth claiming now it’s certainly not
the least dramatic passport and if
you’re an american and you’re israeli
you know you may not have the most
agnostic passports in your portfolio
might be worth adding something else to
the portfolio um that you know is is
very agnostic and people aren’t
concerned about
but
if you can get israeli citizenship you
should do that because it has long
offered access to pretty much all of
europe including to russia uh to canada
i mean pretty much to everywhere except
for the u.s and australia it was really
a top-tier travel document but it was an
a-minus because you didn’t have that u.s
access and for many of the folks that we
work with who are coming from the u.s
they want to know if something ever
happens to their u.s citizenship
they have the ability to potentially
come back they don’t want to get a visa
they don’t want to have to get
permission even to fly through their old
country so israel may be moving in that
direction now again if you already are
entitled to it i would take the passport
regardless in most circumstances but
this is one area where israel’s passport
may enter full tier a status in the next
couple of years as they resolve these
issues with the u.s that would be a
great win and because you have
so many potential people who are
eligible for this it means a lot of
people could get access to one of the
world’s best travel documents that lets
them travel freely if that were to
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