A recent report ranked Australia's passport as the equal-seventh most powerful in the world, based on the number of countries it grants access to. It comes as demand for Australian citizenship reaches never-before-seen levels, with the Federal Government revealing in August close to 189,000 people were waiting for their citizenship applications to be processed.
The Australian passport currently gives holders access to 183 nations without having to pay a fee or apply for a visa before arriving. Based on the Henley Passport Index, a project by the citizenship planning firm Henley and Partners Citizens based on data from the International Air Transport Authority, the passport is among the most useful on earth. Out of 199 passports and 227 destinations considered in the index, only 21 other countries provide their passport holders more visa-free or on-arrival access to other jurisdictions.
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