Canadian passports surpass the United States with new global rankings.
Nigerian News Nalin It is reported that Canadian passports are listed as seventh in the world’s most powerful passport in 2025.
The ranking is completed by global consulting companies, Henry and partners, and based on the Canadian passport holder can access the destination where there is no previous visa.
In 2025, Canadian passport holders can use 188 destinations for free. This connects Canada and Malta and Poland, which is also seventh.
This also marks that the Canadian passport defeated the American passport for the first time since the company began to release its global ranking Henry Passport Index in 2006.
This year, the United States ranked ninth on the list and ranked seventh last year.
On the other hand, Canadian passports have maintained their position since 2024 and ranked seventh. From 2023, when Canadian passports ranked in eight positions, this was a growth.
According to the index, Egypt and Brazil are two countries, and in 2025, the visa restrictions on Canadians were canceled. On the other hand, Gabon and Dogo now ask Canadians to have visas to visit.
Although Canada has maintained its status in seventh place, Henry and partners have pointed out that in the past ten years, Canada ranked fourth in 2015 and ranked three in the past ten years.
Methodology
The Henry Passport Index regards the destination as a visa without visa.
Do not calculate the destination of the electronic visa (E-VISA) approved by the government.
This helps to determine the overall mobility of passport holders.
The index is based on data from the International Air Transport Association enhanced by Henry and the partner research team.
What is the Canadian passport compared with other passports?
Henry’s passport indexes a non -visa channel to focus on 199 different passports to 227 travel destinations.
This year, Singapore re -obtained the top challenge as the most powerful passport, so that their holders won 195 among 227 destinations around the world.
Secondly, Japan offers a visa -free reaching 193 destinations.
Afghanistan fell at the bottom of the list and had no visa to enter 26 destinations.
The index also pointed out that the UAE is one of the largest “climbers” in the past ten years. In the past ten years, 72 destinations have been entered, and in 2025 to 10th place.
How do I get a Canadian passport?
In order to obtain a Canadian passport, it is necessary to become a Canadian citizen first.
People born in Canada will automatically qualify.
notes: If someone is a direct child of Canadian citizens (at their birth), they may be eligible to inherit their citizenship from their parents through current temporary measures.
For those born in Canada, this may be a long process, involving the first to obtain the Permanent residence in Canada. PR needs to consider many ways.
After reaching the state of public relations, there are other standards that need to be met, that is,:
- Canada’s body of citizenship is required (you must live in Canada for at least three years);
- Submit taxes and pay any unpaid taxes owed;
- Through citizen test; and
- Oath citizenship.
Generally, it takes more than three years to become a Canadian citizen through naturalization.
