Not all passports are the same
Drive with John Perlman · 3 June 2026 · 4m
Speaker 1: So I read a very very interesting piece indeed off the Business Day site, but Speaker 1: something written by the on the platform, if I can call it that the conversation Speaker 1: where we often go for stuff that's done by university academics but turned into very Speaker 1: very readable material. Indeed, now somebody who is an academic at the University of Greenwich. Speaker 1: I think that's Greenwich in the UK. I double checked later, not Greenwich in Connecticut. Speaker 1: But anyway, Isabella king Yay wrote a piece talking about week passports. They did a Speaker 1: study that countries that have low ranking travel documents face significant challenges. It happens at Speaker 1: the visa stage. It happens as you're passing across borders, the kind of questions you Speaker 1: get asked and so on, which made me wonder, is a South African passport a Speaker 1: week passport? Candice Margan is an immigration specialist and director of a company called Visas Speaker 1: Abroad. Miss Margan, welcome and thanks very much much for your time. South African passports. Speaker 1: Where do we rank? I assume we are stronger in Rugby than passports, but how Speaker 1: exactly strong? All week? Are we? Good? Afternoon? Hi John? Speaker 2: How are you doing? Speaker 1: Yes? Well? Thanks? I hope you will too. Speaker 2: Go ahead, Thank you so much, Johanna. I do think our lowly passport does tougher Speaker 2: a little bit of challenges. We actually currently ranked as forty eighth in the world Speaker 2: out of one hundred and ninety nine passports, so does the ranking doesn't sound too Speaker 2: bad, but it definitely affects you when you're trying to apply for a visa, as…
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