MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine passport has further reduced its strength, dropping to 82nd place in the 2021 Henley Passport Index (HPI) from last year’s 74th position. This latest ranking is the lowest forthe country’s main international travel document since 2006.
Henley & Partners, a global citizenship and residence advisory firm that oversees the global ranking of countries based on the travel freedom of its passport holders, said each passport is scored based on the total number of destinations a holder of the passport can access visa-free. This year, it assessed the strength of the passport of 199 countries.
For now, according to the 2021 HPI, Philippine passp…
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