It makes sense that Poorer/Developing countries have to pay more for visas and wait in line for much longer. Its just logical. Most developed countries also have well developed relations and procedures to speed things up. There is also an internal trust, which means that Canadians can easily and with minimal checks let in people coming from the US land border, because they know that the US border control has already done their strict background checks. Same for EU vs USA. The "poorer" countries also pay more because its more difficult for the officials to process their documents. Its much more difficult to process a document which isn't written in your language or any of the common languages spoken in the office. Another major reason is of course the difference in income in a wealthy country vs poor country. If you travel from one wealthy country to another wealthy country, then you have less motivation to overstay your visa and get an illegal job somewhere. You are also far more likely to be able to return to your country. Many people from poor countries only have 1 way ticket and no means to even stay in their destination country, let alone to return. This is why Australia for example requires tourists to show their bank statement, proving that they have 5000 dollars on their bank account( this applies to Estonians too ). On top of that, people from developing countries more likely to get into trouble in the wealthier countries due to cultural and legal differences. In short, there is a lot less contrast between all the wealthy countries compared to the difference between wealthy and poor countries. The more different a country is, the more difficult and problematic the visa/travel experience may end up being.
i get the general idea here but also tons of generalizations that are problematic. Many countries that make up the so called "developing world" have English as their official language therefore requiring no translation. The fees and processes discussed apply to everyone (or most persons) from the country. You could be a tenured university professor in an English speaking Caribbean country going to present at a conference or collaborate on a research project in North America/Europe, go through the entire process submitting everything flawlessly and still face the possibility of being denied.
Congratulations on the Citizenship. Happy to see genuine good people moving to Estonia. Estonian passport is ridiculously powerful. I moved to UK a while back and with brexit, getting a settlement status for me took quite literally one week. I know Polish people who had to wait nearly half s year. And some who had to go in in-person to go through a screening process. And only later I discovered a controversy that apparently there settlement status grants were biased towards some countries.
I thank the unmentioned diplomats and bureaucrats that have managed to make our passport as powerful. This stuff wasn't free. A lot of thankless work went into this.
i am glad that i am an Indian. i have been to europe 2 times and three times in UK. i am living in USA from last 6 years i am Indian passport holder but thank god i have never experienced any trouble at immigration in any country. even when the first time i came to usa back in 2017 the immigration officer just asked me 2-3 questions and i was done within 1-2 minutes thats it.
Thank you for choosing Estonia, we have gained a lot! On suur rõõm, et meile tulevad targad inimesed.
It makes sense that Poorer/Developing countries have to pay more for visas and wait in line for much longer. Its just logical. Most developed countries also have well developed relations and procedures to speed things up. There is also an internal trust, which means that Canadians can easily and with minimal checks let in people coming from the US land border, because they know that the US border control has already done their strict background checks. Same for EU vs USA. The "poorer" countries also pay more because its more difficult for the officials to process their documents. Its much more difficult to process a document which isn't written in your language or any of the common languages spoken in the office. Another major reason is of course the difference in income in a wealthy country vs poor country. If you travel from one wealthy country to another wealthy country, then you have less motivation to overstay your visa and get an illegal job somewhere. You are also far more likely to be able to return to your country. Many people from poor countries only have 1 way ticket and no means to even stay in their destination country, let alone to return. This is why Australia for example requires tourists to show their bank statement, proving that they have 5000 dollars on their bank account( this applies to Estonians too ). On top of that, people from developing countries more likely to get into trouble in the wealthier countries due to cultural and legal differences. In short, there is a lot less contrast between all the wealthy countries compared to the difference between wealthy and poor countries. The more different a country is, the more difficult and problematic the visa/travel experience may end up being.
i get the general idea here but also tons of generalizations that are problematic. Many countries that make up the so called "developing world" have English as their official language therefore requiring no translation. The fees and processes discussed apply to everyone (or most persons) from the country. You could be a tenured university professor in an English speaking Caribbean country going to present at a conference or collaborate on a research project in North America/Europe, go through the entire process submitting everything flawlessly and still face the possibility of being denied.
Yup. Never used my Pakistani passport after I got my US passport. What a relief.
Welcome back Manan ! Hope you had a great trip to US.
Congrads on your citizenship Manan!
Excellent video and experience of having a weak passport
Congratulations on the Citizenship. Happy to see genuine good people moving to Estonia.
Estonian passport is ridiculously powerful.
I moved to UK a while back and with brexit, getting a settlement status for me took quite literally one week. I know Polish people who had to wait nearly half s year. And some who had to go in in-person to go through a screening process. And only later I discovered a controversy that apparently there settlement status grants were biased towards some countries.
Nice video you show the reality 😢😢
I thank the unmentioned diplomats and bureaucrats that have managed to make our passport as powerful. This stuff wasn't free. A lot of thankless work went into this.
I was steered into "The Room" forty years ago in Mexico while traveling on a US passport.
i am glad that i am an Indian. i have been to europe 2 times and three times in UK. i am living in USA from last 6 years i am Indian passport holder but thank god i have never experienced any trouble at immigration in any country. even when the first time i came to usa back in 2017 the immigration officer just asked me 2-3 questions and i was done within 1-2 minutes thats it.
Indian passport 🆔 and NIC are not used by illegal Afghan Irani immigrants migrants
Nice video bro.which city u should live in estonia?
Also transit visas can be a headache.
It is better to get a visit visa IMO.
Now you can visit Israel as well 😊
Looking forward.
Do you speak Estonian on the B1 level?
Correct
my dumbass thinking its the singapore passport
😀 technically it is the best passport in the world.
104th seems like average not bad. You seem to a habit of marginalising average people.
It’s 4th from the bottom. What kind of average is that.
@@MananAnwar Are you telling me there are only 107 countries in the world?
@@xtwmx Whichever index that was covered in the video only surveyed 107 states' passports.