Freedom of movement is so much more than counting up the number of countries a passport holder can travel to visa-free.

Visa-free access is the laziest, lowest level metric that can be “measured” by anyone with access to wikipedia.

That’s why it’s cited and focused-on so much by wannabe mobility experts and influencers.

Raw quantity of visa-free access matters but not nearly as much as BS passport rankings would have you believe.

Here are the elements of freedom of movement that matter more when evaluating a mobility asset:

1. Core residency rights

2. Satellite residency rights

3. Access to borderless zones (like schengen)

4. country springboarding opportunities

5. Sturdiness of the mobility asset (how easily can it/will it be taken away from the issuing country)

6. Visa-free access to the 7-10 countries that matter to you most.

Those qualities are 👆 are messy, more challenging and can generally only be evaluated by someone who has real experience in getting citizenship and residencies AND understands the underlying laws and regs in play.

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