A second passport can widen where you travel visa-free. PassRank doesn’t advise on how to obtain citizenship — that’s a legal and personal matter — but it can show which passports carry the most travel access, so you can weigh the travel upside.
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How a second passport helps
With two passports you can present whichever one gives better access at a given border. Your effective reach becomes the union of both passports’ visa-free, visa-on-arrival and eTA destinations — so a second passport is most valuable when it opens countries your first one can’t.
Highest-access passports in 2026
If you’re comparing the travel value of potential second passports, these top the PassRank score:
| Passport | PassRank score | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Arab Emirates | 169 | 1 |
| Singapore | 163 | 2 |
| South Korea | 163 | 2 |
| Japan | 162 | 4 |
| Spain | 161 | 5 |
| Germany | 160 | 6 |
| Ireland | 160 | 6 |
EU passports: breadth plus the right to live in 27 countries
Beyond raw visa-free numbers, EU passports such as Portugal, Ireland, Malta and Spain add the right to live and work across the EU/EEA — a benefit no ranking score captures. They cluster at 155–161 on PassRank, near the global top.
Compare before you decide
The travel value of a second passport depends on what it adds over the one you hold. Use our head-to-head comparisons to see exactly which destinations a candidate passport opens that yours doesn’t — for example Portugal vs Spain or Singapore vs UAE. Then check each passport profile for the full destination lists.
For the broader picture, see the most powerful passports of 2026.