Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) citizenship means nothing to over 95.000 citizens. Former citizens were deregistered at their personal request. They did not have to justify themselves to anyone, but there are many reasons.
BiH passports are most often thrown in the water because of German or Austrian ones. Renunciation of BiH citizenship costs 800 BAM.
”In informal conversations, they most often state the following as the real reason: the right to own real estate, easier travel, easier studying abroad, better labor and legal status, and the like.”
”A large number of BiH citizens who have recently renounced BiH citizenship were born abroad, are under the age of 30, have not been integrated into BiH society, are educated and fully integrated into the environments in which they live, and speak English and German much better than the languages in use in BiH,” they said in the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the Council of Ministers of BiH.
BiH has an agreement on dual citizenship with Serbia, Croatia, and Sweden. Passports of these countries, according to research by numerous international agencies, are worth more than BiH passports, Radio Sarajevo writes.
Henley&Partners, a residence and citizenship planning consultancy agency, ranked world passports for 2022 according to the freedom of travel they allow, and Japan took first place, while Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was in 51st place.
A trio of Asian passports offer their holders more freedom to travel the world than those of any other country, according to a new quarterly report released by the company.
The United States (U.S.) is in 7th place
Japan, ahead of Singapore and South Korea, offered its citizens visa-free or visa-on-demand access to a record 193 destinations worldwide, compared to 192 offered by the countries in second place.
Below the top three in Asia, several European countries are near the top of the rankings. Germany and Spain are tied at 190 destinations, followed by Finland, Italy, Luxembourg at 189. Then Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden are tied for fifth place, while France, Ireland, Portugal and Great Britain are at 6th.
New Zealand and the U.S. are in 7th place, along with Belgium, Norway and Switzerland.
Slovenia ranked best in the region
Afghan nationals are again at the bottom of the index and can only enter 27 countries without a visa. Due to the invasion of Ukraine, Russian passport holders are more cut off from the rest of the world than ever before. Despite this, they ranked 50th on the list.
The BiH passport allows citizens access to 118 countries without the prior issuance of a visa and was ranked 51st.
Slovenia is ranked best in the region at 11th position, Croatia is 17th on the list, Serbia is 38th, while Montenegro is 48th.
