by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 29, 2012 | Society
Henley and Partners (H&P), a global legal firm that deals with immigration, have released their 2012 Visa Restriction Index with no major surprises. The Lebanese passport remains at bottom 10, tied with Nepal. In terms of Arab countries, here is the list of...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 14, 2011 | Society
[notice]An update (2012) to this post is available here: Lebanon Remains at the Bottom of Visa Free Travel Index[/notice] Henley and Partners (H&P), a global legal firm that deals with immigration, has released their 2011 International Visa Restriction List. Last...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jul 14, 2011 | Government
In 2010, Michael Karam had written an article for Abu Dhabi’s The National about the Lebanese love affair with foreign passports. He goes to mention the “nationality hierarchy” in that, for Lebanese, certain passports are above others (in his...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 23, 2010 | Society
The US State Department has issued statistics covering US non-immigrant visa rejection rates for the first three quarters of 2010 by nationality. Here’s the list of Arab countries ranked in order of decreasing rejection rates: Somalia – 69.6% Djibouti...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 5, 2010 | Lebanese Abroard
A debate is raging in Africa’s Sierra Leone on whether people of Lebanese ancestry, born and bred in the country, should be given passports: Nasser Ayoub, a successful businessman, said he could have bribed somebody to get a Sierra Leonean passport, but he...