This video was made possible by Dashlane. Manage your online security for free at dashlane.com/HAI. So, what’s the furthest you could legally
travel without a passport? You know, for the next time when some guy
under a bridge starts talking you up, lures you in with some free ho hos, and next thing
you know it you’re doing international drug runs until the feds seize your passport. Now, of course, there are some situations
where you can travel across any international border without a passport. For example,—get ready for some pedantry—this
is a United Nations Laissez Passer which is not technically a passport. It is a travel document issued by the UN to
the staff of itself and other international organizations. This works largely like a normal passport
and even has some extra special features like visa-free access to more countries than some
passports and certain levels of diplomatic privileges with the added disadvantage of
that apparently immigration officers often don’t know what these are and get confused. Of course that’s because these are rather
rare which is also why, for the purposes of this video, we’re not going to close up
shop one minute in and end by saying the furthest you could travel without a passport would
be Whangarei, New Zealand to Tangier, Morocco on one of these bad boys. So let’s say, what’s the furthest you
could travel without a passport as a normal person—ie not sailing a boat from New York
nonstop through international waters to the Indian Ocean and calling it a day which you
could technically legally do without a passport. Returning to any country might be difficult,
though. Although, the US has a rule for American citizens
when taking a cruise that departs and returns to the same place, for example, from Miami
to the Bahamas to Miami, where you don’t need a passport to get back into the US—only
proof of citizenship like a birth certificate. This rule is intended for cruises to places
like the Bahamas and Bermuda where passports aren’t required to enter when on cruises
but the notable detail for this rule is that it’s only for cruises that only visit Canada,
Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda so while you can visit other countries without a passport,
you can’t get all that far away from the US. Cruises are one of the few ways you can cross
international borders without a passport, though. But, a better solution to our big question
lies with empires. Of course the last time I made fun of the
British they got a bit salty so let’s just forget about them and talk about the French. The UK will need to get used to people doing
that pretty soon anyways. Like the Brits, the French still hold on to
a few far-flung pieces of their former empire. In fact, France is the only country to hold
territory on six of the seven continents. Thanks to that, you could travel from Urepel,
France to the town of Vao and still be in France despite them being 10,900 miles or
17,500 kilometers away from each other. Of course that’s because Urepel is in metropolitan
France and the other is in New Caledonia—an overseas collectivity of France. Now, this is probably the furthest distance
between two points in a single country. Feel free to fact check me on that but wait,
wait, wait—I know you’re about to clap down a comment saying that its further from
the Svalbard, Norway to Norway’s Antarctic claim but Norway’s Antarctic claim is very
much disputed by literally everyone except for these guys so it doesn’t count. If the Sahrawi Republic better recognized
than you, you’re really not doing too well. Getting back to New Caledonia, there’s a
problem preventing passport-free travel to this bit of France. It’s way too far from metropolitan France
for a non-stop flight so you have to connect via a foreign country so you’d need a passport. There are closer bits of France overseas,
though, such as Réunion. Réunion is an overseas department of France
meaning it is just as much as part of France politically as Île de France—the region
Paris is in. It’s basically the political equivalent
of Hawaii to the US. There are plenty of nonstop flights from France
to Réunion and, in fact, this eleven hour hop down south is the longest non-stop domestic
flight in the world. While there is an immigration check, all you’ll
need, assuming you’re an EU citizen, is your EU identity card. But you could go even further than the 6,000
miles or 10,000 kilometers to Réunion if you experience the joys of domestic flying
in the US of A. One could, for example, drive from Point Udall in the US Virgin Islands
to St. Croix, fly to San Juan, Puerto Rico, fly to Chicago, fly to Los Angeles, fly to
Honolulu, fly to Guam, and drive to Point Udall—yeah, they were named after brothers. 9,500 miles or 15,300 kilometers lay between
those two points which are both, of course, in the US so you wouldn’t need a passport
to fly between them assuming you’re American. You would only need a US government issued
ID for the customs formalities when flying to or from Guam or the US Virgin Islands since
they’re US insular possessions. That means that this is, probably, maybe,
possibly the furthest distance you could travel as a normal person on normal, scheduled transport
without a passport. If you think I’m wrong, though, leave a
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