The passport stamps that can get you black-listed from other countries

Josh Martin is a London-based journalist who writes across business and travel topics.

It really is the ultimate in travel privilege: as a holder of a New Zealand passport, being interrogated at the border, let alone refused entry to a country, barely crosses my mind.

Given the frequency that our tangible mark of citizenship graces the ranks of the world’s most valuable and useful passports, I’m more likely to be weighing up duty-free options or calculating the likelihood of finding a taxi at 2am than I am assessing the risk of not being granted entry to a destination.

We know there are passports that are practically useless for entering other countries as a tourist: try asking a Somali passport holder if they’ve ever booked a spontaneous holiday in the US. But even holders of coveted passports like New Zealand can be caught in the diplomatic crossfire, by way of their travel…