Which US passport to apply for? Passport card?
#61
Re: Which US passport to apply for? Passport card?
This is clearly for another topic. But government snooping is not as innocent as you may think. In short, lets pretend good guys are in power today. No need to worry right. Tomorrow bad guys take over and they have the entire system already set up.
Asking "What do you have to hide?" is very dangerous. If you say you don't care about privacy, because you have nothing to hide that basically equals to saying you don't care about free speech, because you have nothing to say.
We may start another thread for this :-)
Asking "What do you have to hide?" is very dangerous. If you say you don't care about privacy, because you have nothing to hide that basically equals to saying you don't care about free speech, because you have nothing to say.
We may start another thread for this :-)
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
#62
Re: Which US passport to apply for? Passport card?
My regular US passport is pretty much full, after 5 years. I didn't get the larger one as at the time you could add pages to your passport. That is no longer an option and I'll likely have to renew in the next year or so. It'll be the big boy next time. I find the passport card useful, as it proves US citizenship and is accepted a form of federal ID everywhere. More useful than a non real-id compliant Oregon DL....
#63
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Which reminds me of a time before I had moved here. I was with my wife to be getting on a boat in Portland and they accepted my cinema pass as a form of photo ID.
#64
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But they are looking, and there's nothing much I can do about it. Life is too short to stress about such things, so I don't and I won't. Hence my attitude.
#65
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Re: Which US passport to apply for? Passport card?
There was one valid point somebody brought up. The passport card can serve as proof of citizenship. Should you lose your passport and birth or naturalization certificate then you still have another form of ID.
One question. Can expired US passport be used as a valid proof of citizenship?
I think you are totally correct. Life is too short to worry about stuff we have no control over.
#67
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On the subject of passport quality, the old 5-year Canadian passports were a joke, they seemed to be made out of toilet paper and papier-maché as far as I could tell. Get one wet and it would dissolve I'm sure. Since they went to 10-year passports in 2013 they are much better.
Can't honestly see the point to 52-page passports, you'd have to be one hell of a traveller to out of the way places, you've already got a UK passport so that doesn't get stamped when going to the UK. Haven't gotten a stamp in my UK passport either since I renewed it, thinking about it. Compared to my old one which is covered in visas and stamps.
#68
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I suggested to the UKPO that they issue a passport card for travel around Europe as they don't stamp the passport and they told me they had been considering the idea for some time. Something tells me that isn't going to happen.
I made the same suggestion to Passport Canada (given that most Canadians go to the US and they also don't stamp Canadian passports) and got back the snottiest response I think I've ever gotten from a civil servant.
#69
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Re: Which US passport to apply for? Passport card?
Isn't an enhanced driving licence the Canadian equivalent of a passport card?
#70
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Arizona has been issuing REAL ID compliant ID for awhile now.
I suggested to the UKPO that they issue a passport card for travel around Europe as they don't stamp the passport and they told me they had been considering the idea for some time. Something tells me that isn't going to happen.
I made the same suggestion to Passport Canada (given that most Canadians go to the US and they also don't stamp Canadian passports) and got back the snottiest response I think I've ever gotten from a civil servant.
I suggested to the UKPO that they issue a passport card for travel around Europe as they don't stamp the passport and they told me they had been considering the idea for some time. Something tells me that isn't going to happen.
I made the same suggestion to Passport Canada (given that most Canadians go to the US and they also don't stamp Canadian passports) and got back the snottiest response I think I've ever gotten from a civil servant.