And so it begins, Citizens of America welcome to Europe where we have to have ID, something like this is the beginning of the end.
before you know it, this thing will be a mandatory requirement...
It is only valid for certain common travel to the US from our neighbors. It is to cut the costs of issuing all the people who cross the border regularly a full passport. Which is a big thing that a lot of people will lose. If I lived near the border or took Caribbean cruises this looks like a good deal. I can carry it in my wallet and I don't need that big passport. Also look at the costs, pretty cheap compared to a regular passport. But hey, if it is that onerous an invasion of your privacy by all means don't get one and don't leave the US. Pretty simple if you ask me. If you get a regular passport there is a barcode on it that they use now to verify your record with a database. The RFID just takes advantage of new technology that will save wear on the card for frequent travelers.
I think it is a good idea...I'd sure like something to put in my wallet vice the bigger passport. Regardless...if you got a background check or served in the military...pretty sure the government knows all about you.
Ok, so maybe I wasn't clear. The bold text is key. As for the show us your papers, you already have to do that to enter the US legally only it is a big passport, not a credit card sized id card. I suppose you can go to a bordering country and try to re-enter illegally, but that is up to you.
U.S. PASSPORT CARD APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1
U.S. citizens may begin applying in advance for the new U.S. Passport Card beginning February 1, 2008, U.S. Passport Card in anticipation of land border travel document requirements. We expect cards will be available and mailed to applicants in spring 2008.
The passport card will facilitate entry and expedite document processing at U.S. land and sea ports-of-entry when arriving from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda. The card may not be used to travel by air. It will otherwise carry the rights and privileges of the U.S. passport book and will be adjudicated to the exact same standards.
The Department of State is issuing this passport card in response to the needs of border resident communities for a less expensive and more portable alternative to the traditional passport book. The card will have the same validity period as a passport book: 10 years for an adult, five for children 15 and younger. For adults who already have a passport book, they may apply for the card as a passport renewal and pay only $20. First-time applicants will pay $45 for adult cards and $35 for children.
To facilitate the frequent travel of U.S. citizens living in border communities and to meet DHS’s operational needs at land borders, the passport card will contain a vicinity-read radio frequency identification (RFID) chip. This chip will link the card to a stored record in secure government databases. There will be no personal information written to the RFID chip itself.
maybe wait a few weeks, before getting one of "these card's" then they might be giving away "patches", "badges", and "mulit-state permits" in addition to "the card".
Wow, don't you guys have something real to get worked up over? A smaller, cheaper passport for certain modes of international travel is somehow an infringement on your rights and/or privacy? Please...
Times are a changing good people. The new full size passport has a RFID chip sewed into the paper. Could track you thru the whole airport, almost anywhere. You need a passport for all boarder crossings. I have the fly clear card. Clear Registered Travelers Fly Through Airport Security (If anybody signs up they me know PM so I get a free month). Pre-screened for flights. It cost $99.00 per year but I wont have to take off my shoes. Goverment now has my prints, my picture they now have an image of my irises. That's BIG Brother watching. With credit cards,EZ Pass,Speedpass, Cell phones with GPS. No place to hide.
500Mag - The short answer is Yes, birth certificates are ridiculously easy to forge. They are very often feeder documents for other forms of false ID as well. The US Passport, while still not infalible, is one of the hardest documents in the world to forge (at least, to forge it well). It is, after all, the most sought after ID document on the planet...
And Hitch King, I don't know what airports you're going to, but we can NOT track a passport like it had some sort of GPS in it. All the printed info on the passport is simply stored electronically on the passport - when you pass through immigration control, they will swipe it and verify that the electronic info matches the printed info. This prevents photo substitution passport fraud (and many other types of fraud where a legitimate document is altered), but it's not some kind of locator beacon...
Doobie - your cartoon, while cute, has no relevance to this discussion. Not only is the new document not mandatory, it has no tracking capabilities. I know it's a lot more fun to imagine some dark conspiracy behind everything, but this just ain't it...
The stored in formation is equivalent to what you can read if the card is in your possession, and serves to help verify that the passport has not been altered.
In Washington we can get an enhanced drivers license which does the same thing:
I'm not sure what some people here are getting all worked up about? This is just a cheaper and easier to carry "limited use" passport. Seems like a good idea to me.
All this "papers please" BS and in the same breath keep the illegal aliens out. If you want to keep the illegals out then you better be ready to prove you are legal and a DL doesn't cut it. I have no reason to suspect that a single one of you are illegal ailiens but I also no reason other then you word to think you are a US citizen unless you can prove it. I really want to know how a LEO is supposed to know if someone is a legal alien without asking them for papers. If you are a US citizen then how is the LEO supposed to know that you are without the dreaded mind reading device? Maybe Mr. Spock can hold a seminar on the Vulcan Mind Meld so the border guards won't have to inconvience US citizens that are mixed in with the thousands of illegals crossing the border each day.
Some of you people complain abut the police yet think they are miracle workers at the same time.
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