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> A given person only gets one. Not really. Consider: old passports, multiple citizenship, emergency passports, identity cards which can be used as passports,

by cesarb 7y ago

> A given person only gets one. Not really. Consider: old passports, multiple citizenship, emergency passports, identity cards which can be used as passports, etc.

vinay427 7y ago
I generally agree with a minor quibble: There isn't an identity card that can be used as a passport. There are identity cards that are sufficient for limited travel and are unrecognized elsewhere. In the relatively widespread EU++ ID card system, at least in the country I live in, ID cards can't even be used in biometric immigration gates which require passports.
- disabled 7y ago
  Americans can actually get "passport card" which functions like the EU national identity cards, within the United States. It is intended for use within the United States, as ID laws are changing. However, the RFID chip in the US passport card only has the identifying number encoded in it, for lookup in government databases. US biometric passports of course contain all of the traveler's information. Likewise EU national identity cards are biometric, as this is the standard. With respect to the EU, as you know, there is to be a transition to biometric EU national ID cards, if countries have not already switched to them. The vast majority of countries already have. Some EU national ID cards are more useful than others, giving people online identities, for example. Although I am culturally an American, I am also Croatian. I hold two citizenships. Croatia participates in the eID scheme [1]. Next time I go to Croatia, I am getting my eID, so I have an official identity on the internet. I am excited, as silly as it sounds. [1] https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eID https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eID
  - arcticbull 7y ago
    A US passport card is sufficient for entry via land or sea ports only to: Canada, Mexico, The Caribbean and Bermuda.
elil17 7y ago
The passport RFID chip contains the expiration date, so you can eliminate expired passports.

by cesarb 7y ago

> A given person only gets one. Not really. Consider: old passports, multiple citizenship, emergency passports, identity cards which can be used as passports, etc.

vinay427 7y ago

I generally agree with a minor quibble: There isn't an identity card that can be used as a passport. There are identity cards that are sufficient for limited travel and are unrecognized elsewhere. In the relatively widespread EU++ ID card system, at least in the country I live in, ID cards can't even be used in biometric immigration gates which require passports.

disabled 7y ago
Americans can actually get "passport card" which functions like the EU national identity cards, within the United States. It is intended for use within the United States, as ID laws are changing. However, the RFID chip in the US passport card only has the identifying number encoded in it, for lookup in government databases. US biometric passports of course contain all of the traveler's information. Likewise EU national identity cards are biometric, as this is the standard. With respect to the EU, as you know, there is to be a transition to biometric EU national ID cards, if countries have not already switched to them. The vast majority of countries already have. Some EU national ID cards are more useful than others, giving people online identities, for example. Although I am culturally an American, I am also Croatian. I hold two citizenships. Croatia participates in the eID scheme [1]. Next time I go to Croatia, I am getting my eID, so I have an official identity on the internet. I am excited, as silly as it sounds. [1] https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eID https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eID
- arcticbull 7y ago
  A US passport card is sufficient for entry via land or sea ports only to: Canada, Mexico, The Caribbean and Bermuda.

elil17 7y ago

The passport RFID chip contains the expiration date, so you can eliminate expired passports.