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Yea, but that's specifically the only one that isn't optional. Almost all other forms of ID are voluntary as long as you understand that voluntary means you ac
by munk-a 3y ago
Yea, but that's specifically the only one that isn't optional. Almost all other forms of ID are voluntary as long as you understand that voluntary means you accept not participating in some privileged activities (like driving a car on a road for a drivers license).
The US is actually insane about how little identification they require from residents and also not great about how expensive it can be to acquire certain forms of ID.
- FireBeyond 3y agoRight. But elsewhere in comments, the parent is talking about how you just "obtain a passport, it doesn't need an SSN or home address". I'm curious how one obtains a US passport without a birth certificate or SSN. (But yes, issuance of a passport is "optional").
- landemva 3y agoSee Letter Of No Record at https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/citizenship-evidence.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app... Really helpful to have birth listed in a couple church public registers. For baby passport, basically the parents attest to the child being born as American along with "hey look at this public record". And a SSN is apparently never required and State Dept should probably not being relying on a tax agency number. I mistakenly transposed and messed up the digits for the SSN box ten years ago and the passport arrived. So they didn't even do a lookup on it.