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Carrying a copy of your passport is an excellent idea. Carrying your actual passport around is a great way to lose it and spend the rest of your vacation in an

Carrying a copy of your passport is an excellent idea. Carrying your actual passport around is a great way to lose it and spend the rest of your vacation in an immigration office dealing with paperwork.

qwerta 12y ago
+ driving license as valid ID.
- seanmcdirmid 12y ago
  Driver licenses are useless as IDs abroad.
  - cageface 12y ago
    They will actually sometimes accept them here in Vietnam for various things but Vietnam is still kind of the wild west legally. Certainly not a good idea to count on it.
    - seanmcdirmid 12y ago
      They are useless in China, but mine expired 8 years ago.
  - nwh 12y ago
    An Australian one is fine in the UK, you can even drive using one.
    - mapleoin 12y ago
      That's pretty amazing how Australians can use a driver's license to drive a car.
  - kissickas 12y ago
    I live outside of the US for most of the year and can say that my driver's license is not at all useless as an ID. In fact, I have been at police checkpoints in two countries where they refused to see my passport and specifically requested that I present my driver's license - but these were both when I was driving, of course.
- legulere 12y ago
  At least in Germany driving licenses aren't valid ID.
  - qwerta 12y ago
    I was just fine with drivers license for random check.
    - dagw 12y ago
      It depends on why they're checking you and what mood they're in. Often times they'll accept it just to make everybody's life easier, but they don't have to.
billpaetzke 12y ago
Ya I carried a laminated two-sided copy of the info and signature page of my passport scaled down to the size of a credit card/driver's license. Worked throughout Western Europe and Latin America for authorizing credit card purchases in person and entry into venues. Cost me $2 to make at FedEx Office/Kinkos and an employee did it all for me, since I came at an off-peak hour. Of course at official border crossings, you need the real passport.

qwerta 12y ago

+ driving license as valid ID.

seanmcdirmid 12y ago
Driver licenses are useless as IDs abroad.
- cageface 12y ago
  They will actually sometimes accept them here in Vietnam for various things but Vietnam is still kind of the wild west legally. Certainly not a good idea to count on it.
  - seanmcdirmid 12y ago
    They are useless in China, but mine expired 8 years ago.
- nwh 12y ago
  An Australian one is fine in the UK, you can even drive using one.
  - mapleoin 12y ago
    That's pretty amazing how Australians can use a driver's license to drive a car.
- kissickas 12y ago
  I live outside of the US for most of the year and can say that my driver's license is not at all useless as an ID. In fact, I have been at police checkpoints in two countries where they refused to see my passport and specifically requested that I present my driver's license - but these were both when I was driving, of course.
legulere 12y ago
At least in Germany driving licenses aren't valid ID.
- qwerta 12y ago
  I was just fine with drivers license for random check.
  - dagw 12y ago
    It depends on why they're checking you and what mood they're in. Often times they'll accept it just to make everybody's life easier, but they don't have to.

billpaetzke 12y ago

Ya I carried a laminated two-sided copy of the info and signature page of my passport scaled down to the size of a credit card/driver's license. Worked throughout Western Europe and Latin America for authorizing credit card purchases in person and entry into venues. Cost me $2 to make at FedEx Office/Kinkos and an employee did it all for me, since I came at an off-peak hour. Of course at official border crossings, you need the real passport.