Passport ID Usage

Discussions focus on using passports as identification for travel and compliance with ID requirements like REAL ID, including concerns about revocation, accessibility for non-holders, multiple passports, stamps, and diplomatic variants.

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ctb_mg Apr 15, 2015 View on HN

seems strange. what about people who do not have passports? are they out of luck? any reasons provided why they needed a passport explicitly?

teqsun Apr 11, 2025 View on HN

Doesn't the same concern apply to your passport?

rumpelstiltskin Sep 10, 2010 View on HN

can you elaborate on this passport issue? are you in a foreign country?

LgWoodenBadger Dec 12, 2025 View on HN

As if passports can't be revoked electronically now

tapatio Nov 3, 2022 View on HN

Not true, a passport will work as well.

po Aug 31, 2023 View on HN

depends... which passport are you asking about?

a_gnostic Dec 12, 2023 View on HN

So just use passports? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

leetbulb Mar 31, 2022 View on HN

Makes sense. I stand corrected. I was under the assumption you could use a passport.

davchana Jul 30, 2018 View on HN

Its not that we, as in public, have a choice of passport issuers :)

m-localhost Oct 3, 2018 View on HN

I see this recommendation quite often and wonder if you get in trouble sooner or later, at least if you want to travel to the US. I would think the purpose of a passport is a single identification with a track record. Everything else is cheating. Not?