#passport — Public Fediverse posts

Looking for a Turkish someone who applied for a US visa and is residing in the Netherlands. Is it even possible to apply from an embassy here? I can’t afford to go back to Turkey and wait 6 months for my passport… help….

#visa #Netherlands #turkey #passport #usvisa

If implemented, the proposal would require all #parents to provide proof of their own #citizenship, such as a valid #US passport or birth certificate, or evidence of their #immigration status, such as an I-94 form or a legal permanent residency card, when submitting a #passport application for their #children. The information would be used by the government to determine if the ​child qualifies for citizenship under #Trump’s ​new [unconstitutional] order, the #State Dept proposal ⁠says.

#law

Malaysian Immigration Halts Passports With Validity Over 10 Years #10yearvalidity #news #passport

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/401295/immigration-halts-passports-over-10-years/

The Global #Hierarchy No One #Talks About #Travel #Passport #yt #Uncivilized #yt

https://youtu.be/f-yJMwl2J8s

Can we go back to the Before times please?
#BrexitDisaster #RejoinEU #Passport #FreedomOfMovement

There ain’t no bonus like a #Brexit bonus

#Brexit #BrexitBritain #BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitLies #UK #Politics #UKPolitics
#UKPol #EU #RejoinEU #NorthHerts #Hitchin #Letchworth #Baldock #Royston #Passport

How much of a problem is it if my officially supplied south afican passport has the top of my hair/head cropped off (face still clearly visible) in the photo. Are other countries gonna give me problems coz of this?

Anyone have any experience with this?

#southafrica #passport #travel

I got my first ever passport in the mail today. I applied ten days ago, and I didn’t even choose expedited service. For once these days I’m actually impressed with the government. #Passport

🚷 Passport #Inequality Is Social Injustice

"Passports from some places allow their holders to travel abroad simply by booking a flight and packing a bag. Others, however, entail booking an appointment at the nearest consulate, presenting documents to prove identity and financial means, then waiting weeks for a decision."

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/jul/23/most-powerful-passports-ranked

🏷️ #equality #freedom #geopolitics #passport #SocialInjustice #SocialJustice #travel @1440daily

@elsua54 How do you measure the failure in #COVID (for them)?

My thinking is they exercised their collective powers, showing us:

1/ They can ignore professional advice & solutions

2/ They can make us do silly things / change @normal life, scare us unnecessarily for perhaps what wasn't as big as they stated or for #old people mainly.

3/ We were forced / made ilegal to go places without #COVID #passport, #food #grocery #places #travel etc

@elsua54 On identity and #passport:

Sure, it might work for you
(you prob had a good start in life right?).

Iincreasingly the demand is to use paperwork, ID, SIM card (say mid-level) to buy. #Passports sometimes to verify yourself.

Even without some, the other people are using those middle-men so you have much less people to work / create with (what Mastodon needs to answer).

People get "more options" provided by bad people in a bad #circular #economy that's #growing a #negative #alliance.

@mf_analysis I always have a bit of an issue with these rankings because they are so simplistic, only looking at whether a visa is required to pass a border for a visit.

They completely neglect other benefits such as ability to do work in said country, or live, or own property.

1/2 #PassportRankings #Passport

How powerful is your passport? Explore the global rankings.

A symbol of global inequalities and shifting geopolitical fortunes, some passports offer their holders far more freedom to travel than others.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260723-how-powerful-is-your-passport-explore-the-global-rankings?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Passport #Travel #Visa #PassportRankings #PassportPower #PassportStrength

The U.S. Passport Is Stuck, The UAE’s Is Gaining Fast

https://skift.com/2026/07/21/the-u-s-passport-is-stuck-the-uaes-is-gaining-fast/

#travel #passport #ranking

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/16/british-girl-stranded-rome-six-weeks-new-passport-rules. "A #British girl was prevented from returning to her #school in the #UK for 6 weeks after a trip to see her #grandmother in #Italy because of the Home Office’s new rule requiring dual British #nationals to have a British #passport to get back into the #country." Yet more narrow-minded, #racist, #xenophobic #HomeOffice stupidity, for which that #ReformUK entryist into the #LabourParty, Shabana #Mahmood, is PERSONALLY responsible!

@elsua54 Passports. Yes - For many services increasingly that ID is needed or the top trump.

I appreciate if it doesn't effect you and can leave this part of the topic alone for now. I'm glad how you have it.

But for many a #passport does represent an identity or high lever of one, Biometrics now used for them and increasingly #banking etc linking the two even more.

If you don't have one you can't travel far and do many things sometimes act like they need it (there are some other ways).

"Scan your #passport to join our social network."

- #AralBalkan #Quote

(@elsua54 This quote helps to see when others are being socially 'weird' or excluded because we don't opt-in to many of these things and sub-things (or the standard etiquette of where you come from and work).

ID as 1st representation for my types don't work as we are trying to convey the root msg / primary cause of unfairness. The uncaring #system.

Niloofar* emptied her #emergency backpack onto the floor: a #passport, prescribed #medications, a toothbrush, a change of #clothes, and documents proving #ownership of her home.

Restaurant offers passport to Italy | Business News

UPPER KEYS — After celebrating the one-year anniver…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiangourmet #Catering #commerce #customer #gastronomy #gourmet #gourmetfood #ingredient #isiswright #Italia #Italian #italianfoodcompany #ItalianGourmet #Italiangourmetfood #italiano #italy #location #passport #Pizza #restaurant #theitalianfoodcompany #tonywright #Veal
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2720156/restaurant-offers-passport-to-italy-business-news/

Restaurant offers passport to Italy | Business News https://www.diningandcooking.com/2720156/restaurant-offers-passport-to-italy-business-news/ #Catering #commerce #customer #food #gastronomy #gourmet #GourmetFood #ingredient #IsisWright #Italia #Italian #ItalianFoodCompany #ItalianGourmet #ItalianGourmetFood #italiano #italy #location #passport #Pizza #restaurant #TheItalianFoodCompany #TonyWright #Veal

#Lisbon airport continues to be a shitshow I guess. We were in outbound passport control for an hour, which I guess is a lot less than it could have been. Airport staff were full-on yelling at people trying to cut through lines, stress levels were high.

I'd avoid Lisbon airport until they sort this #ees mess out. 🤷

As a Canadian I'm still baffled by outbound #passport control in #EU. Nothing about it seems efficient.

Brit and in Europe this summer? Leave an extra hour for #passport control. This was #Ljubljana today, a full 50 minute scrum.

#UK #brexitBenefit

Applications For 10-Year Malaysian Passport Now Available Via Walk-In Only #malaysia #news #passport #travel

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/397520/10-year-malaysian-passport-walk-in/

New Malaysian Passport with validity of up to 10 years to be available on 1 July #apps #digitallife #immigration #jabatanimigresenmalaysia #jim #malaysiapassport #news #passport #passportmalaysia #pma

https://soyacincau.com/2026/06/30/new-malaysia-passport-10-years-1-july/

Malaysia’s New Passport Officially Launches #malaysia #news #passport #travel

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/397266/malaysia-new-passport-launches/

Nearly a million #passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL

A journalist typing a few letters and numbers into a web browser pulled up the #passport of a young woman from Germany. Then a Spanish man’s passport. Then another man’s driver’s license. All of it sitting on the public internet with no password, no encryption, no access control whatsoever.
#privacy #security

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-internet-2026-51096/

Many of us know people who celebrate getting US or European #citizenship as a life milestone. Now meet the people who are excited to become official citizens of #Syria:

https://syriadirect.org/denied-for-decades-syrias-stateless-kurds-edge-towards-recognition/

#geography #Kurds #diplomacy #travel #passport #passports @geography @geopolitics

The Promise Passport commemorates the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. Made by Americans who live abroad.

@democratsabroad
#promise #passport #usa #250 #DemocratsAbroad

https://youtu.be/PqFcAGHSvn4

Real ID: Federal Mandate, National Card, or Something Worse?

The Real ID is now the law of the land, but it is not the law most Americans think it is, and the story of how it arrived at your local DMV is a twenty-year saga of congressional sleight-of-hand, serial postponement, and a quiet transformation of the American driver’s license into something it was never designed to be. The question everyone should be asking is not whether they need one. The question is what the Real ID actually represents in the architecture of American civic life, and whether the reassurances offered by the Department of Homeland Security hold up under any meaningful scrutiny.

What Is Real ID, Exactly?

Congress passed the Real ID Act in 2005 as a direct response to the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the federal government establish minimum standards for state-issued identification documents. The Act was attached as a rider to a military spending and tsunami relief appropriations bill, which meant it passed without standalone debate, without dedicated committee hearings on the identification provisions, and without meaningful input from the states that would be required to implement it. The law established that state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards would no longer be accepted for “official purposes” by federal agencies unless those cards met a new set of security and verification standards. Those official purposes include boarding commercial domestic flights, entering federal buildings such as courthouses and military installations, and accessing nuclear power plants.

The critical distinction that most people miss is this: Real ID is not a federal identification card. It is a federal standard imposed upon state-issued identification. Your Real ID is still issued by your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. It still looks like a driver’s license. It still has your state’s name on it. But it must now conform to requirements dictated by the Department of Homeland Security, and your personal data is now accessible through an interstate verification system called the State-to-State (S2S) Verification Service, administered by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. As of 2026, 45 jurisdictions participate in S2S. That is not a state database. That is a network.

Is Real ID the Same as a Passport?

No, and the gap between them is enormous. A United States passport is a sovereign identity document issued by the federal government through the Department of State. It certifies your citizenship. It is recognized internationally. It permits you to cross borders, enter foreign nations, and return to the United States. A passport is your proof of national identity in the eyes of every government on Earth that maintains diplomatic relations with the United States.

A Real ID does none of those things. It cannot be used for international travel. It cannot be used for border crossings into Canada or Mexico. It cannot be used for international sea cruise travel. It functions exclusively within the domestic sphere, and within that sphere, it serves only the narrow purposes defined by the Act: domestic air travel, federal facility access, and nuclear power plant entry. If you hold a valid United States passport or passport card, you already satisfy every requirement that Real ID addresses. The passport is, in every functional and legal sense, superior to the Real ID. The State Department’s own website confirms that both the passport book and passport card are Real ID compliant, meaning they satisfy the identification standard without requiring you to obtain a Real ID driver’s license at all.

This creates an interesting class dynamic. Americans who already hold passports, a document that requires its own application process and fee, have no operational need for a Real ID. Americans who do not hold passports and rely exclusively on their state driver’s license for identification are the ones most affected by the mandate. The burden of compliance, in other words, falls disproportionately on those who travel less, who have fewer resources, and who are least likely to have assembled the documentary chain (birth certificate, Social Security card, proof of residency) that the Real ID application demands.

Is Real ID Mandatory?

Here is where the federal government’s language becomes instructively slippery. Real ID is not mandatory in the sense that no law compels you to obtain one. You will not be arrested or fined for not having a Real ID. You can still obtain a standard, non-compliant driver’s license in every state, and that license remains valid for driving, voting, age verification, and all state-level purposes. Multiple state DMVs, including New York, California, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Ohio, explicitly state on their websites that obtaining a Real ID is voluntary.

But voluntary is doing extraordinary work in that sentence. As of May 7, 2025, the enforcement deadline that was delayed six times over twenty years, state-issued identification that is not Real ID compliant is no longer accepted at TSA airport security checkpoints. If you show up at an airport with a standard driver’s license and no passport, you are not getting on that plane through normal channels. You are, as of February 1, 2026, directed to a new system called TSA ConfirmID, where you will pay a $45 fee for a 10-day travel window, submit to biometric or biographic identity verification, and face processing delays of up to 30 minutes. That fee was originally proposed at $18 in late 2025 and was raised to $45 within weeks, with TSA officials citing higher-than-anticipated costs for the verification infrastructure.

So Real ID is voluntary the way that paying for electricity is voluntary. You are technically free not to do it, but the consequences of refusal are designed to make refusal progressively more expensive and inconvenient. The TSA’s own early data from February 2026 reports that 95 to 99 percent of travelers are now presenting Real IDs or other acceptable identification at checkpoints. The compliance rate surged after the ConfirmID fee was announced, which tells you everything about the nature of this particular “choice.”

Why Does This Matter?

The privacy and civil liberties concerns surrounding Real ID have been consistent for two decades, and they have come from across the political spectrum. The ACLU has argued since the Act’s passage that Real ID effectively creates a national identity card system by standardizing state identification under federal control and requiring machine-readable technology on every compliant card. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has warned that the interstate database network creates an irresistible target for identity thieves and facilitates government tracking of individuals. Jim Harper, a senior fellow of digital privacy and constitutional law at the American Enterprise Institute, has stated flatly that Real ID is a national ID system and that, historically, national ID systems have been tools of authoritarian control.

Twenty-one states initially passed legislation or resolutions opposing, or outright refusing to implement, the Real ID Act. Montana was among the last holdouts. The opposition was bipartisan: libertarians objected to federal overreach, privacy advocates objected to the data-sharing requirements, immigration-focused groups objected to the documentary burden, and state budget officials objected to the unfunded mandate. The federal government provided no funding for implementation. States absorbed billions in costs, and those costs were passed to residents through higher DMV fees, longer processing times, and the bureaucratic overhead of verifying birth certificates, Social Security numbers, and residential histories for every applicant.

The requirement that all Real ID cards include an unencrypted machine-readable zone is particularly troubling. That zone contains personal information that can be read by anyone with a barcode scanner. Every time the card is swiped or scanned, it leaves a digital record. The DHS insists that Real ID does not create a federal database of driver’s license information and that each state maintains its own records. That is technically true. It is also technically true that the S2S Verification Service allows states to electronically query each other’s databases, that 45 jurisdictions now participate in that network, and that the practical difference between a centralized federal database and a federated network of interlinked state databases accessible to federal agencies is a distinction without a meaningful difference to the person whose data is in the system.

The Twenty-Year Delay Tells Its Own Story

The original Real ID Act set an implementation target of 2008. Enforcement was delayed to 2009, then 2011, then 2013, then 2014, then 2017, then 2020, then 2021, then 2023, and finally to May 7, 2025, where it was further softened by a phased enforcement plan that extends to May 5, 2027. That is twenty years of delay. That is not a story about logistical complexity. That is a story about a law that the states did not want, that the public did not demand, and that the federal government lacked the political will to enforce until the question of enforcement became entangled with the security theater of post-pandemic air travel.

The fact that the TSA is now charging $45 to verify the identity of travelers who do not present a Real ID, rather than simply accepting other reasonable forms of state identification as it did for two decades, reveals the enforcement mechanism for what it is: a financial penalty dressed up as a user fee. The travelers who pay it are not security threats. They are people who did not get to the DMV in time, or who could not assemble the required documents, or who made a principled decision not to participate in a system they regard as an overreach. Charging them $45 per trip does not make air travel safer. It makes non-compliance expensive.

Where This Leaves Us

If you fly domestically and do not have a passport, you need a Real ID. That is the practical reality. If you have a valid United States passport or passport card, you do not need a Real ID for any federal purpose, and there is a reasonable argument that the passport remains the better document to hold: it is federally issued, internationally recognized, and does not feed your data into an interstate verification network administered by a nonprofit trade association of motor vehicle administrators.

The Real ID is not a federal ID card. It is something more subtle and, in many ways, more concerning: it is a federal standard that conscripts state identification systems into a national security apparatus, links them through shared databases, and imposes compliance through the denial of access to services that Americans have used freely for generations. It was passed without adequate debate, implemented without federal funding, delayed for twenty years because of legitimate and widespread opposition, and is now being enforced through a fee structure that penalizes the Americans least equipped to navigate the bureaucratic requirements of compliance.

That is not security. That is architecture. And the architecture, once built, rarely gets torn down. It only gets expanded.

Stop scanning us! #FacialRecognition

Home Secretary Mahmood, revealed her chilling vision of building a “panopticon” where “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”

Your #passport photo now being searched by police, even if you have done nothing wrong

#Driving licence photos are next

If we don’t set clear limits now, our rights to #privacy, #FreeSpeech, #protest & access to information are at risk

Sign:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-scanning-us-all-with-facial-recognition

#UK #ToxicLabour #authoritarian #BigBrother #Orwellian

MyNIISe and MyDigital ID not compulsory to clear immigration, autogate still accepts physical passport #apps #digitallife #featured #immigration #klia #myborderpass #myniise #news #passport #travel

https://soyacincau.com/2026/01/14/myniise-and-mydigital-id-not-compulsory-to-clear-immigration-autogate-still-accepts-physical-passport/

MyNIISe and MyDigital ID not compulsory to clear immigration, autogate still accepts physical passport #apps #digitallife #featured #immigration #klia #myborderpass #myniise #news #passport #travel

https://soyacincau.com/2026/01/14/myniise-and-mydigital-id-not-compulsory-to-clear-immigration-autogate-still-accepts-physical-passport/

MyNIISe and MyDigital ID not compulsory to clear immigration, autogate still accepts physical passport #apps #digitallife #featured #immigration #klia #myborderpass #myniise #news #passport #travel

https://soyacincau.com/2026/01/14/myniise-and-mydigital-id-not-compulsory-to-clear-immigration-autogate-still-accepts-physical-passport/

MyNIISe and MyDigital ID not compulsory to clear immigration, autogate still accepts physical passport #apps #digitallife #featured #immigration #klia #myborderpass #myniise #news #passport #travel

https://soyacincau.com/2026/01/14/myniise-and-mydigital-id-not-compulsory-to-clear-immigration-autogate-still-accepts-physical-passport/

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs

https://www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis/

#HackerNews #CBP #Enforces #Binary #Sex #Codes #and #Enhanced #US #Passport #Validation #in #APIs #CBP #USPassport #APIs #BinarySexCodes #ImmigrationPolicy

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs

https://www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis/

#HackerNews #CBP #Enforces #Binary #Sex #Codes #and #Enhanced #US #Passport #Validation #in #APIs #CBP #USPassport #APIs #BinarySexCodes #ImmigrationPolicy

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs

https://www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis/

#HackerNews #CBP #Enforces #Binary #Sex #Codes #and #Enhanced #US #Passport #Validation #in #APIs #CBP #USPassport #APIs #BinarySexCodes #ImmigrationPolicy

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs

https://www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis/

#HackerNews #CBP #Enforces #Binary #Sex #Codes #and #Enhanced #US #Passport #Validation #in #APIs #CBP #USPassport #APIs #BinarySexCodes #ImmigrationPolicy

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs

https://www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis/

#HackerNews #CBP #Enforces #Binary #Sex #Codes #and #Enhanced #US #Passport #Validation #in #APIs #CBP #USPassport #APIs #BinarySexCodes #ImmigrationPolicy

This is cool if you travel.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/10/ios-26-passport-wallet-identity-verification/

#apple #ios #passport #realid #travel

On Hold

I am trying to renew my passport before I have to fly to Florida this summer. I’ve been on hold with their help line for 10 minutes. I have a meeting 70 minutes from now. Do you think I will still be on hold when the meeting starts?

Something tells me I will be. Government efficiency and all that crap, right?

I was just about to publish this when my call was forwarded to a voicemail and hung up. Oh good. I guess I can start that on-hold clock again.

Yippee.

#doge #efficiency #government #hangUp #onHold #papersPlease #passport #voiceMail

SOSmitmensch-Verein mit der "Pass Egal Wahl" bei der Sozial Marie nominiert, des Projekt-Träger: Unruhe Privatstiftung

https://www.sozialmarie.org/de/projects/9661

#vote #voting #stimmen #wahl #wahlen #nominee #innovation #school #schools #schule #schulen #bildung #reisepass #passport #personalausweis #dokument #heimat #alle #project #projects #initiieren #verein #vereine #ehrenamt #ehrenamtlich #idee #umsetzung #zeit #zweck #planung #lehren #lernen #schüler #lehrer #job #berufung #beruf #team #teams #investition

passport please!

@FotoVorschlag eis von nahem

#fotovorschlag #mockfotos #photography #passport #privilegiert #brd #reisepass #travel #festung #germany

Mein heutiger #geniatip sind die oft versteckten Urkundenscans in #Ancestry

#Hilfreich sind z.B. die "All #US #Passport #Application 1795-1925", eine #Sammlung von #Ausweis - Anträgen aus #california #hawaii #illinois #louisiana #newyork #philippines #puertorico und #washington - ideal um #Personendaten von #auswanderer zu finden.

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1174/#aboutSection

#Genealogie #Genealogy #ahnenforschung #Familienforschung #usa

MyBorderPass QR: How to clear immigration at KLIA in less than 10 seconds #digitallife #featured #immigration #immigrationclearance #klia #klia2 #malaysiapassport #myborderpass #myborderpassqr #news #passport #transport #travel

https://soyacincau.com/2025/01/05/myborderpass-qr-klia-how-to-clear-immigration-with-smartphone/

MyBorderPass QR: How to clear immigration at KLIA in less than 10 seconds #digitallife #featured #immigration #immigrationclearance #klia #klia2 #malaysiapassport #myborderpass #myborderpassqr #news #passport #transport #travel

https://soyacincau.com/2025/01/05/myborderpass-qr-klia-how-to-clear-immigration-with-smartphone/

So I'm glad I didn't pay for expedited service for my passport because one wedding moved last minute like an hour drive away and the other one was called off lmao
Now I can just save up to actually move abroad.
#US #Passport #Travel #DestinationWedding