#passports — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #passports, aggregated by home.social.
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Canada 🇨🇦 now allows passport renewals online for those that expire within 6 months
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-passport-renewal-canada-9.7287458
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Le Canada 🇨🇦 permet désormais les renouvellements de passeports en ligne pour ceux qui expirent dans les 6 moishttps://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2272097/demande-passeports-renouvellement-site-web
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@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.
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UK are NOT ranked sixth if there are 32 other countries above it.
(And I really must get my Latvian passport sorted out)
#passports #travel #EU #UKPol
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Passing the Ports
I’ve been thinking for some time whether to renew my (expired) British passport, and finally decided to do so. No longer being resident in the UK I thought this would require a trip to the Embassy in Dublin, but that isn’t the case these days. One has to apply online, including supplying a digital photograph, send the old passport off by courier, then wait for the new one to arrive (by courier).
One problem with doing this is that the format of digital picture required for a British passport is not the same as for an Irish one, so most of the automatic machines (“Photo-Me”, etc) in Ireland are no use. I was able to take advantage of a recent trip to London, however, by using such a machine in Paddington station. I had plenty of time for that given the train delays. I got a few printed photos at the same time, in case I need them, but all you need for the passport is a photo code. The images are stored until used in the passport application.
And so it came to pass that today I completed the online application, paid the fees, and went to the local Post Office to send the old one to HM Passport Office. Now I have to wait and see how long it takes for my new passport to arrive. About a month, they say. We’ll see.
The new one will be dark-blue or black, like the very first one I ever had (left). That one was issued in 1986 and expired in 1996. I leave it as an exercise the reader to calculate how many I have had since then!
Whatever its design it will not allow me the right to live, work and retire freely within the European Union, so it will be of considerable less value than my Irish one.
I was for a time under the impression that having a British passport would make it easier should I ever want to enter the UK from somewhere other than Ireland, but I don’t think this is true. Unlike other EU citizens, according to the provisions of the Common Travel Area (CTA), Irish citizens do not require an ETA to enter the UK. They just need a valid Irish passport. Still, I think it will be useful to have a spare and I’m now used to having multiple identities!
I recently travelled to the UK and back by ferry. That journey being within the CTA a passport is not strictly required – other forms of photo-ID are acceptable – but I took mine anyway, as I don’t have a driver’s licence and we don’t have official government-issued ID cards in Ireland so I wasn’t sure whether they would accept any of the cards I have with my picture on it (e.g. my Maynooth staff card). As it happened the ID checks were very cursory. When I checked in at Dublin Ferry Port, the assitant there only wanted my ticket number and didn’t ask to see my ID at all. It was the same coming back from Holyhead. On arrival at Holyhead, there was a border post staffed by several officers, but they waved most passengers through (including me). On returning to Dublin the check was even more perfunctory: there was just one guy and he seemed more interested in welcoming everyone to Dublin than looking at any documents.
The CTA means that if you fly from Dublin to the UK you generally arrive at a place in the airport dedicated to such passengers. This is particularly convenient flying to Heathrow Terminal 2: on arrival you just walk through the Baggage Reclaim and out into the airport without passing any checks. You still need a passport, though, as airlines require this form of identification and it is scrutinized when you check in and when you board the plane. The only airport I know of that doesn’t have a simplified arrival system for CTA passengers is Dublin. They have no separate facilities, so you have to go through passport control with all the other passengers. That can be a bit inconvenient if lots of flights have arrived at the same time. I suppose the people who run Dublin Airport do not think it’s worth having a CTA arrivals facility.
#Dublin #ferries #Holyhead #passports #photoID #Travel -
Aviation industry slams EU border checks as millions face holiday misery
Wednesday 01 July 2026 2:54 pm (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images) New EU rules have left Brits…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Airlines #aviation #Business #ees #EU #EuropeanUnion #Greece #Immigration #passports #UK #UnitedKingdom #UrsulavonderLeyen
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Travel Advice for Holidaymakers Visiting EU Countries
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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.
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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
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One Million Passports Leaked Online
A database of almost a million passports from around the world was leaked online.
Note what happened. A high-v... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/one-million-passports-leaked-online.html -
@dyniec @yournameisinvalid In fairness to the airline: They might request your name like it included in the machine-readable zone where non-ASCII characters are transcribed into A-Z.
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Dana Zzyym finally received their passport, complete with an X gender marker, on Oct. 27, 2021.
They received their passport six years after filing their lawsuit, and seven years after initially applying for their passport.
Dana almost cried opening their mail after receiving their hard-fought passport.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-fight-for-accurate-identity.html
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#Intersex #Nonbinary #US #USA #LGBTQ #LGBT #Queer #Passports #Trans #Transgender
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In June 2021, The Biden administration announced new passport gender-marker policies that made it easier for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans to receive passports that match their gender identities.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2021/10/state-department-updates-passport.html
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#LGBTQ #Intersex #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #US #USA #Passports #LGBT #Queer #Gender
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Dana’s lawsuit wasn’t the only major challenge to the State Department’s passport gender-marker policies.
In 2019, a transgender man sued the State Department to overturn its requirement that transgender applicants present a doctor’s certification to receive a passport that matches their gender identity.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2021/10/transgender-man-challenges-us-passport.html
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The circuit court ruled it couldn’t tell whether the State Department would have enacted its binary gender-marker policy if it realized some of its justifications for the policy were unsupported.
The court sent the case back to Judge Jackson and instructed him to order the State Department to reconsider Dana’s passport application.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2020/08/intersex-passport-case-drags-on.html
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#Intersex #LGBT #LGBTQ #Queer #Passports #US #USA #Nonbinary
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In 2018, a federal judge ordered the U.S. State Department to issue a passport to Dana Zzyym, an intersex American citizen who doesn’t identify as either male or female.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2018/11/judge-orders-state-department-to-issue.html
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#Intersex #LGBTQ #LGBT #Queer #Nonbinary #Passports #US #USA
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In 2015, an Intersex veteran sued the US State Department for the right to be identified with an “X" on their passport, which would identify them as neither male nor female.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2018/04/intersex-veteran-challenges-passport.html
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Apparently get a non-US passport any way you can.
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#SERBIA GIVES AWAY #PASSPORTS TO RUSSIANS: The Serbian government continues to fast-track citizenships for #Russians, despite caution from the #EU, according to an investigation done by Radio Free Europe. https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-passports-citizenship-sanctioned-russians/33778410.html
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"Typing a few letters and numbers into my web browser, I find myself gaping at the identity documents of complete strangers. The passport of a young woman from Germany. The passport of a man from Spain with glasses resting on his head. The front and back of another man’s driver’s license, a stereotypically goofy expression on his face.
They were all sitting unprotected at public URLs, with no password or access control of any sort. If I sent you a link, you could have looked at someone’s passport.
“We have to do something about it as fast as possible, because people will find this and resell it. It will do damage,” Sammy Azdoufal told me in May.
Azdoufal is the security researcher who used Claude Code to help discover that every DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaner and a million baby monitors and security cameras were embarrassingly easy to hack. This time, he says he discovered over 985,000 photo IDs sitting on the public internet for any half-decent hacker to steal.
If you’ve visited a cannabis club in Spain, Azdoufal says, chances are your photo ID was among them — and possibly your phone number, address, your favorite strains of cannabis, and how much you consumed each month while there. Azdoufal says celebrities are in the database, too, and visitors from all over the world, including 30,000 from the United States. “They have famous people,” says Azdoufal. “People who don’t want everyone to know they smoke weed.”"
https://www.theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal
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PassPorts Please! China expands travel restrictions on AI researchers.
Top AI engineers and researchers are being asked to surrender their passports to their employers. China's government has classified frontier AI as a strategic national asset. https://thenextweb.com/news/china-expands-travel-curbs-private-ai-talent
This is similar to what we will see in the Quantum industry as detailed in this TechAptitude post. https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/quantum-technologies-and-geo-politics?r=vn8b8
#AI #China #DeepSeek #ExitBans #AITalent #TechAptitude #Quantum #QuantumComputing #TravelBans #Passports #AIResearchers #LLMs #FrontierAI
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Report says #M23 rebel govt in east #DRCongo charges US$50-500 for "entry visas" (very steep by world standards!), and at first wanted to also stamp #passports.
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/05/18/m23-tax-drive-dr-congo-squeeze-aid-groups
#travel #defacto #geography #geopolitics #independence #rebelgovernance @geography @geopolitics @politicalscience #EastAfrica #Africa #Congo #Rwanda
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Last year, Trump signed an executive order preventing transgender, nonbinary, and Intersex Americans from receiving identity documents from the federal government, including passports, that accurately reflect their gender identity.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-endless-series-of-outrages.html
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#Trump #News #Politics #LGBT #LGBTQ #Passports #US #USA #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Intersex
