[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Quoting John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > It's of little interest to citizens of other foreign countries; > > for them, passports are already required. I'm not sure whether > > my resident alien card (aka green card) is sufficient; I always > > use my passport, just to be sure. > > Back when I had a green card, it usually was sufficient. > However, that was way before September 2001 ... Perhaps some things have > already changed in that area. > I personally do not see what is the big outcry about passports. You intend to > vote, you register to vote. You intend to drive a vehicle, you get a driver's > licence. You intend to travel to another country, you get a passport.
Well for one thing a passport now costs about $90. makes it difficult on the poor folk on the borders. I think it would be outrageous to require it at the Canadian orMexican border ann > Acquiring the appropriate documents to do certain things has been a fact of > life, worldwide, for a very long time now -- and passports in particular are > nothing new. > Looks like they're planning to access some frequent-traveller alternate IDs > at the land borders in lieu of passports, anyway. > (OnT content: You can take the passport picture with a Pentax. I've done 'em > for all my immediate family and a friend or two.) > > ERNR
