Passports are now not valid for TSA security for domestic flights?
Feb 27, 2012, 11:24 pm
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The stupidity and incompetence at TSA never ceases to amaze, and always good for a laugh.
A passport is actually a better form of ID than a state DL, the former requires more vetting and is harder to forge.
If this happened to me I'd immediately request a supervisor and tell them to look at the official rules posted on the website.
A passport is actually a better form of ID than a state DL, the former requires more vetting and is harder to forge.
If this happened to me I'd immediately request a supervisor and tell them to look at the official rules posted on the website.
Feb 28, 2012, 7:00 am
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The stupidity and incompetence at TSA never ceases to amaze, and always good for a laugh.
A passport is actually a better form of ID than a state DL, the former requires more vetting and is harder to forge.
If this happened to me I'd immediately request a supervisor and tell them to look at the official rules posted on the website.
A passport is actually a better form of ID than a state DL, the former requires more vetting and is harder to forge.
If this happened to me I'd immediately request a supervisor and tell them to look at the official rules posted on the website.
Dan
Feb 28, 2012, 7:06 am
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In the past when I have asked TSA employees to check their employers websites with regards to rules/regs, I have been told that those rules (published on their employers website) are there as a suggestion/example and that each airport has their own authority to modify those rules/regs as needed to keep us safe.
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It's too bad that TSA isn't open and honest enough to make that clear on their website. They just don't seem to understand that if their employees operated to a standard and pax knew what to expect, pax would be better prepared and happier and TSOs would find themselves working in a less stressful environment. Win-win.
Feb 28, 2012, 12:51 pm
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In the past when I have asked TSA employees to check their employers websites with regards to rules/regs, I have been told that those rules (published on their employers website) are there as a suggestion/example and that each airport has their own authority to modify those rules/regs as needed to keep us safe.
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Feb 29, 2012, 12:17 am
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I don't think there is any law stopping them. If you hand someone your passport, they can look through it. If you use your passport at a bar to buy a drink, the bartender can look through it as well.
Feb 29, 2012, 6:22 am
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Quite true. However, the bartender will not use anything they see to prevent your buying a drink. The TSO may make your screening more difficult based on what they find.
Feb 29, 2012, 7:00 am
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My passport is the only ID that matches the name on my airline ticket. So if they want other ID they need to accept that it won't match.
Feb 29, 2012, 8:18 am
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Mar 6, 2012, 6:08 pm
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interesting twist to the OP's question. I was traveling from MFE on a domestic flight and the border control officer told me my TWIC card wouldn't work because it didn't show citizenship!
Yes, flying domestic they wanted proof of citizenship!!
Yes, flying domestic they wanted proof of citizenship!!
Mar 9, 2012, 12:56 pm
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Uh... not sure what you mean by "border control officer".
Mar 9, 2012, 3:07 pm
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Both the US Border Patrol and the CBP put officers/agents near the ID check booth at US airports near the north and south US borders.
FOr example, the CBP had an agent standing right next to the ID checker at ELP a few weeks and last January on my transit. there are stories of many others. I have also seen them at BUF. They then tend pull over people who present foreign passports and the like for additional "questions".
You can also be stopped at the US internal checkpoints on all main roads coming north of the US-Mexican border for a similar situation, though the road checks are nearly always manned.
FOr example, the CBP had an agent standing right next to the ID checker at ELP a few weeks and last January on my transit. there are stories of many others. I have also seen them at BUF. They then tend pull over people who present foreign passports and the like for additional "questions".
You can also be stopped at the US internal checkpoints on all main roads coming north of the US-Mexican border for a similar situation, though the road checks are nearly always manned.