Originally Posted by
kaukau
That has got to be the definition of irony, if true: An expired passport is accepted by the TSA for applying to work for them, but is not accepted by them as a valid ID to fly?
Is that correct? If it is, this world is nuts!
I will go you a step further. My daughter applied for both a new passport and a Social Security number in the American Consulate in Haifa.
Her old passport was sufficient proof of identification to get her a new passport.
It was not sufficient to get her the Social Security card because it had expired..
Once her new passport arrived, it was considered valid to get her a Social Security card.
(Follow that logic? A passport issued on the basis of an expired passport is valid ID but the expired passport itself is not. That is like saying that we won't take John's word that he speaks French, but if Bill tells us that John said he speaks French we will accept that John speaks it.)