Does the TSA accept foreign driver licences?
Jan 26, 2008 | 10:52 pm
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Of course you cn always get one of these:
http://www.freebooter.com/camouflage-passports.asp
//Goes off to look for his Legoland Driver's License...
http://www.freebooter.com/camouflage-passports.asp
//Goes off to look for his Legoland Driver's License...
Jan 27, 2008 | 3:47 am
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Jan 27, 2008 | 3:51 am
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It worked, no thumbing through pages, no secondary, not even a second look.
Jan 27, 2008 | 4:16 am
#34
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Only US citizens may use US drivers licenses. Now if I get one from Ontario Canada, or Australia(where my wife originates), I will accept it because I know what they look like. Everyone else needs to show a passport. No i don't check if everyone with American drivers licenses are American citizens. It also keeps someone out of selectee status if they have a "BAD" passport, but has a "good" American drivers license.
On an unrelated note, anyone know of a way to maximize the miles earned for flying to Guantanamo Bay? Just curious...
Jan 27, 2008 | 8:30 pm
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Not sure about miles, but I heard food and board are free.
Jan 27, 2008 | 9:28 pm
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It was quite the popular request in Miami from what I hear -- including back when there were more South American countries good for the visa waiver program to enter the US.
Jan 28, 2008 | 6:19 am
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So you know what a drivers license from VIC or WA looks like? Current ones/older ones? How about NSW, SA .. or QLD or NT?
Jan 28, 2008 | 6:30 am
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I tried something new yesterday at SJU and MIA... put paper clips in my passport so the only page that could be accessed without removing the paper clips would be my picture page. I used the oversized ones, put in carefully so as to not damage any pages/visas. One paper clip for every 15 pages, overlapping one page each time.
It worked, no thumbing through pages, no secondary, not even a second look.
It worked, no thumbing through pages, no secondary, not even a second look.
Too often a TSA screener will start flipping through the pages looking for the cover and then starts looking at the stamps. I've had other TSO's sit and flip through all of the stamps and one even remarked, "Gee, what are those postage stamp looking things in your passport?" ....
A small paperclip it is...
Jan 28, 2008 | 8:04 am
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Might be a good idea- I was sent to the secondary screening once when the TSA bloke at PHX flipping through my passport found one of those stamps with "something Arabish (sic)" in it (visa got at CAI immigration). Was given a thorough search, asked lots of questions about what I do, why I am in the US and why I went to an Arab country.
Jan 28, 2008 | 9:25 am
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Jan 28, 2008 | 9:55 am
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I am not sure if anyone knows whether I can use my Australian licence to pass through the TSA check point or not.
The reason is that my passport is deteriorating from being over handled (both by immigration officials and by TSA) and also I don't like the way the id checkers like to flick through the passport to see where you have been - for me it is always a problem because some of the visas invariably mean I get a secondary.
I'd be grateful for any insight or experiences.
The reason is that my passport is deteriorating from being over handled (both by immigration officials and by TSA) and also I don't like the way the id checkers like to flick through the passport to see where you have been - for me it is always a problem because some of the visas invariably mean I get a secondary.
I'd be grateful for any insight or experiences.
Jan 28, 2008 | 10:28 am
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For some odd reason, most americans think foreign visitors cannot get USDL's. The first thing I do whenever a friend/relative/etc comes to visit is send them down to DPS/DMV with the "required" documents. Guess what comes in the mail a couple of weeks later?
Jan 28, 2008 | 11:30 am
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One more tiny hole in the old security blanket, eh?
For some odd reason, most americans think foreign visitors cannot get USDL's. The first thing I do whenever a friend/relative/etc comes to visit is send them down to DPS/DMV with the "required" documents. Guess what comes in the mail a couple of weeks later?
For some odd reason, most americans think foreign visitors cannot get USDL's. The first thing I do whenever a friend/relative/etc comes to visit is send them down to DPS/DMV with the "required" documents. Guess what comes in the mail a couple of weeks later?
I thought you needed a US social security # and some other stuff to get a drivers license?
PM me if you would rather not post it publicly....would be appreciated.
Jan 28, 2008 | 11:52 am
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Although they just recently changed the rules (in the last few days, I think), I got my Michigan DL last year before I had a SSN. All I needed was my foreign passport, and a couple of other documents (which could be a DL from another country, birth certificate, US immigrant or non-immigrant Visa, marriage license, School ID, etc).