Super Secure Driver License for Crossing Border

[Arizona Knight Wolf]

They don't stamp your passport so you don't have to worry about your wives finding out. All they do is swipe it, ask you the usual questions, and let you through.

 

[P3RF3CTLY FLAW3D]

Let's face it...no one wants to carry their birth certificate around with them in Mexico or anywhere else for that matter. Now if you were flying or really traveling, people would keep it in a folder or envelope for their trip. I look for that to never be required to cross the border regardless of what is being said now. Obviously the new passport or passcard law will not take effect as scheduled at the end of January.

I will be interested to see how this unfolds.

 

[F u c k Y o u.]

I have a passport. I'll also get a PASSCARD when they become available.

BTW, the PASSCARD is supposed to cost less than a passport. Also it is supposed to be wallet size; for me that makes it a winner.

There are guys who worry their wifes will learn of their TJ mongering through the frequent use of their passport. The PASSCARD seems like a good solution to this problem.

 

[zerojohnnyx]

Bohemian wrote:

The passport processing time was overloaded and delayed last summer, but since then they hired more people and cleared the back log. As of at least last month they were up to date and processing passports within four to six weeks for regular service, and if you wanted to pay more you could have it in as little as three weeks.

I know someebody who just applied for a passport three weeks ago and they gave her the worst scenario of Mid January.

Now that's not to say they get backed up again with everybody wanting to go to Mexico.

 

[Pompal 09.]

Fireballs, Thanks for researching further, I am also of the same conclusion that one would need a valid driver license + Birth certificate or a U.S Passport come Jan 31. I heard for passport is also delayed due to the long processing time and overload on the system. So in all probability they might delay implementation of the rule to beyound Jan 31.

 

[breespectacular[:]

I was reading about that today super secure driving licenses, enhanced driver’s licenses, and long range RFID technology that meet the REAL ID or WHTI requirements in 2008.

It looks like a few states want to test it out on a pilot test basis, but what I'm seeing is all this talk is directed at the Canadian border, as I have yet to read anything about the Mexican border?( should work in Mexico too?) Crossing the Canadian border doesn't seem to be an issue with most Americans, just like Canadian trucks can drive anywhere they want in the US. But once you start talking Mexico, it's a whole new ball game. It's as everybody believes that Terrorist, Columbian drug lords, and illegal immigrants only come in through the southern border on the Mexican/US side?

I think they just avoid talking about Mexico because they know people will object to it. The technology looks promising but it's not without it's share of critics. They say at least long range RFID is meant to track packages in a warehouse not people. So this also brings up 'big brother' issues. some say there is no security methods to prevent anyone from re-programing the cards, and that it is incompatible to the current technology in the new e-passports.

so I think the pilot problems will happen, but it's still a long way off that before we start using enhanced driver’s licenses in California. ( I could hear them screaming now illegal Mexican immigration)

I also haven't heard anything about the new cheaper 'PASSCARDS' and don't believe they would be popular, because you just might as well pay $100 dollars for a passport, but I'm still waiting to hear something about them, and not something from a old website a year old.

The only thing we know for sure maybe is this coming January 31, 2008, you can't cross over into Tijuana and back without at least a drivers license( not the enhanced ones) and a Birth certificate( not a cheap copy either) You still do not need a passport this coming new year in 2008 at least half the year. So remember starting this Jan 31, you only need a birth certificate and your regular drivers license.

Then they say this coming 'SUMMER" some time in the summer you'll also need a valid passport or other documents as determined by Homeland Security. But the say isn't exact, it only said in some time in the SUMMER of 2008. Many peole including myself believe they will delay it due to a number of reasons, and in fact just read something from a congresswomen who deals with this issue, is she wants it delayed to fall, as the summer months are too busy, and if I recall she wants the passport requirements delayed to at least 2009?

 

[Lucy H]

Hi
It seems some states have agreed to have super secure driving license which apparently can also be used as identification for crossing Canadian and Mexican borders instead of the passport.

Following is an extract and the link from CNN website follows

It could be used as a license, as proof of citizenship and as a passport-like document valid for travel in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/27/immigrant.licenses.ap/index.html