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Originally Posted by bevdeforges
Not in the US they don't. An amazingly small proportion of Americans has passports!
Cheers,
Bev
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Bev is right. I dont have anymore, other than my brother no one else in my family has ever had one. I can only think of a handful of people that I know that actually have one. I guess part of it is the size of the country, there isn't much need to leave it, and the two countries adjoining us, until recently, didn't require one, so there was very little need for one.
As for proving my citizenship, about all I've got and what most people are going to have is a drivers license. Sure it can be forged but so can most any document when you come down to it. But we have to draw the line somewhere as to what constitutes proof or else the police will be so involved in trying to verify things and the people will be so involved in trying top prove things that everyone will be frustrated. And it would be a tremendous waste of time if the police had to spend an hour on every person that they stopped.
In the end it will come down to the judgment of the police doing the checking. If someone produces an acceptable document and everything looks in order then they should let them go, unless there is some suspicion that things may not be as they seem.