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Originally Posted by Arizona_928
I don’t trust the tsa database. Watching a recently married pregnant chick become flagged and not allowed through security because her picture in the database not matching the ID… wait, i thought they purged the pictures after they’re taken?… hmm
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Coming back from Mexico with our 16yo daughter and her friend a few years ago, we got similarly hung up.
Her passport was already nearly 5 years old so the computer rejected the picture on her passport of an 11yo child as a match for the young woman she now was.
We got sent to a room waiting for a supervisor’s review. It went up the chain of uniforms until the head guy in a suit was called over. His solution was to ask her if she had any photos on her phone from when she was 11. Really? Asking a modern day, attractive young woman if she has any selfies?
She scrolled through her phone and showed some pics from that time frame. He checked the date stamp and signed off on her entry.
Of course we had missed our connecting flight but that was just one of the many obstacles thrown at us on that trip.
It was the only time I’d bought trip insurance and good thing too. I filed a $2500 claim on that one.