Can You Prove Your Citizenship?

[jyl]

I am curious how many of us could prove our citizenship, if required to produce documents to do so. Hence this poll.

Please note that drivers' license, credit cards, evidence of your address, etc do not prove you are a US citizen.

Required documents are a US Passport, an original US birth certificate, Certificate of Naturalization, Certificate of Citizenship, or a official certified copy of a US birth certificate (not merely a photocopy).

[Jims5543]

Up until a year ago I was using an actual birth certificate and drivers license to travel to and from the Bahamas. By years end you have to have a Passport to leave the USA.

Wife, Kids and I have a passport now.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

have a passport and certified copy of my birth certificate

Soy un ciudadano americano, oficial de la migra

[RoninLB]

My diction pins me in 1sec.

although I am loaded with documents.


Airport Immigration sometimes wants you to say something all locals should know about like "What did you think of that ball game?" coming inbound.

Passport is key for ID.

[red-beard]

I keep passport with me 24/7. Birth cert I have both the orignal and certified copies at home

Wife: Nat Cert and Passport.

Sisters: Passports (1 Husband passport, I think he is an ET alien)

Mom and Dad: Passports

[livi]

Well John, you do have that fourth option.... and I felt obligated to vote.

[jriera]

All of us have passports (even our 5 years old got the passport renewed already). Wife and I have certified copies of the Naturalization Certificates at home with the originals (along with kids birth certificates) in a safe box.

I carry the passport in my computer bag, I'm used to have to travel in a very short notice.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I can, but then again I suppose I could always pretend I'm illegal and that way get around having to pay taxes, get free health care and get to drive without the burden of carrying insurance. Talk about incentives!

[id10t]

Notarized copy of my birth certificate and my FAL... which is shown will depend on who is saying "papers please"

[nostatic]

which name?

[Aurel]

Buzz off, I have a Swiss passport, a french birth certificate, and US green card. None of which I carry with me.

Aurel

[Rikao4]

It's expired now..but I retained my 'red' passport
Rika

[scottmandue]

Don't have a passport and not sure where my birth certificate is... how about if I just show you my mortgage paperwork?

Or my Tax returns?

[dd74]

Will bleeding my American red blood legitamize me?

[Scooter]

I have a voter's registration card. It works to get into Canada and into the US. They allow it because you have to be a US citizen to vote, therefore a registration card is proof of citizenship.

[mikester]

"papers please."

[pwd72s]

Originally posted by Scooter
I have a voter's registration card. It works to get into Canada and into the US. They allow it because you have to be a US citizen to vote, therefore a registration card is proof of citizenship.

I wouldn't guarantee that in Oregon. It is one of 7 states to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Oregon also has a "vote by mail" system. ALL elections are mail in ballots, voting booths no longer exist here. With EVERY driver's license issued, a voter's registration card is given. Fill it out, mail it in, and you'll begin getting ballots in the mail. Hey, if you're already in the country illegally, you're going to worry about a little check box on a postage paid return postcard that asks if you're a citizen? Yet our secretary of state, a partisan Democrat says no election fraud has been found here. Hmmmm. It might help if he looked for some, don't you think?

[Scooter]

Originally posted by pwd72s
I wouldn't guarantee that in Oregon. It is one of 7 states to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Oregon also has a "vote by mail" system. ALL elections are mail in ballots, voting booths no longer exist here. With EVERY driver's license issued, a voter's registration card is given. Fill it out, mail it in, and you'll begin getting ballots in the mail. Hey, if you're already in the country illegally, you're going to worry about a little check box on a postage paid return postcard that asks if you're a citizen? Yet our secretary of state, a partisan Democrat says no election fraud has been found here. Hmmmm. It might help if he looked for some, don't you think?

I'm not guaranteeing anything. All I know is that I was able to get into and out of Canada with a voter registration card. I'm also not saying it is a perfect science. I never even showed proof of citizenship when I registered to vote.

[imcarthur]

Passports.

I always travel into the US on my US Passport & I always leave on my Canadian. I never get questioned. I assume they have connected the dots at some point. I also have a new Canpass which is a retina scan ID to bypass Canadian immigration.

Ian

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by nostatic
which name?

Which name and which country? Some of us have a choice!