# How would you prove you're a citizen?

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**Created:** [September 19, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-prove-youre-a-citizen/1007450 "2024-09-19T01:46:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-prove-youre-a-citizen/1007450/15 "2024-09-19T03:32:09Z")

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For retirees, who count as the sponsor for a dependent family, a non-citizen would also apparently have a blue bar on their Next Gen ID card.

[![](https://www.cac.mil/portals/53/Images/cac_mil_sponsor%20card%20image_FA.png?ver=2020-07-27-141031-267) ](https://www.cac.mil/portals/53/Images/cac_mil_sponsor%20card%20image_FA.png?ver=2020-07-27-141031-267)

Blue Bar: Non-U.S. Citizen Sponsors _ **and their Dependents** _

The complication for a dependent is that their own citizenship status doesn’t matter for their card; even a citizen dependent of a non-citizen sponsor would have a blue bar on their dependent ID card. (I think.) So not helpful in this context.

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