I thought that was not the case anymore. Looking it up now all I see are mentions of passports. I know a passport card can also be used. I just renewed my passport and put out the couple of extra bucks to get the card too.
My wife and I just last week received shot #4 and they said that they weren’t doing cards anymore. I do have images of my 1 through 3 cards on my phone. Never had to show to anyone though.
Yeah. But now they can ban you from flying on that airline.
Yep, which is why the no-fly list is rather useless. But they shouldn’t have stopped him from flying, just taken aside for further checking. I believe he was only delayed. It too him, a US Senator three weeks to be taken off the list- imagine how long it would take one of us.
In the UK, it is a simple process to “semi-officially” change your name(s) by Deed Poll and this may suffice for most purposes, including bank accounts.
If you want a passport in your new name, you have to put it on public record by ‘enrolling’ it at the Royal Courts of Justice. This currently costs £42.44
Should have clarified since the comment was about infants, this is for children only.
Back then the list didn’t include date of birth. Now it does.
In fact, a British man once changed his name by deed poll and ordered a new passport because it was cheaper than having the name on his airline tickets corrected:
Yes, if they plan to travel outside of their country.
Even in 1967 we had to get a passport for our newborn son when we were returning home when he was 6 weeks old and born in Switzerland while I was on leave. Film being what is was, they needed flood lights for the photo and we just couldn’t get a 2 week old to keep his eyes open. Although the law required open eyes, the people at the consulate issued the passport with no questions. In those days you could get a passport in a day. In fact, I once got one in 15 minutes. It was slow at the US consulate in Montreal and the consul himself served us. He said to come back the next day and then said, "Wait, do you have 15 minutes to spare. My wife and I did and 15 minutes later we had two shiny new passports. That was in 1975. Couldn’t happen today.
FWIW, I just got my new one. From the time went down to the time I got it was 11 weeks. That’s what the told me it was running these days.
I mailed my renewal package in on September 8th, and just received it on October 28th, so seven weeks for me. Seems that the process is getting back to normal.
Back in 1998 the Mrs. and I travelled to Toronto for a medical conference, and brought our birth certificates along. They were never asked for, we just got waved thru at the border after showing our drivers licenses.
BUT at the conference, the keynote speaker was a physician who mentioned during his talk that he’d practiced OB in the military at Ft. Eustis, VA in the late 1950’s. Which was where and when my wife was born. She pulled out her birth certificate, discovered the speaker’s name and signature was on it as the delivering physician, and thus got to meet the doctor who delivered her! They both got a huge kick out of it and kept up a correspondence until his passing.
These days we use Passport plus Nexus card for access to Canada.
Fun!
Would that my NEXUS application were doing anything but sitting in an electronic heap since February 1.
We are waiting on our 4th renewal. My kids both received no interview renewals for their last 2 cards which sounds good but they were 5 and 8 ten years ago. They don’t really look like that anymore.
I see that it now takes 12 to 15 months for a new application to go through. What a PITA! Our cards have been quite useful, speeding up our crossings AND giving us TSA pre clearance and Global Entry privileges too. And it costs less than either of those programs. But the wait certainly undercuts those benefits. Plus the need to travel to an interview site on the border.
Yeah, at the time I applied, it was advertised as a few months. I went with NEXUS first, intending to then renew my Global Entry, for which I had plenty of time. However, now I have no NEXUS, no Global Entry, and therefore no TSA Pre. If I’d renewed Global Entry first, I would still be able to use it, and still have my TSA Pre, because they extended it beyond expiration for those who were in a renewal process. It really pisses me off.
Unless they changed the rules, you shouldn’t need a passport if you have a Nexus card. But it’s a good idea to carry it anyway if only because local officials have the power to cancel your Nexus card on the spot for even a minor rule infraction. This happened recently to guy who mistakenly thought his Nexus card gave his entire family expedited access. Not only were they turned away from the Nexus lane, but he suddenly no longer had a Nexus card. Their policy is that Nexus cards are for those who know all the rules and strictly follow them.
You can only have one at a time and Nexus includes GE, but the wait times are crazy right now.
Land travel I just use me Nexus card, but flying I always have both because USCIS often arbitrarily asks for my passport. Unfortunately the rules are less than clear.
I’ve been waiting a couple of months for my Global Entry renewal to be approved so the delays are probably for all of these programs.
Yeah, this. Even with land travel we make sure to have our passports handy too. An occasional border agent (generally on the US side, IME) seems to just be looking for a reason to make a fuss. Fortunately most have been quite polite and helpful.