Papers please ass nonsense.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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I am unable to get a real id because when I was a kid I started to use my middle name (due to bullying), my dad had my birth certificate changed to show my first name as an initial. When I graduated high school I went back to using my first name. My current id has my birth name, my social security card has my initialed first name, but social security does not use middle names, so I am A Lastname.
How does that prevent you from using using your legal name in an ID?
Because I have 3 different legal names.
Then if you've been living just fine with 3 legal names, I don't see how that would become a problem now. It's the government's responsibility to keep track of that, no? At lest that's how it works in my country.
Because I need all of my forms of ID to match to get a real id, I do not have that and have had no luck getting them to all match.
Can you get a passport?
Hopefully, that is my goal next week.
Passport is based on birth certificate, and is a realid
I haven't gotten one yet, but it sounds like I'll be forced to if I want to visit family.
You can get a passport card instead if you want, it has the added advantage of not having your address on it if you are that paranoid about leaking information to TSA
So in the good ol' days when parts of the american democracy could still be claimed to exist for the good of the citizenry, there was a supreme court ruling that said the right to travel (not drive a car but as a passenger, by foot, train and by extension plane) without ID was fundamental to interstate commerce and the concept of a nation. Unfortunately the Bush admin with the help of 9/11 passed an unconstitutional law, and since American Jurisprudence only cares about business interests, we have this trash law with trash people defending it.