Post #2961437
2025-09-26 16:17 UTC
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@cfy@mas.to 2025-09-26 16:19
@edzilla@social.edzilla.info @underseamonkey@fosstodon.org @duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk @TimWardCam@c.im @jonpsp@mstdn.social @AlisonW@fedimon.uk Passport doesn't fit in your wallet and doesn't have your address, so can't be used as proof of address. That's why in the UK utility bills get elevated to official documents proving your address - impossible to falsify 🤪
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@underseamonkey@fosstodon.org 2025-09-26 16:23
@edzilla@social.edzilla.info @duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk @TimWardCam@c.im @jonpsp@mstdn.social @cfy@mas.to @AlisonW@fedimon.uk Your passport isn't electronic, it's voluntary, it's isolated to the passport office... shall I go on?
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2025-09-26 16:20
@edzilla@social.edzilla.info @underseamonkey@fosstodon.org @duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk @jonpsp@mstdn.social @cfy@mas.to @AlisonW@fedimon.uk The really really BIG difference is that you only NEED to have your passport with you when you're passing through a port - the clue is in the name, right? And there are plenty of people who don't have passports because they don't need them - for whatever reason, they don't travel abroad. And there are plenty of British citizens who don't have a British passport because they've been lucky enough to get a rather more useful EU one (so why bother to renew the British one, why pay twice for an inferior product?).