No Passports For You And Me

[BigMatt]

They just want you to sit at the house, eating Cheeto's and collecting a check from the .gov.

[rockhopper46038]

Scathing comment submitted. Thanks for bringing attention to this.

[rambone]

Originally Posted by SirRealism

Yikes. Has anyone seen any of the criteria used to determine whom they'll require to fill out this form?

It might start out as "some applicants", but it will end up being "every applicant."

[SirRealism]

Originally Posted by rambone

It might start out as "some applicants", but it will end up being "every applicant."

You gotta love laws that are so detailed about the extent to which the gov can hassle you, but yet so vague about the circumstance allowing this authority to be wielded.

[SideArmed]

Originally Posted by grimor

That's actually more involved than my TS clearance paperwork....

That is exaxtly what I was thinking, I only had to go back 10 years! not all the way to birth.

[indytechnerd]

Originally Posted by SirRealism

Yikes. Has anyone seen any of the criteria used to determine whom they'll require to fill out this form?

Originally Posted by rambone

It might start out as "some applicants", but it will end up being "every applicant."

Originally Posted by SirRealism

You gotta love laws that are so detailed about the extent to which the gov can hassle you, but yet so vague about the circumstance allowing this authority to be wielded.

Nah, it's really easy to tell who has to fill out the "expanded" form....do you have a mark on your hand or forehead? No? OK, here's this form, go through that door and someone will *ahem* take care of you.

purple may or may not be applied to the above at the reader's discretion.

[grimor]

Originally Posted by dead2rights

I agree with you Printcraft, but it's obvious making it harder for illegals to get in is not their top concern.

Wouldn't it make it harder for them to leave though? lol

[jbombelli]

Originally Posted by SirRealism

You gotta love laws that are so detailed about the extent to which the gov can hassle you, but yet so vague about the circumstance allowing this authority to be wielded.

So true I'll rep you for that tonight when I'm home - my blackberry doesn't like the rep function.

[iwearcowboyboots]

Originally Posted by sepe

From what I'm seeing is that it would be about .5% of all people applying for a passport and it will be given to people with questionable citizenship or identity.

Sounds like something a government plant would say.

.5% of the 12 to 17 million people who apply for passports a year comes out to 60,000 to 85,000 people. That's roughly the number of Sinti, Lalleri, and Roma that were living in and around Germany in the late 1920s/early 1930s. Gypsies would have trouble naming their relatives and previous employers too. I'm pretty sure that anyone who knows history knows where this is going.

Given that Hillary is known for her antisemetic outbursts and that Hillary Clinton was born 909 days after Hitler's death, it's pretty obvious what's really going on...

[silverspoon]

It seems it is intended for people who don' have a birth certificate.

From here

State Dept adding intrusive, semi-impossible questionnaire for US passport applications - Boing Boing

Update: Commenters note that this form is specifically intended in lieu of a birth certificate with a passport application....

If that's who it is intended for then it isn't so scary.