• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Isn’t falsifying a passport some kind of major felony? How indeed would they use it without getting arrested? Lol

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      2 months ago

      https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1543

      It’s a federal ID, not a state ID. I assume that makes it a federal crime based on that link above.

      It was super easy to make a fake ID out of my passport when I was a kid. I scanned the photo page, Photoshoped it and printed it out on a color printer. I cut out the picture on the printout with a razor, covered it with a lamination sheet and stuck it on top of the real ID. After a quick trim, nobody could tell the difference.

      The real trick was that hardly anyone uses a passport as an ID at a bar so bouncers and bartenders didn’t know what to look for in a fake. (It still looked very real for what was almost 25 years ago or more.)

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    I feel like SovCit is lying. That’s a legit passport but he wants his feelings stoked by the group.

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      2 months ago

      Unfortunately, I think you need a passport number to be able to even book an international flight.
      Not like they will spend $$$$ getting to another country to be denied at the border.

      Unless they drive, I guess. I feel like it’s “easy” to get into Mexico, and would probably be impossible to get home again.

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    It’s a regular U.S. passport, right? Went through hell? You bring a couple of identifying documents to the post office, they take your picture and you give them money. If you expedite it, it’s super expensive. That’s pretty much it.

  • Fleur_@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    They’re gonna start paying fake taxes so they don’t have to pay for real taxes