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meow2u3

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8. Do you have a passport?

Reply to drm604 (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 02:38 PM

Mar 2012

A passport, AFAIK, costs $140 plus a $25 "execution fee." Here's the skinny: http://travel.state.gov/passport/fees/fees_837.html

Here's the web site for the steps to get your PA ID card: http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/licensing_master/identity.shtml. Photo ID is $15, a poll tax if you ask me.

Returning to the subject of obtaining a certified copy of your birth certificate, if you order online, you may have to pay $15 in shipping and $8.35 (?) in handling fees, but your credit or debit card with your name on it constitutes proof of identity.

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Maybe we need to start ID drives similar to voter registration drives. [View all] drm604 Mar 2012 OP

Great idea liberal N proud Mar 2012 #1

I love that idea! nt K8-EEE Mar 2012 #2

Unions and Occupy should get behind this. Let's make it a real campaign. OregonBlue Mar 2012 #3

This will probably be even more important than registration Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #4

Not just educating people. drm604 Mar 2012 #5

We should also raise money for people to get their birth certificates meow2u3 Mar 2012 #6

It's been so many years (decades actually) since I first got my driver's license drm604 Mar 2012 #7

Do you have a passport? meow2u3 Mar 2012 #8

Nope, don't have a passport. drm604 Mar 2012 #9

News reports say Pa. will pay for non-driver photo IDs JPZenger Mar 2012 #10

So we need to somehow help people get birth certiticates and then photo IDs. drm604 Mar 2012 #11