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State Dept adding intrusive, semi-impossible questinnaire for US passport applications
boingboing.net ^ | April 25, 2011 | Cory Doctorow

Posted on 04/25/2011 3:25:23 PM PDT by MamaDearest

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To: dalereed
I know every address i’ve ever lived at without looking it up and I’m 74.

Diitto that here, but most people don't have that kind of information handy without a major research job through their personal documents. I saved my old payroll stubs, but about half of the places I've worked through the years no longer exist, and a good many of the people with whom I worked are no longer alive (tracking back over 40 years).

Another mind boggling question on the form asks who was present at my birth. In those days fathers were not permitted in the room for the actual birth and other than the doctor's name on the birth certificate, how would anyone know?

41 posted on 04/25/2011 6:08:25 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Emperor Palpatine; unkus; MamaDearest; SkyPilot; freekitty; jesseam; bitt; Nachum; ncfool; ...

That should be up on billboards all over the country.

Add their Death Panels (Holocaust II) and it all ties in.


42 posted on 04/25/2011 6:20:52 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Thanks for the ping!

This is outrageous !

43 posted on 04/25/2011 6:29:53 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: MamaDearest
The new form, which would be called DS-5513, is a biographical questionnaire that the Department of State would send out whenever a passport applicant “submits citizenship or identity evidence that is insufficient or of questionable authenticity.”

In other words, if you have a delayed birth certificate filed more than one year after you were born, or you were born at home with a midwife instead of in a hospital, you would probably need to fill out DS-5513.

44 posted on 04/25/2011 6:57:09 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: nopardons

I’ve sent this to everyone in my address list. The American people better wake up or they will be living in a WWII-style prison camp, IMO.


45 posted on 04/25/2011 7:39:35 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Such a questionnaire is more detailed and invasive, than what the Nazis required people to fill out for whatever reason!

The thing is, I just hope that I can renew my passport, without having to fill that vile thing out, I couldn't supply a lot of the required info.

46 posted on 04/25/2011 7:43:36 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ExTexasRedhead

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47 posted on 04/25/2011 9:12:35 PM PDT by bitt ( ..Congress - either investigate Obama ...or yourselves, for complicity)
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To: dalereed

Your memory is much better than mine, then. I lost track after about move #10 or so...


48 posted on 04/25/2011 9:13:04 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: sionnsar

Been in Burbank lately? I’ve had less scrutiny flying out of Minsk.


49 posted on 04/26/2011 11:42:19 AM PDT by MeganC (NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
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To: MamaDearest
It's not clear from the supporting statement, statement of legal authorities, or regulatory assessment submitted by the State Department to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) why declining to discuss one's siblings or to provide the phone number of your first supervisor when you were a teenager working at McDonalds would be a legitimate basis for denial of a passport to a U.S. citizen.

My first supervisor is deceased. I'm thinking his number is unlisted.

50 posted on 04/26/2011 11:45:56 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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To: MamaDearest

I find the “Paperwork Reduction Act” disclosure at the end of the form to be especially ironic.


51 posted on 04/26/2011 11:48:56 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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To: MamaDearest

I don’t have any plans to apply for another passport, but I don’t see how I could complete this questionnaire. For example, my mother was born 113 years ago. The college that she attended briefly can’t even find any record that she was there, let alone where she lived. I never owned a home until I was 33 years old. There were times I lived for a week or less at an address, no way I could remember it. I didn’t have any trouble, either in military service or years of civilian employment, in getting high level security clearances either. Who dreams up this stuff anyway?


52 posted on 04/26/2011 12:01:22 PM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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To: SeaDragon

Check this out. Good grief.


53 posted on 04/26/2011 12:16:06 PM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: MamaDearest

I moved about 13 times within a 3 year period in the 90’s...there’s NO way I can remember every address since birth.

HOMELAND OF TYRANNY at your service...f em. When the occupant of the Oval Office answers ALL of these questions HONESTLY, only then will I. Thank fully, I don’t need a passport any time soon.


54 posted on 04/26/2011 12:25:00 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
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To: RikaStrom

And the beat goes on............


55 posted on 04/26/2011 12:25:19 PM PDT by SeaDragon ("Life is tough ..... It's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
My first supervisor is deceased. I'm thinking his number is unlisted.

Locating contacts (work or personal) from decades ago has proven to be near impossible in many cases. Many people have ID theft rationale for removing all traces of them off the internet and everywhere else possible. Some of the people I've known are deceased, and untrackable as well. We've lived in apartments and condos while homes were being built (and have no clue whatsoever those addresses were, as they were temporary lodging). I've also taken a couple of jobs and walked out of them on the first day (not all employers disclose THEIR negatives, but choose to let workers find out for themselves how bad the workplace or the co-workers are/is).

56 posted on 04/26/2011 2:42:55 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MeganC
Been in Burbank lately? I’ve had less scrutiny flying out of Minsk.

No, but thanks for the heads' up. I will avoid it. Not that I go anywhere in SoCal very often.

57 posted on 04/26/2011 7:42:10 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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58 posted on 04/26/2011 9:35:17 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: MamaDearest

If I’m not mistaken, the public comment period on this just closed.


59 posted on 04/27/2011 1:18:40 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: MamaDearest

http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/02/24/2011-4154/60-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-ds-5513-biographical-questionnaire-for-us-passport


60 posted on 04/27/2011 1:19:43 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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