This is the only part of this article that matters:
>>A federal indictment states that Dawkins started to fill out a passport application in 2004, didn’t complete it, then filled out a new application two years later.
On that new application, he checked a box “no” for the question, “Have you ever applied before?” according to the indictment.<<
If that information is accurate, then there is more to this story. The simple reason is that you do not apply for something unless you complete and submit an application. According to the first sentence above, the application in 2004 was not completed, and therefore he answered correctly two years later. And if the first one was not filled out, how did anyone even know about it?
I repeat: there is something missing here.
And if the first one was not filled out, how did anyone even know about it?
/// good point. that is more than a little disturbing...
Easily explained. He turned the incomplete form back to the clerk and the clerk filed it and entered his name in the system. Once in the system, it tagged him with the "no" box checked.
What happens if an adult fills out an application and honestly checks the "no" box because he/she never applied but when he/she was a kid the parents applied for said kid? You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Something isn't clear. Do you think they count just receiving an application as "applied for" an application? Maybe there should be a box asking, Did you ever receive an application and did not submit it? lol.
Whatever it is, it seems ridiculous. Then again, those in government aren't known to take rational actions.
No, you can fill a passport online and go back to it a number of times and have it printed out. I didnt realize that they considered the filling out an “applied.” Fortunately, I already had had a passport.
Good question, that. I assume if the one in 2004 was not completed, then it was not submitted (It would not have even been accepted if incomplete). If it was not submitted, then how can he be said to have "applied?" No reasonable person would say so. There has to be more to the story if the guy's been sitting in the bucket this long.