In fairness, there is a non-zero chance Trump has sucked off Putin already.

Nope.

We just want Greenland sex.

For some reason.

Better they fight each other instead of dominate the world together. Its called the balance of power. Sadly

I don't recall answering any of those questions since I got my passport in the 2000s.

It is not. Those questions have been on the DS-11 since before 2021.

ten years ago i had to have this information for my application.

This is about people in the US being able to go to other countries.

Wish I didn't have to, but unfortunately I was born here :/

My father was given a middle name at birth, which he changed when he got his Social Security card. I've already had a bit of legal difficulty with that one.

for first timers i think, it might not be the case if you hadnt renew your passport in more than 15+years.

Kind of

The vast majority of the time we use our social security numbers as a personal ID number. Drivers licenses also will have unique numbers on them which you can query off of, so too do passports.

By law, no one is required to have any of those three. People having a social security number is pretty common, but getting one of those is the easiest of the three.

Because none of them are a legal requirement to be a citizen, each one has multiple document set requirements, and if you have the other two, the third is trivial to obtain.

The documents you need if you're not leveraging another form of ID are basically a set of documents that aren't that difficult for your average person to get their own copies of but harder for some one else to forge and claim to be another person

The US government has the information, but there's no way for companies to sell you something if they used that data.

It's the same with US taxes. The IRS knows exactly how much you owe them each year. As a citizen, you cannot access that information. You have to fill out needlessly complicated forms to guess the correct amount of money to send them. If you guess wrong you can go to jail or be fined. To prevent this, you pay a company to fill out those forms. They don't get access to the correct number either, but you can buy insurance from them so they'll pay for your lawyer to defend you if you guess wrong.

The US is not only quit populous, our huge footprint and lack of government centralization causes a lot of stupid shit like using bills for proof of residence. Imagine tying 100s of thousands of databases together so the federal government can pull all info on a citizen.

BTW, this is exactly what Palantir is accomplishing and we should be screaming about it.

My wife had to sent utility bills with her name and our address on it to immigration to prove she didn't marry for the green card and we're actually living together. And don't start me on our immigration system, totally and purposefully broken.

Americans are not fans of centralized information on the population. It doesn't help that the corporate equivalent to Voldemort is trying to sell it as a means of "law and order". Something every American understands is meant to screw with us. Literally every time we give the government a new database they abuse it. The most recent is connecting a medical database to immigration enforcement.

So yeah. If we could stop electing people under the motto, "The Cruelty Is The Point", then we could have nice things.

what county was your mother or father born in? just 1 out of 3143.

hope your parents aren't dead and you can't ask them.

good luck!

/s

point is, this information used to be used as a way to align an identity to an individual, however with the expansion of digital identity information making its way on the internet the mechanism is broken.

I different method could and should be used.

If I live in new york, but I know that my parents were born somewhere on the west coast, would this still apply? Can I contact my county clerk for the info?