Timeline for European citizen travelling to another European country without valid passport
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| Jun 19, 2017 at 17:56 | comment | added | phoog | @gerrit the non-driver id has developed to address the fact that driver's licenses are used in the US and Canada as de facto identity documents. They are issued by driver licensing agencies as a matter of practical convenience. Except for "enhanced" licenses and id cards, which are issued by only a handful of states and a couple of provinces, they say nothing about the bearer's nationality. In the US, they are increasingly tied to legal immigration status, however, thanks to the Real ID act. Still, they are functionally and legally more like an EU driver's license than a national ID card. | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 17:21 | comment | added | Crazydre | @Gerrit Enhanced state ID, that is correct, but they're state-issued and not federally (unlike European IDs) and are less "powerful" as travel documents | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 17:18 | comment | added | gerrit | @Crazydre I thought many states had ID cards "for people who don't drive". At least Ontario, Canada does ("Ontario photo card"). | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 17:00 | comment | added | Crazydre | @Harper There's the US passport card, but few People other than border area commuters have them. Otherwise, that's the equivalent of our national ID Cards (in fact when I use my European ID at bars in the US and they ask what it is, I always call it a passport card) | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 16:58 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | In the USA your State-issued driver's license is your identity card nationwide. Identity cards, per se, are unavailable; except the Dept. of Motor Vehicles (or whoever issues drivers' licenses) will issue them to non-drivers only. They say "Identification card" but otherwise look, walk and quack like a driver's license. So if I saw a movie where a Slovenian cop demanded ID and got only a Dutch driver's license, that would seem totally normal to me. | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 15:26 | comment | added | Summer | A lot of people over the age of 24 do not have a identiteitskaart as it was not mandatory for them to get one. My partner does not have one either, he only has his passport and drivers license. | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 15:23 | comment | added | Crazydre | It does suffice within virtually all of Europe (and some places outside), not just Schengen. However OP's Partner doesn't have it | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 15:10 | history | answered | hiergiltdiestfu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |