ScottDLS wrote:I got a US Passport Card (wallet size) for $30 that I can use as a second form of ID. From an entry to the US standpoint, it's only good for land/sea entry from Canada, Mexico, and (sea) Caribbean. I've got a regular passport book, but I don't like to carry it around unless I'm traveling.
Do you carry that thing in your wallet? The State Department seems pretty adamant about it not leaving that protective sleeve they ship with it...
Wait, why is the Caribbean the only place listed as "sea". If I just wash up on the shores of North Carolina, wouldn't I be entering from the sea? (And — sorta tangentially related — how are random people swimming in from the ocean handled? It's not like there's a ICE agent stationed every 50ft along the shore or anything...)
The Caribbean is the departure point. So if you fell off the ship after it left the caribbean and washed up on the shore of North Carolina, then the card would be good for entry. You might have to show your ticket stub from the cruise ship to immigration.
ScottDLS wrote:I got a US Passport Card (wallet size) for $30 that I can use as a second form of ID. From an entry to the US standpoint, it's only good for land/sea entry from Canada, Mexico, and (sea) Caribbean. I've got a regular passport book, but I don't like to carry it around unless I'm traveling.
Do you carry that thing in your wallet? The State Department seems pretty adamant about it not leaving that protective sleeve they ship with it...
No Wes, the instructions say to LEAVE it in the sleeve. It has a chip that can be scanned by a proximity scanner if you take it out. They have some foil in the sleeve to prevent that...but I decided to put my Amex in that instead . I keep it in a plastic sleeve in my GIANT wallet that I got since I'm going to Argentina for work. I got the passport card because I leave my Passport Book in the room safe at my hotel. It has my work visa and entry stamps that are necessary to work in a socialist country. But whenever I change money, use a US credit card, or enter a controlled building I have to show a "national" ID card, so I use the US passport card. It's that or my Texas DL or CHL .
Looking into getting a shotgun permit down there since there's lot's of dove hunting. They have massive dove population and natural predators (hawks?) are gone. Obviously can't carry handgun down in Buenos Aires and feel a bit "naked", but I have to earn a living so I deal.
-ScottDLS
4/13/1996 Completed CHL Class, 4/16/1996 Fingerprints, Affidavits, and Application Mailed, 10/4/1996 Received CHL, renewed 1998, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2016...). "ATF... Uhhh...heh...heh....Alcohol, tobacco, and GUNS!! Cool!!!!"
. I keep it in a plastic sleeve in my GIANT wallet that I got since I'm going to Argentina for work. I got the passport card because I leave my Passport Book in the room safe at my hotel. It has my work visa and entry stamps that are necessary to work in a socialist country. But whenever I change money, use a US credit card, or enter a controlled building I have to show a "national" ID card, so I use the US passport card. It's that or my Texas DL or CHL 
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