Cuz it takes like a few weeks to process and get your passport and documents back…

If the government wanted to, theoretically, they could “accidentally lose” the documents…

👀

  • Jack@slrpnk.net
    13·
    3 days ago

    Is that an American thing I am too European to understand or am I just still sleeping

    • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.worksOP
      12·
      3 days ago

      In the US, you go to a post office, and you have to hand over the physical, original copy of your proof of citizenship when apply for the first time so the postal worker can attach to the packet of stuff they send to the US Department of State… and they only give it back after they finished processing your passport application…

      So while waiting… (takes a few weeks to process) you have:

      -No Passport -No Certificate of Citizenship/Naturalization or Birth Certificate…

      Meaning no proof of Citizenship…

      Which means its kinda awkward if you get approached by government agents during this time… and have no proof of your claim to be a US Citizen…

      Apparantly for people with birthright citizens, they can just get a birth certificate for like $10-$30, which I didn’t know before… TIL

      But since I’m foreign-born and naturalized (or technically speaking, it’s Citizenship via Derivation under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, but its too complicated and I don’t wanna write a paragraph on that), I would need to file a N-565 to get a replacement copy of my proof of citizenship…

      And it’s $500 for the filing fee…

      Yea I don’t think people are gonna really wanna spend $500 just for an extra “backup copy” they statiscally don’t need, unless it actually gets lost in the system and then they’d have no choice but to pay $500…

      And that also takes time to process…

      (And before you ask: Yes it is night time here, but I don’t really feel like sleeping right now lol)

      • MissJinx@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days ago

        wtf! here we just go to a place, the person takes my picture, looks at my documents (most are already online anyways) and I just go get it in the same place a week later. Wouldn’t be easier and safer for citzens to have those little kiosks?