Suitable ID card?

System

Most places around here accept validate nd citizencard, the other option would be driving license or passport.

Personally i use my provisional (and have managed not to lose it in 6 years!)

Ninetails

MrsManda wrote: »

Does your NUS card have a PASS hologram?

Sorry for tardy reply MrsManda - no PASS hologram on the NUS card.


PS: we now have a provisional license, so ID away!

ixia

I am going to have to get my 18 year old a provisional as when he goes out in some places they won't accept his passport as he's only 15 in it and looks totally different now he gets very frustrated.

rozmister

I've done the training to hold an SIA licence (passed with flying colours I might add!) which is what door staff need to work the door. We were taught that you could only even consider accepting a driving licence, passport with an up to date photo (none of people as kids) or a piece of ID with the PASS holographic logo on it but that most venues wouldn't accept the PASS approved ID. I think this may be something to do with how you get PASS ID; I remember when I was at college a dodgy librarian signing lots of the PASS forms for underage students so it may be a less watertight system then the other two.

rev_henry

rozmister wrote: »

I've done the training to hold an SIA licence (passed with flying colours I might add!) which is what door staff need to work the door. We were taught that you could only even consider accepting a driving licence, passport with an up to date photo (none of people as kids) or a piece of ID with the PASS holographic logo on it but that most venues wouldn't accept the PASS approved ID. I think this may be something to do with how you get PASS ID; I remember when I was at college a dodgy librarian signing lots of the PASS forms for underage students so it may be a less watertight system then the other two.

On the one hand, the situation with up to date photos seems fine, but then the same passport which cannot be used to get into a nightclub can be used to travel the world. Have you ever seen or heard of a passport being rejected by border control for bearing an out of date photo? So potentially people trafficking is less important than licensing laws? Hmmm...

I've heard similar things about PASS cards though, also they're easy to fake apparently...

Joeylion

rev_henry wrote: »

On the one hand, the situation with up to date photos seems fine, but then the same passport which cannot be used to get into a nightclub can be used to travel the world. Have you ever seen or heard of a passport being rejected by border control for bearing an out of date photo? So potentially people trafficking is less important than licensing laws? Hmmm...

I've heard similar things about PASS cards though, also they're easy to fake apparently...

You can use the same passport for holidays and nightclubs. Only thing is if it gets damaged/ruined then it won't be accepted when flying.

Fiddlestick

ixia wrote: »

I am going to have to get my 18 year old a provisional as when he goes out in some places they won't accept his passport as he's only 15 in it and looks totally different now he gets very frustrated.

Can he not get it himself?

rozmister

rev_henry wrote: »

On the one hand, the situation with up to date photos seems fine, but then the same passport which cannot be used to get into a nightclub can be used to travel the world. Have you ever seen or heard of a passport being rejected by border control for bearing an out of date photo? So potentially people trafficking is less important than licensing laws? Hmmm...

I've heard similar things about PASS cards though, also they're easy to fake apparently...

Yeh it is a bit odd about people trafficking. However I doubt many young lads or girls lend out their passports so they friend can travel abroad illegally but plenty are happy to chance it and lend out their passport if they think the photo is old enough/they look similar enough they might get away with it. That's why you need to be a bit more careful with it than border control. I think the kind of people who traffic/illegally travel have a more sophisticated operation going than borrowing their brothers passport that has a 6 years old photo in it.

minerva_windsong

Passport or provisional driving licence - I've never been anywhere where they accepted anything else. Even the campus bars at my uni wouldn't take student cards...

Just don't do what I did and lose your provisional licence on the first day! (I had to use it as ID to pick up events tickets, then got back to my room and couldn't find it. I had to chance it for the whole of Freshers' Week whilst I waited for my mum to send me my passport, which is not ideal when you're 5'2" and have a very young-looking face...)

I also got funny looks with my old passport as on the photo I've got massive glasses and really long hair, whereas by the time I'd got to uni I'd cut my hair shorter and started wearing contacts.

archer7

rozmister wrote: »

I've done the training to hold an SIA licence (passed with flying colours I might add!) which is what door staff need to work the door. We were taught that you could only even consider accepting a driving licence, passport with an up to date photo (none of people as kids) or a piece of ID with the PASS holographic logo on it but that most venues wouldn't accept the PASS approved ID. I think this may be something to do with how you get PASS ID; I remember when I was at college a dodgy librarian signing lots of the PASS forms for underage students so it may be a less watertight system then the other two.

I can confirm this, I'm also trained! A PASS card will be fine to buy alcohol in shops, but if you want to go out to bars/clubs, you'll probably need something else.