Carrying ID in the US - what do you always carry with you?

[Reba 2]

I carry my GC most times too. I've never been asked to show it for work authorisation either. Is it really a law to have your A#? Never heard that one before.

FWIW take a copy (front and back) of your GC and keep it safe. Apparently it makes it easier to get a replacement, but that could be heresay...

there's a spot on all new employee forms that asks if you are a citizen and if not, are you legal to work, and if so, what's your A#. The employer is supposed to ask to see it.

Lou Lou, "we" is anybody, citizen or not. We should all carry some form of ID. Whether or not I know a citizen whose been asked for it is irrelevant. There have been green card holders who've been asked and didn't have it with them and they were detained until their status could be proved, despite their protestations that they were legal. I imagine it wouldn't have made much difference if they had completed the citizenship oath, they likely still would have been detained until their status had been proved.

Yeah, its a royal pain in the #######, but this is the way of the world these days.

[brtlmj 0]

Lou Lou, "we" is anybody, citizen or not. We should all carry some form of ID.

Is this a law, or your personal opinion ? And what is "some form of ID" ? Passport ? Driver license ?

I imagine it wouldn't have made much difference if they had completed the citizenship oath, they likely still would have been detained until their status had been proved.

OK... but are you aware of any UCS being detained for not carrying a proof of citizenship ?

My guess is that an LPR simply won't risk answering "I am a citizen", even though the cops would almost certainly let him/her go. It's way too risky.

Bartek

[Lou Lou 1]

I carry my GC most times too. I've never been asked to show it for work authorisation either. Is it really a law to have your A#? Never heard that one before.

FWIW take a copy (front and back) of your GC and keep it safe. Apparently it makes it easier to get a replacement, but that could be heresay...

there's a spot on all new employee forms that asks if you are a citizen and if not, are you legal to work, and if so, what's your A#. The employer is supposed to ask to see it.

Surely this is some form for large institutions or something? Certainly the places I have worked have not had "new employee" forms or anything of the sort.

Lou Lou, "we" is anybody, citizen or not. We should all carry some form of ID. Whether or not I know a citizen whose been asked for it is irrelevant. There have been green card holders who've been asked and didn't have it with them and they were detained until their status could be proved, despite their protestations that they were legal. I imagine it wouldn't have made much difference if they had completed the citizenship oath, they likely still would have been detained until their status had been proved.

Yeah, its a royal pain in the #######, but this is the way of the world these days.

Now I'm really confused? I didn't ask about all this. Bartek did.

[Artegal 1]

A cop is not going to stop you and just out of the blue ask for if you are a USC or not. They will within the law for probrable cause, or in the investigation stop you and ask for identification--if you show proper identification, that could be your Green Card, Passport, Voter ID, Driver's License, State issued ID, other Government ID, Student ID, or a Social Security card and a Birth Certificate, or a Notorized sworn affidavit that you are a legal resident or US Citizen. Anyway not likely just show a Driver's license and you are pretty safe they are not going to ask your status.

The only expection to this would be when once in a while they have a task force with ICE where they are running an immigration raid or setting up an immigration checkpoint. This is a special circumstance in most states but pretty standard in the American South West near the border with Mexico.

I don't carry my ID unless I need it, and I have instructed my wife to do the same--if she does not need her ID then she does not carry any. If we want to travel, go to a job interview, get into a Rated R movie or buy some beer, then we will carry ID.