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 BA>>> Tell us, Ross, do YOU carry proof of your legal residence
 BA>>> in this country with you all the time?  Note that a

 BK>>  I do. However, just my luck I'll be in Arizona on a
 BK>> business  trip, run down to the motel office to get the
 BK>> free continental  breakfast, and forget to take my wallet.

 BA> You have got to be the only person in this country that
 BA> carries his birth certificate around with him - and proof

 In this state proof of legal residence is required to get a
 driver's license. So the driver's license becomes the proof of
 legal residence.

 BA> that that birth certificate you're carrying is in fact
 BA> yours.  While a driver's license is (considered to be)
 BA> proof of identification, it is *not* proof of citizenship
 BA> *or* legal residence; neither, FTM, is a military ID card.

 It is if proof of legal residence is required to get the
 license.

 Of course, your license may not be real, but that is true of any
 document you may present. So, there is no perfect proof, but
 enough to do the job.

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 BK>>  Did you have a point?

 BA> Certainly.  And it went over your head.

 I think it sank.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... I run the convenience store on the road less traveled.
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