No Driving License or Passport? In the UK, You’re a Non-Citizen!
You’d think with global warming continuing apace, a person who didn’t drive or fly would be respected. Not so.
The Nurse applied for a loan recently, only to find that everyone thinks she’s dodgy as fuck. A criminal, money launderer, illegal alien, ID thief or worse. She has experienced all sorts of hitches, running the gauntlet of suspicious solicitors, edgy lenders and paranoid financial advisers.
Why? Although The Nurse’s credit record is absolutely immaculate, she doesn’t have a passport or a driving licence.
It appears that having one or the other, preferably both, makes you a legitimate citizen of the UK. Without them you’re a non-person.
The Nurse doesn’t have a driving licence because she doesn’t drive. She doesn’t have a passport because she doesn’t want to travel overseas. She’s in prison and couldn’t globetrot even if she wanted to, but it is the principle of the thing. She is doing her best to be environmentally responsible and she is determined to minimise her carbon footprint.
Sadly financial institutions and the legal profession don’t see it that way.
The Nurse’s birth certificate isn’t good enough. Because she hasn’t any photo ID, she has had to prove her identity several times during the loan application process. Witnessed documents, statements from her doctor, signed confirmations that she is who she says she is… all manner of weird and wonderful paperwork.
Finally in possession of her cash, The Nurse is nevertheless left feeling insulted. Here she is, doing her best to be green, and she’s treated like a criminal. OK, she is a criminal. She’s a mass murderer. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t a legitimate UK citizen, born and bred.
The Nurse never thought she’d view national ID cards as a good thing. But, having experienced the hassle of being without any other form of ‘acceptable’ identification, she’s beginning to wonder.
Mike from coolest gadgets wrote,
It’s tough when you don’t have any picture ID. I remember someone that was robbed and both her passport and drivers license was taken.
Same issue as what you detailed above. She couldn’t get access to her funds until she had a picture ID and without picture ID, she had to get someone deemed trustworthy (ie clergy, doctor, lawyer etc) to vouch for her identity.
Link | October 16th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Jimmy from Criminal Solicitors London wrote,
Why exactly are you more trustworthy if you are a clergy, doctor or lawyer? You aren’t more or less trustworthy depending on your job – just look at the policitians.
Link | October 27th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Herb Shallcross wrote,
The nurse needs to get over all this crap about carbon footprints and Global warming. It’s hard to discredit a fake religion, but just remember, in the scientific method, if any of the available observatons cannot be explained by a hypothesis, it is false. That’s why your compatriots at East Anglia destroyed most of their original data. It couldn’t possibly have withstood peer review. Over here in the States, NASA has repeatedly been caught fudging and cooking the books. Don’t let me get started on Al Gore, who is an embarassment to the most fanatical of climate change believers.
Link | December 27th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Herbert L. Shallcross III wrote,
Nurse says global warming is going apace. Apace seems to mean that global temperatures have cooled for the last decade. None of the vaunted computer models can explain it, and hustlers like the Hadley Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University and NASA have been caught lying about it.
The reason they are pushing this fraud is obvious from what they think is necessary to fix it. Obviously, giving the embezzlers at U.N. power to penalize the developed world a crippling amount of money and hand it out to totalitarian dictators is a valid solution!.
Link | January 12th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
drug and alcohol course wrote,
Better be roman in Rome. I think that this is the apt advice I could give to anybody with a similar situation.
Link | January 18th, 2010 at 7:05 am
Jordan wrote,
Passports are soooo important these days. For U.S. Citizens you MUST have one if you are traveling out of the country. The bad part is it takes months to get your passport and sometimes people forget about it or need to renew their passport.
Fortunately there are passport expediting services available to help with the process. These services can get your emergency passport in the same day.
Link | October 1st, 2010 at 1:50 am
Claire from Anti Aging wrote,
The importance of passport is mainly for ‘identification’ in another countries. in case of death, in another country; your passport can help people to allocate your relatives, and your mother country.
Link | February 7th, 2011 at 11:47 am
from dental insurance plans wrote,
Its all a bunch of government control crap.
Link | February 18th, 2011 at 7:30 am
eddie from london solicitors wrote,
I can understand where you’re coming from Nurse but passports are very important these days as the world has become a much smaller place. Also you may want to travel overseas one day.
Link | February 23rd, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Joel from hgh wrote,
A passport is one of the most important forms of identification a person can possess. It is important to have a passport if you plan to travel to a different country so that you will be able to prove who you are and where you are from. Since travel security measures have increased it is almost impossible to travel without a passport.
Link | June 14th, 2011 at 9:01 am
The Nurse wrote,
Got you there Joel… why should I pay for a passport when I have no intention of travelling abroad… ever?
Link | November 3rd, 2011 at 2:42 pm