Citizen Cards

anybody hear of theses??? At the moment they are more to show proof of age...I got one basically for glastonbury as with the ticket touting you need to show proof of who you are and it's something they are wanting to push to combat fraud. What you do think..will you be getting one?

http://www.citizencard.com/

So, are you a citizen here?  Or can it be the US as well?  Could someone like me get one?  I have been here for 1 year so far on a spouse visa.

This is a bit scary actually.  Who collects this information?  Is this a government sponsored thing?  I would be more than a bit leary about giving my personal information to a private company to do whatever they may do with it.  Or loose it, or let it get out......  Paranoid?  Yes - identity theft can ruin your life.

~Liza

I certainly won't be applying for one.  If my existing driver's license, passport, and birth certificate aren't good enough for anybody, then too bad.

Maybe I'm getting too cynical, but I see this scheme as an attempt to soften people up into accepting the idea of ID cards.  I'm sure the government must believe that if people will accept a government-backed, but privately run and voluntary system of ID cards, then they'll be a much softer touch for when they decide to make government-issued ID compulsory.    I won't be applying for one of those cards either.

I certainly won't be applying for one.  If my existing driver's license, passport, and birth certificate aren't good enough for anybody, then too bad.

Maybe I'm getting too cynical, but I see this scheme as an attempt to soften people up into accepting the idea of ID cards.  I'm sure the government must believe that if people will accept a government-backed, but privately run and voluntary system of ID cards, then they'll be a much softer touch for when they decide to make government-issued ID compulsory.    I won't be applying for one of those cards either.

Amen to that!

~Liza

To be honest, I would really like an ID card.  I hate having to carry my passport around every time I need to show identification--to pick up a package at the post office, for example.  I don't have a driving license; I have a New York State non-Driver ID with a US address that I haven't lived at in almost a year, so it's useless.

I am from New York City, so I'm very used to constantly having to show ID.

I've found a provisional driving licence is useful for id, even when I wasn't learning to drive.

To be honest, I would really like an ID card.  I hate having to carry my passport around every time I need to show identification--to pick up a package at the post office, for example.  I don't have a driving license; I have a New York State non-Driver ID with a US address that I haven't lived at in almost a year, so it's useless.

I am from New York City, so I'm very used to constantly having to show ID.

Ditto!

I've found a provisional driving licence is useful for id, even when I wasn't learning to drive.

What is a provisional driving license?  To me, the name seems like something someone gets when they are planning to learn to drive, and have at least taken a theory test or something similar.

that's what a provisional driver's lisence is you are applying to take the test ...to be honest I carry that and some banks tellers get arsy...even the post office because the photo is quite small and the info it's not plainly found (people are just getting lazy really) The citizen card is initiated with a not for profit organization in lieu with labour and it's in a pilot scheme (I think)

the Glastonbury organizer M.E. has collaborated inorder to get folks to sign up for it. Now glastonbury tickets are allocated by name and I don't want to carry my passport as ID ..this citizencard is easier to carry and less of a risk if I lose it. Hubs objects to getting one for himself and I can see his point but then again what information about him isn't already out there on the system??  For me since I am not from this country seems easier to prove my identity. I lost my US driver's lisence about a year after I came here and my passport was at the Home office for application processing so it was really hard to prove my identity for even the simpliest of things.

The card is free to apply  and you need to be referenced in order to get it and anyone that can show proof of who they are can get it. I think Blunkett was the genius behind this citizencard.

What is a provisional driving license?  To me, the name seems like something someone gets when they are planning to learn to drive, and have at least taken a theory test or something similar.

Actaully you can't take the theory test until you have the provional license. It is what you get so you can take driving lessons, however they are good for 10 years, I had mine several years before I started taking driving lessons as I kept putting that off.

So what do you have to do to get a provisional license?

So what do you have to do to get a provisional license?

Just send the form, your passport, and the fee to the DVLA in Swansea.

In simple terms, a "provisional licence" is just the British bureaucracy's term for a learner's permit