Identity Verification Problems
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Soldato
Time to exchange it for a photocard licence?
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Because you'd apparently save time by having the more readily accepted one rather than having to cope with an older paper licence. If you're experiencing this as a problem regularly, what reason do you have not to change other than being stubborn?
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Soldato
It's a valid driving license but it's not a valid form of id. If you need a valid id, then it makes sense to get a new driving license.
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Their services their rules.
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Nope, though in the past I've used a valid form of identification so that probably helped.
Soldato
If you have a valid passport that would be suitable.
Soldato
Person inconveniences themselves and then whinges on the internet shocker!
Much like many other i can't say I have much sympathy here.
You're trying to access 2023 online services using a piece of paper, from a very much pre Internet era, that hasn't been issued for 25 odd years because it was wide open to easier abuse vs a photo card ID document (that these days can in some circumstances be independently verified)
If you must hold out with a paper only licence don't expect it to be of much use beyond to show what driving categories the person named on it has.
Beyond the driving categories available to the person named on it, at the time of issue or amendment, what information do you imagine a paper driving licence 'verifies'?
It doesn't even verify a current address as that may have changed and the owner may have broken the law by not updating it in the decades since the document was issued.
You're trying to access 2023 online services using a piece of paper, from a very much pre Internet era, that hasn't been issued for 25 odd years because it was wide open to easier abuse vs a photo card ID document (that these days can in some circumstances be independently verified)
If you must hold out with a paper only licence don't expect it to be of much use beyond to show what driving categories the person named on it has.
Beyond the driving categories available to the person named on it, at the time of issue or amendment, what information do you imagine a paper driving licence 'verifies'?
It doesn't even verify a current address as that may have changed and the owner may have broken the law by not updating it in the decades since the document was issued.
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Got to keep up with the times or get left behind. That’s the way the world works.
In other news my Nokia 3210 can't access .gov sites for online services!
Seriously though I remember people 'borrowing' older siblings and friends paper driving licences back in the 90's to try and blag their way into pubs and clubs.
The days were anyone thought such documents were suitable as general ID docs are long since passed.
Seriously though I remember people 'borrowing' older siblings and friends paper driving licences back in the 90's to try and blag their way into pubs and clubs.
The days were anyone thought such documents were suitable as general ID docs are long since passed.
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Soldato
Why should you have to? So you can use online services.
I can't see why online services should change to account for a small number of outliers.
They can use the photo from your passport and you can do it entirely online.
E: Presuming you have a passport and not just a letter of identity signed by the Duke of Heeldiggin saying that you are who you claim to be
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Soldato
It's online gambling or PayPal isn't it? All gambling sites I've used have asked for photo ID. PayPal which I signed up to in 2001 was ok until 2009 then they turned around and said I hit some sort of "lifetime" limit and had to gush out personal info, even more info than applying for a passport!
I'm curious as to what the "lifetime" limit is, I've had a fair bit go through PayPal and not had that.
Soldato
PayPal froze my account, citing that I had a yearly sales allowance of £3000, although the small print said it was a lifetime sales limit. From 2001 to 2009, so over 8 years, that would have averaged £375 per years, mostly by selling old electronics on eBay. Nothing that HMRC or the DWP would have been interested in. The first I knew of this "limit" was in 2009 when the account was locked and I had to hand over more ID than what a passport needed. It took a good 6 weeks or so to unfreeze the accont too. After 2009 though, no further problems.