US Citizens do you now carry proof of citizenship with you?

Loren Pechtel said:

ZiprHead said:

scombrid said:

Real ID isn’t proof of citizenship. Still need passport.

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It is in Michigan.

Proof of U.S. citizenship​

The following documents can be presented as proof of U.S. citizenship to obtain a REAL ID credential:

• Valid U.S. passport or passport card
• Consular Report of Birth Abroad issued by the U.S. State Department (form FS-240, DS-1350 or FS-545)
• Certificate of Citizenship (form N-560 or N-561)
• Certificate of Naturalization (form N-550, N-570 or N-578)
• Certified birth certificate issued by the vital records office of the state of birth. Birth certificates can only be accepted if they have the following information:
• U.S. government unit (city, county, state, U.S. territory) that issued the record
• Applicant’s full name, date of birth, and place of birth
• Parents’ names (at least one parent must be listed)
• Date the record was filed with the registrar’s office
• Certification statement and signature from the registrar indicating the original record is on file with the registrar’s office
• Seal or stamp indicating the document is a certified record (not a photocopy)

NOTE:

• Delayed foreign birth certificates aren’t acceptable (these are issued to customers who were adopted from another country). These applicants are eligible to apply for a U.S. passport, passport card, or Certificate of Citizenship.
• Hospital birth certificates aren’t acceptable.
• Adoption records aren’t accepted as birth certificates.
• Puerto Rico birth certificates must have been issued on or after July 1, 2010

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That is showing how to prove citizenship, it does not say that it's the only path to get a RealID.

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You are right. Sorry.

It is Enhanced Driver's Licenses that convey citizenship.

MI, MN, NY, VT, and WA, all northern border states, offer enhanced driver’s licenses to serve as proof of identity and U.S. citizenship. These licenses meet the security standards of the REAL ID Act, are marked by the word “Enhanced”, and can have a yellow REAL-ID star at the upper corner. They can be used in place of a U.S. passport to cross a U.S. border.

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I remember when I was in US I was supposed to carry my foreign passport and other documents, I never did cause it's stupid.
Even before getting driver licence. Basically I carried student ID which means nothing to police.
When I got DL I was once stopped when I tried to "rob" the bank and asked for ID, he did not care for my citizenship.
That was the only time I had to show DL while not driving a car.

barbos said:

I remember when I was in US I was supposed to carry my foreign passport and other documents, I never did cause it's stupid.
Even before getting driver licence. Basically I carried student ID which means nothing to police.
When I got DL I was once stopped when I tried to "rob" the bank and asked for ID, he did not care for my citizenship.
That was the only time I had to show DL while not driving a car.

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Until the recent lunacy nobody cared about your citizenship unless you got in trouble with the law or were doing something that requires citizenship. I put the woman in HR into brain freeze by providing my passport for the standard work eligibility form. One from column A, one from column B. Passport is in both columns, it meets both requirements. "But you have to have two documents!" No, you need to prove two things. I'm clearly not the only one that it's happened to because the form has since been updated with a separate section listing documents which prove both things. Hey, you know I have a fair amount of foreign travel experience and you know I went through hoops of sponsoring a green card for my wife--think maybe I might know more about the edge cases than you do??