XPost: aus.legal, misc.legal, uk.legal   
   From: reality@check.it   
      
   "McGyver"  wrote in message   
   news:h2iagv$to3$1@news.albasani.net...   
   > "Bill J."  wrote in message   
   > news:baeca5b8-029e-4871-b94d-933705899f98@s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...   
   >> I have posted this question elsewhere, but the responses I've gotten   
   >> all related to illegal fake ID.   
   >>   
   >> Here's the hypothetical situation: a hillbilly in his early 20's   
   >> rebels against his family, and walks down out of the mountains wanting   
   >> to get work in the city.   
   >>   
   >> He has no papers, identification, or records of any kind at all,   
   >> period.   
   >>   
   >> He has no relatives or acquaintances who will talk to any kind of   
   >> government official or outsider.   
   >>   
   >> How does this lifelong resident of the US get ID that will let him let   
   >> him work legally? I am looking for the steps he would have to take to   
   >> legally get ID, not get fake ID.   
   >   
   > This problem has been faced by every state government many times.  There   
   > really are hillbillies like you describe.  There are procedures.  I have   
   > no recent knowledge about the procedures, but I suppose the methods from   
   > the olden days should still work.  First, he needs an address.  Second, he   
   > should arrange for some incoming mail.  3 pieces of mail addressed to him   
   > by name and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, amounted to   
   > identification as recently as the 1960's and might be a viable starting   
   > point today.   
      
      
   Right, because no one could send themselves mail addressed to Mickey Rodent.   
      
   >   
   > Then he would use those letters to work the passport procedure describe by   
   > Deadrat in this thread.  I didn't know about that passport procedure, but   
   > naturally, the feds would have a solution,   
      
   Riiiight. Because "naturally" government always finds a solution to their   
   own bureaucracy.   
      
      
      
   > because that sort of person exists and must have been dealt with thousands   
   > of times.   
   >   
   > Another approach would be to join the military.  I suppose they normally   
   > require ID, but I expect the U.S. Army would find a solution.   
      
   They'll put whatever name you want on your bodybag.   
      
   Parts is parts.   
      
   > Finally, social services people deal with the ID problem all the time.  A   
   > local welfare agency, in a place where hillbillies occasionally walk in,   
   > would have knowledge about how to work the system.  If he asks a few   
   > Salvation Army employees, he is likely to find someone who knows the   
   > procedures.   
   >   
   > This answer must not be relied on as legal advice for the reasons posted   
   > here:  http://mcgyverdisclaimer.blogspot.com .   
      
   So you finally changed your fallacious disclaimer ... after years   
   of being too proud to admit the bogus premise you initially   
   asserted.   
      
   > And I am not your attorney.   
      
   Nor shall you ever be.   
      
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