“This isn’t real” -ICEcuck
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Many others have pointed out multiple probably even more important issues with this. I'd just like to add that it's actually $30 to the state department and another $30 to the processing department (like the post office if you take it there) and another processing fee for the photograph.
Mine was closer to $100 and cannot be used for international air travel.
So unless you're planning a cruise or a land crossing, this is a $100 fee to try to avoid getting arrested.
You can take your own photograph or re-use a previous one. It's free to apply through the post office. Just $30 for the fee to issue one. That's all I paid for mine.
Edit: This is assuming you have a passport book already. If you don't, then yes, there's a $35 acceptance fee.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA - Randy Marsh
It won't stop them. Immigration and customs already had a large amount of unchecked power prior to this administration, but under this administration there isn't anything they care about. They've been murdering people in cold blood across multiple blue states for a while now.
Besides that, if people start panicking and trying this then the necessary venues that people have to go to for their first passport(you have to show up in person for your first passport) could become ICE targets or places they stalk. It's not exactly uncommon knowledge that conservatives tend to not bother getting passports either.
Holy shit that's so fucking cheap I paid like 200 aud for my Australian passport
That's because it's a passport card. Cards are only useful for crossing into Canada or Mexico, or for some carribian islands.
More importantly, it's not valid to use for entry via airplane anywhere, even if it's one of the above. So basically most useful for people that commute between regularly or are going on cruises. Or in this case as proof of citizenship.
Full passports are $130 USD. I renewed both in November.
Ahh righto, I assume you need a full passport for a card?
You can apply for a card without getting the book, or you can also apply for the book without getting the card. There's a combo deal where you can get both for slightly cheaper than if you get them individually.
If you already have a card, applying for a book counts as a "renewal" rather than a new application.
Not at all. And it's a little cheaper than my state ID (which is not a driver's license, just an ID) and lasts considerably longer (10 years like a normal passport instead of 2 for the state ID).
Its great value, if you don't already need a license and don't plan on doing any air travel.
Oh nice
When was that? My partner paid something like $400 or more last year.
Honestly you might be right on it being $400. I remember it being way more than what I thought would be reasonable and in the hundreds; not the specific number. I filled mine online in VIC with the passport authority late last year. Picked it up and did all the in person paperwork at my local post office. Bloody rip off aye!
Alternate title:
Give the government $30 to stop violating your civil liberties
Definitive proof of citizenship won't stop ICE from beating or killing you if you have an accent or non-white skin.
The admin is targeting white people. You might have heard of that white woman executed on false pretense recently, celebrated by leadership.
Framing as you do is both incorrect and prevents support to fix problems.
They're targeting anybody who challenges their authority, starting with people who look different (foreigners first)
what if i don't have an accent or non-white skin? they won't beat me, right?
They might still just execute you in the street if they think you're talking back to them shrug
Usually
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I'm 100% not showing my papers.
Yeah fuck this.
I have papers, they're holstered and chambered. there's about 17 pages of papers too.
They can still just detain you because they can steal it or say there’s no way to verify your passport or ID isn’t fraudulent without further investigation so how about you spend a few days or weeks in jail while we sort it out 😉
But yes it is still a good idea and won’t hurt
Having a passport card will definitely make it easier for the deportation official to release you after assault you, put you in handcuffs and take you to the station for speaking Spanish in a Mexican restaurant.
Do not do this if you are transgender or have an X gender marker.
Warnins should probably be bigger and up front, but that's just me
What a time to be alive.
YSK if ICE thinks you're too brown, they'll just say yours is fake and deport you anyway. It's already happened to US citizens.
Deadset. Which moron actually thinks mexican-looking peoples with actual passports are being approached on the streets and let go??
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If you have to prove you have rights then no one has rights.
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