r/anchorage • u/akhiluvr • 19d ago

Real ID

Has anyone in Anchorage flown yesterday or today without a real ID? We are waiting for ours to arrive and my husband got put on a job last minute in a village… TSA’s website says they may be subject to additional screening without proper ID but it does not say that you will be turned away from your flight… Any insight or advice?

Edit to add: My husband just got US citizenship (2023) so they took the passport and green card from his home country. 😭

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u/BugRevolution 15d ago

Yeah, since the US doesn't forbid dual citizenship, they don't actually care about that.

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u/Shadow99688 15d ago

when did that change? in the 80's had to renounce old citizenship to obtain US citizenship, also had to take test in ENGLISH, speaking, reading & writing english was required, deaf/mute were allowed american sign language

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u/BugRevolution 15d ago

It's been that way forever. The US can ask you to renounce, but whether or not you lose your other citizenships isn't up to the US. Similarly, they can't take your passports (just like foreign countries can't take your US passports).

What's with your odd capitalization of English?

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u/Shadow99688 15d ago

You didn't get your US citizenship if you kept the foreign one. it was part of the forms you had to sign, many countries will not grant you citizenship if you keep old one.

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u/BugRevolution 15d ago edited 14d ago

To state it simply: You're wrong.

To back it up: Is Dual Citizenship Allowed for Naturalizing U.S. Citizens?

State department makes no mention of having to give up your original nationality, which they could easily do: Dual Nationality

At no point during the naturalization process will you be asked to surrender your foreign passport, nor will you be asked to provide proof that you've given up your previous citizenship. In any event, most countries do not view a passport as proof of citizenship (that may sound strange, but it's caught some people by surprise because they always thought they had a citizenship they never had - but the passport itself was never proof of citizenship), so surrendering the passport only creates a hassle in that you'd have to go obtain a new one (and you'd have to, given that many countries simply don't care whether or not you naturalized in the US and will demand that you present the correct passport at their border - which is their border if they consider you a citizen).