Carry Your Passport From Today Through Sunday 18th

[Rinrada]

Here in the UK we must by LAW always carry around our Tufty Club Identification Card.

I am always a bit worried since mine expired in 1958

[Crossy]

I've been travelling all around the world but never heard of the requirement to carry my passport around all the time, but then what do I know...

Law in Japan:: forgieners must their passport with them at all times

And in Italy, Belgium, Turkey and Korea. PP or local ID required.

Hmm, quite a few places actually.

[Crossy]

Here in the UK we must by LAW always carry around our Tufty Club Identification Card.

I am always a bit worried since mine expired in 1958

I've still got mine, but I don't carry it around any more.

[pautai]

Would this ever happen in a western country? At least not where i'm from. There the police have more important issues to take care of than harassing tourists who spend their long saved money on new year or any other day...

But then, this is not my country...

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yes it happens all the time in Paris !

the French are hot on passports and ID checks

[markuk]

For those of us who reside..

Just carry your Thai driving licence, that usually does the job, and if it is a 5 year one they know you have been around for a good while. Plus it is laminated already.

For those who don't reside.... go home, bloody tourists!

Bash

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Well Said!!

[lampard10]

I must agree with any anti-terrorist mesures how ever long it takes. After all it's only a couple of minutes normally,compared with cutting your life short if these ba3tards get through. And it's no good saying ' Do I look like a terrorist?' if you do, in all probability your not.

[frenchFARANGbkk]

Would this ever happen in a western country? At least not where i'm from. There the police have more important issues to take care of than harassing tourists who spend their long saved money on new year or any other day...

But then, this is not my country...

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yes it happens all the time in Paris !

the French are hot on passports and ID checks

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Mostly if you come from Africa or middle east...

[roscoe]

Did they publish the targeted areas so that the criminaly inclined would know where and when farang passports would be in abundance to purloin??

[MP5]

Did they publish the targeted areas so that the criminaly inclined would know where and when farang passports would be in abundance to purloin??  

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This article might help shine some light. Just because you have a passport from country 'A' doesn't mean you are a citizen or resident of that country. Your documents could be forged or illegally obtained.

Peters says he won't help Government identify undesirables

New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters says he will not help the Government identify any more undesirable foreigners who have entered New Zealand.

Mr Peters has been tormenting the Government in recent weeks by identifying visitors to New Zealand whose past lives do not fit the Government's criteria for residency.

Last week Mr Peters revealed that former Iraqi government minister Amer Mahdi Al-Khshali was in New Zealand.

Yesterday Mr Al-Khshali said in a statement through his Auckland lawyer that his life had been put in danger after he was named by Mr Peters in Parliament in "an abuse of the New Zealand parliamentary process for political gain".

Prime Minister Helen Clark said Mr Peters has strengthened Mr Al-Khshali's legal rights by naming him.

Helen Clark said Mr Peters should hand over any further names he has so the Government can deal with them and remove any undesirable visitors.

Mr Peters told National Radio this morning that he would not be handing over names of more undesirable people in New Zealand to Helen Clark and Immigration Minister Paul Swain.

"For five long years I have been sending files to his predecessor Lianne Dalziel and to this minister... as have other informants... and never once have I ever received a reply," Mr Peters said.

The Government was trying to divert responsibility for its failure to have strong border controls, he told National Radio.

Mr Peters said the Government had been warned about corruption and failed to act because it was a "soft touch".

"The Bangkok office is a sorry, sick mess. What you have got there is trafficking people for money and we are told that everything is above board. Frankly no one is going to believe that."

Mr Peters said he knew of more cases, but refused to immediately disclose them. Later today he would continue to use Parliament to hold the Government accountable, he said.

Helen Clark said she did not believe Mr Peters' claims there were fundamental problems with the visa approvals process.

"Two people out of 2.25 million visitors who come here every year. If that's the size of the problem I think you'd have to agree it's not a massive one," she told her post-cabinet press conference.

On Sunday Mr Peters identified another former Iraqi official living in New Zealand.

He said the man, Fakhri Sabri Mohammed, was the former mayor of Anbar district, which includes rebel hotspot Fallujah.

But Mr Mohammed, 63, said he was a whistleblower who fled Saddam Hussein's regime in fear for his life, arriving in New Zealand as a refugee in March 2003 with his wife and two daughters.

On Thursday Mr Peters named a man he claimed was once a member of Saddam's elite palace guard, Isaac Meti Yousef Jago.

Earlier in the week his disclosures led to the cancellation of a visitor permit issued to a former Iraqi ambassador.