Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Can someone board a plane not leaving the US using a foreign passport?

A friend and I are planning a trip from Newark, New Jersey to Chicago. He does not have a drivers license. All he has is a foreign passport. Is this enough to get through the security measures at the airport? Don't they only need a picture ID? Are they going to ask him for more ID even though he is only traveling within the country?





I would really like to make sure before I spend hundreds of dollars on plane tickets. PLEASE only answer if you have some kind of idea, not because you want points.|||A foreign passport will suffice. If it didn't, there would be no opportunity for foreign tourists to take intra-country flights. All that your friend needs is a passport which matches the name on the ticket and everything will be fine.|||Sure he can, he is required to show a government issued id, and there is no better government issued id than a passport. This is what almost everyone from a foreign country uses for id when traveling within the US, after all most foreigners don't have state issued US driver's licenses.|||yes your friend can use a foreign passport. Actually the reason why they are asking for an identification is to make sure that the person using the airline ticket is the actual person. So any govt issued id or any passport is very acceptable. Yeah book those tickets now!!!|||a valid passport (of any country) is a "state issued ID" and acceptable....otherwise, how would foreign citizens travel between US airports?

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