Tuesday, February 23, 2021

ID Story

 This morning, N-TV here in Germany had a piece which puts a curious story out on asylum requests in Germany.

For 2020, roughly half of the 100,000 requests for asylum in Germany....were applications that had no passport or ID.

Roughly 2.3-percent of those who did have passports or IDs.....were counterfeit/fake.

In some cases, the individual did have some 'other' type of card on them (like a license or such).

A big deal?  The German authorities typically want positive identification on who you are.  So the element of a mystery 'guest' just doesn't make the process easy.  It just makes them more suspicious of your request and they end up spending more time on finding out your real identity.  

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