State Dept Adding Intrusive, Semi-Impossible Questionnaire For US Passport Applications
Monday, April 25, 2011 at 10:14AM 
By Cory Doctorow [Boing Boing]
Olga sez, "The U.S. Dept of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants: proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history, personal details of siblings; mother's addresses prior to your birth; any "religious ceremony" around time of birth, circumstances of birth including names (as well as addresses/phone numbers) of persons present, & more. Failure to answer can mean denial of passport, & govt reserves right to use this info for 'routine uses.'"
It seems likely that only some, not all, applicants will be required to fill out the new questionnaire, but no criteria have been made public for determining who will be subjected to these additional new written interrogatories. So if the passport examiner wants to deny your application, all they will have to do is give you the impossible new form to complete.
It's not clear from the supporting statement, statement of legal authorities, or regulatory assessment submitted by the State Department to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) why declining to discuss one's siblings or to provide the phone number of your first supervisor when you were a teenager working at McDonalds would be a legitimate basis for denial of a passport to a U.S. citizen.
You've got the rest of today to submit your comments on this proposal. Lots of additional material at the link below.
State Dept. wants to make it harder to get a passport
(Image: US Passport, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from damian613's photostream)
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Similar insanity was announced in the U.K. with respect to air travel. If you would not, or could not, specify where you would be throughout the journey (perhaps because you were travelling on a whim, or were undecided about ones itinerary) then you may not be allowed to depart. Utter madness. It has since been cancelled on grounds of infeasibility and lack of money. Similar plans to record details of every phone call, text and email have also been abandoned. Politicians have no idea what is practical to implement ...
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