Passport attack vectors - threats to the ability of someone to obtain, renew, or possess a valid passport from their country of citizenship.

By my count, there are 9:

1. Your govt cancels/revokes your passport (ex. U.S. & Edward Snowden)

2. Someone steals or confiscates your passport (ex. tourist traveling or human traffickers)

3. You lose your passport (at home or abroad)

4. Your govt is too strained, inept, corrupt or backlogged to timely create or renew your passport (ex. Venezuela)

5. Your passport is with a foreign consulate awaiting a visa stamp while you need to travel urgently

6. You can't renew your passport b/c you're seeking asylum elsewhere and to preserve your claim, you can't avail yourself of the protections or benefits of your home country

7. Someone (possibly a border agent) damages or destroys your passport

8. Your govt. challenges your natz eligibility when you try to renew your passport (ex. Hungarian simplified natz)

9. A court or government agency demands surrender of your passport (ex. as a condition of bail).

So far, I've had clients dealing with six of the nine.

@snowden

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