Palau Digital Residency ID - To Check in at a Quest Diagnostics Location?
Attempt #26 to use the Palau digital residency ID.
I tried to use the Palau ID to check in to a Quest Diagnostics location in Las Vegas to have blood drawn for some routine testing.
Result: SUCCESSFUL.
https://www.malakoutilaw.com/palau-digital-residency-id-to-check-in-at-a-quest-diagnostics-location
#mobilitymeme Monday 
Ultimately, history never sides with the “papers, please” bootlickers.
Not so long ago, "prepper culture" used to be viewed as an edgy, paranoid, sorta right winger thing not too many people were into.
Now, this Reuters article claims 20M Americans are preppers, including "people considered left-of-center politically." Take away the negative stigmas, and prepping culture is just part of a philosophy of self-sufficiency, freedom, and non-reliance on government.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/prepping-disaster-diversifies-more-americans-lose-trust-2024-03-09/
Mobility prepping is the extension of short-distance bug out prepping, and a new frontier of prepper culture.
Being able to bug out of your city, state, or country immediately if necessary. This requires birth certificates & marriage certificates, apostilles, valid IDs, citizenships, residencies, passports, & bitcoin. To be prepared in 2025, these go right next to the med kit, firearm, ammo, multi-tool, aquatics, and canned foods. 1) bug-in, 2) bug-out, and 3) country exit each require different (but partially overlapping) tools and different set of preparedness heuristics. 
Regarding the hypothetical consequences of no birthright citizenship, would INA 237(a) even apply to “aliens” born in the United States?
They were not “admitted to” the United States.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1227&num=0&edition=prelim 
AUSTRALIAN LAWMAKER CLAIMS INABILITY TO RENOUNCE AFGHAN CITIZENSHIP
Article 44 of the Australian constitution prohibits foreign citizens (including dual citizens) from serving in Parliament.
“Payman said she had tried to renounce her Afghan citizenship in 2021. She explained the Taliban takeover prevented the Afghan Embassy from finalising her application. She urged Hanson to take up the matter with the Taliban.”
—> Opt-out ability is nearly as important as opt-in ability (perhaps AS important).
https://x.com/parvizmalakouti/status/1881033323721703692?s=46&t=6tY61DeU36AfeOwpVn9Mmg
Quick & dirty cheat sheet (published by the EU) of passports & travel docs issued by different countries.👇
Dozens of them are not issued exclusively to citizens of the country, or at all to citizens.
You can avoid disclosing your home address all over the place by using your U.S. passport card instead of your driver license/state ID for official purposes within the U.S.
The card is the same size as a driver license and fits easily in the wallet.
#mobilitymeme Monday 
10s of millions with enough immigration info to be dangerous; only thousands with enough info to know how it actually works.
Eventually large mobility content creators will bitterly realize it was a big mistake to use “passport” and “citizenship” interchangeably for years in thousands of content pieces and will have to start editing old articles en masse so they make some sense for readers moving forward.
Another FBI background check (IdHS) successfully challenged and updated today to reflect an expungement. ✅
Attempt #24 to use the Palau digital residency ID
Use case: to use the Palau ID to enable deposits, withdrawals, and trading on Binance crypto exchange (KYC)
Result: Unsuccessful. ☹️
Full field report 👇
#crypto #kyc #Palau #Binance #documentdependence
Each time I run across a former classmate in the course of practice, I'm reminded of the line "Grades are golden but personality is platinum."
Someone told me this when I was a young student, before the price of gold overcame that of platinum. 😁
12 years on from law school, I have a vague recollection of how academically impressive (or not) many of my classmates were, but I have a CRYSTAL CLEAR recollection of how friendly, willing to help, and pleasant (or not) each of them were to me and others.
The latter sticks out "like a bright star in the night sky" in my mental image of the individual. I suspect it's the same for everyone else.
Classmates who said hello and were willing to share a note, a file, an outline, explain a point, give intel on a prof, inform you of an opportunity, lend a charger, or make an introduction.
These were platinum people and I remember.
People remember how they feel talking or dealing with you, above everything else about you.
By the way, those same qualities apply in the professional world after graduation.
Funny how the easiest task for building your professional network might also be the most important. 
If you don’t have 2-3 certified copies of your birth certificate in your possession, you are setting yourself up for a future #documentdependence bottleneck that could halt your immigration process when you need it most.
If there’s a stamp, seal and fee, you should probably order three.
#freedomofmovement #citizenship #residency
Sports fans who are also into FOIA and government transparency might get a kick out of this.
This line from journalist Jason Leopold’s “FOIA Friday” email today about basketball legend Bill Walton’s FBI file made me literally LOL.👇
“The FBI’s summary of the interview noted that Walton is ‘a very soft-spoken individual who appears to have little regard for dates or times.’”
Those who follow basketball know about Walton’s legendary loquaciousness.
I can imagine Walton holding the FBI agents hostage, rambling on and on about whimsical ideas while the agents start regretting their decision to set the meeting.
RIP #BillWalton
P.S. Yes, when someone passes, they lose their right to privacy in the documents the U.S. govt has on them (except medical info), and you can make a FOIA request for their FBI file, as a member of the public 
Palai Digital Residency ID to Request Georgia State Background Check?
Attempt #23 to use the Palau digital residency ID.
I made a Georgia state (crime information center) background check request using the Palau digital residency ID.
Result: SUCCESSFUL.
(Link below)
#palau #Georgia #backgroundcheck #documentdependence
The FBI IdHS of a person with no criminal history whatsoever will read:
"A SEARCH OF THE FINGERPRINTS PROVIDED BY THIS INDIVIDUAL HAS REVEALED NO PRIOR ARREST DATA AT THE FBI. THIS DOES NOT PRECLUDE FURTHER CRIMINAL HISTORY AT THE STATE OR LOCAL LEVEL." nostr:note1rdes5kw5sz8uezfyeh5zlghq8n3ypzf5pfshlhev7x75w0vfes8qqpvjua