Comments on: How WHTI Affects You http://www.howtovanish.com/2009/06/how-whti-affects-you/ Learn how to protect your personal and financial privacy. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Beth http://www.howtovanish.com/2009/06/how-whti-affects-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Beth Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:26:11 +0000 http://www.howtovanish.com/?p=43#comment-1210 I have heard that if your passport (or anything else) is supposed to "talk" and it doesn't, you may have a huge headache. The laws for passports DO NOT require a social security number -- they do require your "TIN." That's how they stated it - TIN - with no discussion of what that means. They cannot ask for SS#, so they try to fool peeps into it instead. A TIN is a taxpayer id number which has been requested by someone for the sole use of reporting tax info as an alien self-employed person. Do NOT confuse this with your social security number. My suggestion is leave the field blank, which is what those without a TIN must do. Attach a copy of the 26 USC 6039E law to your application, with the line (b)(1) highlighted and a note stating that you don't have a TIN. When you submit the forms just be matter of fact about not having one, like it's normal not to have a TIN -- which it is -- except many people have been told it really means enter your ss#. If asked, just show your copy of the law, and say you just don't have a TIN number, "whatever that is." I have heard that if your passport (or anything else) is supposed to “talk” and it doesn’t, you may have a huge headache. The laws for passports DO NOT require a social security number — they do require your “TIN.” That’s how they stated it – TIN – with no discussion of what that means. They cannot ask for SS#, so they try to fool peeps into it instead. A TIN is a taxpayer id number which has been requested by someone for the sole use of reporting tax info as an alien self-employed person. Do NOT confuse this with your social security number. My suggestion is leave the field blank, which is what those without a TIN must do. Attach a copy of the 26 USC 6039E law to your application, with the line (b)(1) highlighted and a note stating that you don’t have a TIN. When you submit the forms just be matter of fact about not having one, like it’s normal not to have a TIN — which it is — except many people have been told it really means enter your ss#. If asked, just show your copy of the law, and say you just don’t have a TIN number, “whatever that is.”

]]> By: teresa http://www.howtovanish.com/2009/06/how-whti-affects-you/comment-page-1/#comment-905 teresa Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:13:36 +0000 http://www.howtovanish.com/?p=43#comment-905 as i understand, these passport cards have RFIDs embedded. i've seen a lot of ways to disable the RFID (including smacking with a hammer). i long used a passport as my sole form of ID; unfortunately, it's gone missing. i'd stick with the booklet type--unless they now also have RFIDs--then smacking with a hammer might not be such a bad idea! as i understand, these passport cards have RFIDs embedded.

i’ve seen a lot of ways to disable the RFID (including smacking with a hammer).

i long used a passport as my sole form of ID; unfortunately, it’s gone missing.

i’d stick with the booklet type–unless they now also have RFIDs–then smacking with a hammer might not be such a bad idea!

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