Can one fly domestically in the US with only a work permit as ID?
My girlfriend has a work permit. It doesn't expire for 4 more months. I told her to get an additional ID but she never did, so all she has is her work permit.
She's not a citizen of the US but she lives here. She pays about 500 dollars every few years to obtain a US government issued work permit which allows her to be employed but I don't fully understand it so I don't know if she can use that to fly.
I don't even know if she has a passport. She keeps saying she doesn't have one. She's stranded in LA. She lives in Missouri. I'm trying to buy her a plane ticket to come back home. If she has a passport, she didn't bring it. I asked her and she said well I have my work permit with me. No mention of a passport.
Will she still be able to get on a plane and fly within the us?
She does not have a visa (as stated previously). She kept calling her work permit a visa. She has a work permit that doesn't expire until next year.
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This page lists the forms of ID that are accepted by the US Transportation Security Administration for a domestic flight. A visa is not on the list. However:
Foreign government-issued passport
Is acceptable. Assuming she has a valid passport (presumably the one containing the visa), she can use that as ID.
Also note that a "Immigration and Naturalization Service Employment Authorization Card (I-766)" is an acceptable form of ID, if this is the document she possesses. It is hard to tell exactly what kind of "visa" she has (assuming she has not been taken by a scam). If you can update your question with a picture of it (with her personal information blacked out), we should be able to help you better.
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I have that same permit also. Obama made it possible for us who came at a young age illegally to be able to stay in this country legally to work and get a driver's lisence . Only thing is, it expires every two years and have to get it renwed for $475 , prices went up. Yes she can board the plane with it, I have before.
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