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[seanmcdirmid]

Driver licenses are useless as IDs abroad.

[kissickas → seanmcdirmid]

I live outside of the US for most of the year and can say that my driver's license is not at all useless as an ID.

In fact, I have been at police checkpoints in two countries where they refused to see my passport and specifically requested that I present my driver's license - but these were both when I was driving, of course.

[nwh → seanmcdirmid]

An Australian one is fine in the UK, you can even drive using one.

[mapleoin → nwh]

That's pretty amazing how Australians can use a driver's license to drive a car.

[cageface → seanmcdirmid]

They will actually sometimes accept them here in Vietnam for various things but Vietnam is still kind of the wild west legally. Certainly not a good idea to count on it.

[seanmcdirmid → cageface]

They are useless in China, but mine expired 8 years ago.