This is somewhat off topic for cypherpunks, but alt.forgery is dead, so cypherpunks is probably the nearest group. Suppose (hypothetically) an American resident cypherpunk had a hypothetical friend who is most unlikely to obtain an American visa. Now the standard way of dealing with situation is for an American friend to get a certified birth certificate of someone born in America, concoct some photo ID, send it to the out-of-America friend, and then the out-of-America friend comes in through Montego Bay or some similar point where there is lots of tourist traffic. But the thought struck me that this might not work for some one who hypothetically has a foreign appearance and a truly terrible accent. Now a fake greencard would probably work, but greencards have age and sex etc encoded on them, and conceivably they check them against a database, in which case it would be necessary to obtain the greencard number of a real person of the right age and sex, which is not easy. Any suggestions? Surely lots of people have dealt with this problem already. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com