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Poll: Would you accept to submit a scanned copy of your passport to an international agency/client?
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May 21, 2021

This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Would you accept to submit a scanned copy of your passport to an international agency/client?".

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 12:57
Miembro 2007
inglés al portugués
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Other May 21, 2021

I've never been asked as a freelancer (of course an employer collects a copy of your identity card when you are recruited). My passport is no longer valid and as I no longer need it to travel in the EU it’s more than likely that I’ll not ask for a new one any time soon (my traveling years are gone and I have no intention of traveling outside the EU). Anyway, if I’m really interested in working with someone, I’ll have no problem scanning my ID card.

Muriel Vasconcellos
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Reino Unido
Local time: 12:57
Miembro 2008
italiano al inglés
Too bad May 21, 2021

Teresa Borges wrote:

....my traveling years are gone and I have no intention of traveling outside the EU....


Too bad. So I won't be expecting a visit by you to London


Yetta Jensen Bogarde
 
Alexandra Speirs
Alexandra Speirs  Identity Verified
Local time: 13:57
italiano al inglés
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planes now flying to Portugal May 21, 2021

Tom in London wrote:

Teresa Borges wrote:

....my traveling years are gone and I have no intention of traveling outside the EU....


Too bad. So I won't be expecting a visit by you to London


But you can join the Brits who are now flocking to fly to Portugal to visit her and enjoy some genuine Pasteis de Nata, though the Lidl ones are not too bad ....


Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Muriel Vasconcellos
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 12:57
Miembro 2007
inglés al portugués
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Nothing beats... May 21, 2021

Alexandra Speirs wrote:

Tom in London wrote:

Teresa Borges wrote:

....my traveling years are gone and I have no intention of traveling outside the EU....


Too bad. So I won't be expecting a visit by you to London


But you can join the Brits who are now flocking to fly to Portugal to visit her and enjoy some genuine Pasteis de Nata, though the Lidl ones are not too bad ....


... real ones!

https://pasteisdebelem.pt/


expressisverbis
Alison Jenner
 
Wolfgang Schoene
Wolfgang Schoene  Identity Verified
Francia
Local time: 13:57
Miembro 2007
inglés al alemán
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Passport to agency... May 21, 2021

ProZ.com Staff wrote:

This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Would you accept to submit a scanned copy of your passport to an international agency/client?".

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Isch abe gar keine Passport...


 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Reino Unido
Local time: 12:57
Miembro 2008
italiano al inglés
Not May 21, 2021

Alexandra Speirs wrote:

But you can join the Brits who are now flocking to fly to Portugal...


I'm horrfied that you think I'm a Brit. I'm Irish.

[Edited at 2021-05-21 09:41 GMT]


Nikolay Novitskiy
 
Alexandra Speirs
Alexandra Speirs  Identity Verified
Local time: 13:57
italiano al inglés
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Irish May 21, 2021

Tom in London wrote:

Alexandra Speirs wrote:

But you can join the Brits who are now flocking to fly to Portugal...


I'm horrfied that you think I'm a Brit. I'm Irish.

[Edited at 2021-05-21 09:41 GMT]


I said join the Brits, as a Scot who is 25% Irish I would not presume anything of the kind!


 
Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Yetta Jensen Bogarde  Identity Verified
Dinamarca
Local time: 13:57
Miembro 2012
inglés al danés
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To get back to the topic May 21, 2021

I do not like to submit such personal documents

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Christine Andersen
frz
Gibril Koroma
expressisverbis
Fatine Echenique
María José Domínguez Camba
 
Christine Andersen
Christine Andersen  Identity Verified
Dinamarca
Local time: 13:57
Miembro 2003
danés al inglés
+ ...
It is completely unnecessary May 21, 2021

If the client wanted me to visit, I could agree to make travel arrangements, but they still do not need to see my passport.
They could even buy me a ticket to travel without seeing my passport.

They can see relevant credentials - my exam certificates for instance - and they can check me up in the Danish business register, but my personal documents are not necessary for a working relationship, either online or in person.


Gibril Koroma
expressisverbis
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Peter Simon
Fatine Echenique
frz
María José Domínguez Camba
 
@Tom May 21, 2021

Tom in London wrote:
I'm horrfied that you think I'm a Brit. I'm Irish.

Given that you choose to live in London, why would you be horrfied if someone thought you were British? (I did.)


expressisverbis
neilmac
 
Peter Shortall
Peter Shortall  Identity Verified
Reino Unido
rumano al inglés
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Getting to know you May 21, 2021

Ice Scream wrote:

Tom in London wrote:
I'm horrfied that you think I'm a Brit. I'm Irish.

Given that you choose to live in London, why would you be horrfied if someone thought you were British? (I did.)


I knew Tom's Irish, as he mentioned it in a post I read once. And I don't even follow these forums that much!

As for yourself, Chris, I didn't initially recognise you in your new guise when you posted that excellent "SpongerZ/KlownZ/MugZ" reply to my question the other week, I should have got it from the trademark waggish humour. It's not the most obvious of progressions, is it, from furry feline photobomber to nihilistic Norwegian nightmarishness? But equally alliterative, I'll give you that.

To make this post at least vaguely on-topic, I'll add that I wouldn't send a scan of my passport to an agency/client. There, that's the "relevance" box ticked.


 
Irish and Irish. Minefield. May 21, 2021

Peter Shortall wrote:
I knew Tom's Irish, as he mentioned it in a post I read once.

I thought Tom was Northern Irish. Oops.

I wouldn't want to send a customer a scan of my passport either, even though I now use my passport photo as my profile pic.


Peter Shortall
 
Edith van der Have
Edith van der Have
Países Bajos
Local time: 13:57
Miembro 2016
inglés al neerlandés
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Yes, but ... May 21, 2021

... with my picture and social security number removed

Kitty Brussaard
 
Muriel Vasconcellos
Muriel Vasconcellos  Identity Verified
Estados Unidos
Local time: 04:57
Miembro 2003
español al inglés
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Other May 21, 2021

Like Teresa, I don't plan to renew my passport at this time. I would have no trouble sharing a copy of it with a legitimate agency, whether a travel agency or an international employer.

 
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