NO smiling when taking passport picture.
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NO smiling when taking passport picture.
This has to be the most stupid thing i've read this morning.
http://channels.aimtoday.com/pf/stor...0739026246.htm
http://channels.aimtoday.com/pf/stor...0739026246.htm
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Originally Posted by flyromeo3
This has to be the most stupid thing i've read this morning.
http://channels.aimtoday.com/pf/stor...0739026246.htm
http://channels.aimtoday.com/pf/stor...0739026246.htm
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well, it pretty much explains the reasoning right here..
i don't see what the problem is..
Smiling "distorts other facial features, for example your eyes, so you're supposed to have a neutral expression. ... The most neutral face is the most desirable standard for any type of identification,'' said Angela Aggeler, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, which handles travel-document guidelines.
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Hmm.
Well, here's a question for you.
It's a part of our ancient legal heritage that adults do not go about in the world covering their faces, because of the idea that we always have a right to know to whom we're speaking and dealing, and the possible need to identify that individual later.
How do we deal with this law and heritage when taking passport photographs and drivers license photographs for cloistered Muslim women? I'm assuming if you're a cloistered Muslim woman that you wouldn't be allowed to drive, anyway, but I guess there's a chance.
Well, here's a question for you.
It's a part of our ancient legal heritage that adults do not go about in the world covering their faces, because of the idea that we always have a right to know to whom we're speaking and dealing, and the possible need to identify that individual later.
How do we deal with this law and heritage when taking passport photographs and drivers license photographs for cloistered Muslim women? I'm assuming if you're a cloistered Muslim woman that you wouldn't be allowed to drive, anyway, but I guess there's a chance.
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Originally Posted by George Knighton
Hmm.
Well, here's a question for you.
It's a part of our ancient legal heritage that adults do not go about in the world covering their faces, because of the idea that we always have a right to know to whom we're speaking and dealing, and the possible need to identify that individual later.
How do we deal with this law and heritage when taking passport photographs and drivers license photographs for cloistered Muslim women? I'm assuming if you're a cloistered Muslim woman that you wouldn't be allowed to drive, anyway, but I guess there's a chance.
Well, here's a question for you.
It's a part of our ancient legal heritage that adults do not go about in the world covering their faces, because of the idea that we always have a right to know to whom we're speaking and dealing, and the possible need to identify that individual later.
How do we deal with this law and heritage when taking passport photographs and drivers license photographs for cloistered Muslim women? I'm assuming if you're a cloistered Muslim woman that you wouldn't be allowed to drive, anyway, but I guess there's a chance.
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Originally Posted by Grand Moff Tark_0
Well here in Canada(maybe i should say Quebec for the driving part) when muslim women come to our store (photo store) and ask us to do passeport picture, or driver licenses picture we simply ask them to take off the chaddar and they do it... they usually understand.