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but I live near EWR and my office is right by BWI

Well, let's dismiss simple solutions because they wouldn't work for par4! I've made three flights in the past ten or twenty years which weren't to or from an airport near my home, against at least 200 that were.

Obviously, one would have to get some sort of secure ID to even document where one has lived for some qualifying amount of time. There could be other ways to obtain a secure ID that maybe could apply to you. But the home address thing is something they could just mail to you with a duplicate to the town police based upon your tax return. The cost would be whatever it takes a few programmer to come up with a mailing. Your local police could charge whatever it would cost them to defray their cost, plus maybe a little profit to the town, to make a secure ID.

You could get something like a security clearance, but if you've ever had one you probably know they're not without cost. (For me, at least the FBI interviewed people who lived across the street from where I lived growing up, which was ten or more years before the clearance was applied for.)

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That was my point, the trusted traveller system was run by an outside contractor. And there are too many agencies that conduct and hold security clearances. Not every agency has the data in the J Pass system so clearances are not "tranferable" between agencies. And at least one of the agencies that holds one of my clearances frowns upon showing your ID outside of their facilities (there are large signs to put your badge away as you exit).

So having an additional agency or, worst yet a private contracted agency, try to see what clearance you may hold is going to run into some pretty solid brick walls. In other words, filing for a getting a special ID to breeze through airports would add another government agency to the bloat that is security anyway.

And yes, they did interview people I went to school with 25 years earlier, but for a traveler ID the background could be more like the E-Quip system that's in use now for entry to federal (unsecure) facilities.

I just get frustrated, I've cut back on my business travel and have only had about 20 round trips this year and, while it used to be pretty standard procedures that you could learn and be ready to go, this year things are slowly getting more and more problimatical. They had 1 body scanner in ABQ in September, by October there were 3 or 4 and everyone was going through them. Apparently, not everyone understands "take everything, including paper, out of your pockets". I'm sure that todays trip will be a new exercise in what to do.

Just venting, I can't wait to see what they have at Kileen Wednesday when I fly back.