Timeline for Papers, please: Can characters trapped in our reality acquire enough paperwork to be legal?
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| Apr 26, 2020 at 20:02 | comment | added | JBH | Cab drivers.... | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 6:10 | comment | added | o.m. | @Joshua, but who would order that examination? Imagine you're a health or welfare worker and there is a guy who claims to be an alien. You might order a mental examination to see if he is a dangerous nutcase or a harmless nutcase. Trying to prove that he is right could be career-ending. | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 19:12 | comment | added | Joshua | Indeed run the isotope ratios. When it comes back not exposed to fallout from 1945-1960 bomb tests that should always turn up now ... | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 4:37 | comment | added | thatgirldm | Going with this answer because it covers the most likely options most directly, though there are a lot of other good answers below. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 4:36 | vote | accept | thatgirldm | ||
| Jul 10, 2015 at 19:32 | comment | added | Necessity | @LindaJeanne Thats exactly what I was thought when I read the second bullet point in this answer. Probably the best way is to say that they have amnesia, though that would probably harder than I think it is from a bit of research | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 16:40 | comment | added | LindaJeanne | I wonder what would happen if a visitor from another world, who had figured out enough of how this one works to realize that the lack of documentation will be a serious problem, walked into a mental hospital and claimed they had no memory of who they were and what they were doing that day? | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 16:29 | comment | added | o.m. | On second thoughts, possibly most of the answers so far (including mine) might be missing the point. A friend from Africa is going through the process of getting German residency. Since he doesn't seek refugee status, they're much more concerned with who he is and will be than where he is from. A central question is if he can earn a living, now and on the long term. The papers which matter most are university degrees, not birth certificates. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 7:36 | comment | added | o0'. | "Imagine what happens when someone comes to the authorities and claims to be from another world" I assumed he "obviously" meant he wasn't to state it officially. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 5:55 | history | answered | o.m. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |