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I am no fool to believe that it is easy to implement this. No single country alone can even think about doing something like this. Since, international documents like passport are designed to meet a set of guidelines made by international organizations, something similar must happen to make this a reality.

If we are talking about it, let me put one more thing in perspective: the concept of International Residency.

International Resident means, a person while being citizen of one particular country, be allowed free movement across the globe without rights (like voting) in a foreign country. International Citizen means, a person should not be a citizen one country but of the world and should be allowed free movement and complete rights everywhere.

In my current concept, every person born in to this world will be given a card by their country which would contain a National ID Number and a Passport Number. Here, the National ID can be used for all national (internal) purposes; and Passport Number will be used all international (external) purposes (like travelling or purchasing in foreign country).

This in not an example of International Residency.

True International Residency will be created only when there is only one Identification number for both internal and external purposes. Abolishing internal national ID number is favor of unique passport number for every human in this world.

That shouldn’t be very difficult as a string of 7 alpha-numeric characters can give more than 78 billion+ unique IDs (A-Z, 0–9). Not to mention 8 characters = 2.8 trillion+ IDs; 9 characters = 101 trillion+ IDs; and so on.

This will allow a single database maintained and shared by all countries. No matter where you are or where you go, you are a Resident not a Tourist. Your medical records, driving status, credit report, bank details and identity moves with you. You are not required to register again with any country or get a new ID certification.

Countries can tag their additional data onto the common passport database like labor/employment status, etc.

In theory, this would also abolish the concept of dual citizenship, but if this is still required for some reason, just carry two cards.

So, what do you think about it?