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FWIW a PAN card is a photo id document that has a tax payer identification number. You can use it to open bank accounts too.<p>Cash deposits into a bank above a certain amount need a PAN number.<p>It is widely used as an id document in India (where a passport or voter id document was once used).<p>I didn't know people without Indian citizenship could get PAN cards.<p>PS. One way of handling Indian bureaucracy is by hiring a middleman (say a tax consultant) who handles the necessary formalities, including bribes and leg work.<p>India is what India is.