[busterarm]

I needed my birth certificate to open my first bank account. Although that's because I was a minor.

[toast0]

I've opened several bank accounts for my child. All they needed was the social security number and my photo id (and maybe my social security number too).

[busterarm]

You're trying to correlate events that are decades apart, in a thread where we're literally discussing a single administration's change in policy...