Laminating Documents

[michiel kerkhof]

As we have to show documents so many times I'm wondering if there are any legal objections against laminating your official documents like drivers licence M/C registration and conformity document.They are already been looked at so many times that they start losing bits and pieces and get filthy from touching of course.But dont want to end up in problems at a border for having laminated them.Anyone got a sort of official; answer on this subject?

Michiel From Belgium

[Hemuli]

Originally Posted by michiel kerkhof

As we have to show documents so many times I'm wondering if there are any legal objections against laminating your official documents like drivers licence M/C registration and conformity document.They are already been looked at so many times that they start losing bits and pieces and get filthy from touching of course.But dont want to end up in problems at a border for having laminated them.Anyone got a sort of official; answer on this subject?

Michiel From Belgium

I took good quality colour copies from all of my documents and laminated them.
I have shown my copied driver´s license to a police countless times and have had no problems

[Warin]

Australian driving/riding licenses are allready laminated. And the size of a credit card. Laminating also helps with water proofing. I can see no reason why laminating something should invalidate it, as long as it is not damaged and both sides are visible.
I agree with copying where possible - some documents have water marks or other things that don't copy well. But I copy those anyway .. if someone notices I should be able to produce the original. Where possible I reduce the copy to credit card size to keep with the other things.

[Big Yellow Tractor]

Just a little word of warning; I used to laminate my tax discs. On one occasion, it got eaten by my laminator and scrunged up into a lump of smoking plastic snot.

Probably safer to laminate copies and keep the originals in a quality waterproof document pouch.

[Smudger]

Good quality colour laminates got my bike into the US when I shipped it over to New York from the UK and across every border from there north to Alaska & all the way down to Argentina.

I had the originals with me safely tucked away just in case as I was unsure at first, but if anything, once you have a good colour photo copy laminate the UK V5 vehicle registration document looks even more official & is so much more robust.

I wasn't so lucky with my driver's licence as it was a little skew-whiff. Clearly required more practice on the laminator!

[michiel kerkhof]

Thanks guys,I'll laminate copies of the documents and keep the originals waterproofbagged in a safe place ....just in case!

[ThirtyOne]

Was just pondering this the other day! Great tip!