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- Your first name
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- Your date of birth
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Please note that, by law, U.S. military IDs cannot be photographed and thus cannot be used for online testing.
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Acceptable Forms of ID
Please note: Test takers must present either an international passport or a government-issued photo ID issued by the United States of America, U.S. Territories, or Canada.
Common forms of acceptable identification include (but are not limited to):
- Passport book.
- Driver鈥檚 license.
- State- or province-issued ID card issued in the United States of America, a U.S. Territory, or Canada.
- U.S. Permanent Resident Card (Green Card).
- Canadian Permanent Resident Card.
- Certain Canadian health care benefit cards.
- Temporary, paper state ID/driver鈥檚 license (due to physical card being renewed). Temporary IDs must contain a photo and be presented in conjunction with an acceptable physical expired ID card.
The following items are NOT acceptable for taking the LSAT or LSAT Argumentative Writing: temporary ID without accompanying expired ID, Social Security card, Social Insurance card, birth certificate, credit card (including those with photo), ID expired for more than 3 months prior to your test date, photocopied ID, employee ID (even for government employees), student ID, or U.S. military ID card (Common Access Card or CAC 鈥� by law, U.S. military IDs cannot be photographed and thus cannot be used for online testing).
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