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Re: by DanBC on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:58AM (#6133312)
You don't need a passport to leave a country. You need a passport to get into a country.

People who enter a country illegally and then claim asylum status are unlikely to be in any position to keep their business running.

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Re: by csomar on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:21AM (#6133439)
How hard is it to get a fake-passport and sneak through the airport?
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Re: by outworlder on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:27AM (#6133883)
Irrelevant.

Even if it were easy as a pie, OP is worried about being convicted of a 'crime' which is not considered a crime in most of the developed world. So, he has a chance of being granted asylum.

Faking a passport, however, IS a very serious crime and it would be something ridiculously stupid to do.

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Re: by drakeandrews on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:56AM (#6133649)
Assuming you have the original, non-biometric passport, access to materials and suitable printers, plotters etc and a handful of other passports of the appropriate nationality people don't mind being "recycled", quite a while.
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Re: by stevenbedrick on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:04AM (#6133708)
Very. And the consequences from getting caught are bad.
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Re: by bwb on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:54AM (#6133632)
Very hard.

You could go to the USA, Canada, or EU country embassy and see if they can help you with asylum etc.

I would recommend Canada.

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