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I thought you should never, ever give your passport to anyone, especially for collateral. Right?

Dunno, depending on your country they can be pretty easy to replace and they do tend to work quite well as collateral.

This entirely depends on your situation, for example I don't think there are many places where it'd be a huge deal for a white westerner to lose their passport.

Are you sure you're not conflating IDs with passports?

Though, yeah, in Germany at least it's quite easy to replace passports

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