Acceptable Documents

This should be a starting point for a assurers who want to find out wether presented documents are acceptable and valid. Of course this strongly depends on the nationality of the person to be assured, so feel free to add resources for your own country if your country is not listed here. I have made a quite detailed document for germany if you want an example, but I think even a simple list of document kinds of your country will be better than nothing.

IMHO it makes sense to distinguish primary and secondary documents. A primary document is goverment issued document with the explicit purpose of proofing one's identity and at least some restistance against simple forgeries like colour copiers. These are typical identity cards or passports. Secondary documents may be other documents which are suitable to prove an identity. If a person can only show secondary documents I'd consider to request at least three or four of them before assuring him/her.

There is a wikipedia article about which countries use identity cards (which are always considered primary documents) that shows several images of id cards and may be used as a starting point for further research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_identity_cards_by_country