I wrote:
Photo Licences are NOT compulsory.
All you need to have if accessing a security controlled airport is an ASIC.
It is the ASIC which is required after 31 December not a photographic licence.
The fees she said were for the issuing of the ASIC and the background checks required, no fees for a photo licence.
UnderneathTheRadar wrote:
Jetracer
Please don't believe a word you were told by CASA - either you or they have it the wrong way around.
By 1 January - you MUST have an AVID. The process for applying for this means that you will also be issued with a Photo ID - so I guess she was technically correct but only very technically. If you had a photo id from before March 05 then you won't have an AVID.
By 1 January - you MUST have and DISPLAY an ASIC if you are airside at a SECURITY CONTROLLED AERODROME.
The AVID process includes a police check but not an immigration status check. The issuing of a AVID will also include giving you a photo license.
UnderneathTheRadar,
I was not talking about the requirement to have an AVID or ASIC.
I was talking purely in regard to a photographic licence. If you already hold an ASIC then you do not require a photo licence, and if you did 'want' one, then it is free.
IF however you do NOT have an ASIC, then the fees apply and you will be issued a photographic licence also (once they have your photo on database from the AVID/ASIC application.)
Didnt I write that you need an AVID/ASIC after December 31?? .....
Regards,
JetRacer