i-summons

After 13 years of living in this country it seems that the legal system may finally be catching up with the Internet. Yes folks, today I was actually able to excuse myself from jury duty by submitting my alien resident number instead of mailing in a copy of my green card - something I've had to do pretty much every year for the last eight years. When I first got a US drivers license it took me almost an entire year to get the photo ID while they checked my legal status, now it seems my local county can actually check my alien registration ID number against federal databases - well I assume they can, we'll see if it actually works. And all this from the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Yeah right - fingers crossed.