daniels27 said:Difficult these days. How about all the fingerprints and face scans? Many airports more even have faced control. No more checks for documents after security, no boarding pass scan. Just a face control at the gate.
Best you can do is get a new passport with a new name. Then do using the old one. But so many times when you need a visa or ETA, they ask for all other identities. What you gonna write there? Nothing and then go to jail upon arrival when they scan your fingers?
If you are ok not to travel anymore except domestic, it is quite easy. Just go to Thailand or something and disappear. Or Schengen. Or the US. You can even live there locally and pay all in cash and accumulate wealth on you brother's account or in bitcoin.
There are many people living undocumented. It still is possible even in the EUSSR. Just don't get caught by the police for doing stupid bangs.
I would think fingerprints and face scan cross-referencing are to catch criminals who are on specific/centralized database lists. And those arch-evil types should be caught.
I am more speaking about someone who just wants to begin a new life, has not done anything criminal or nefarious (like my friend at the beginning of this post.) He will probably have a civil (money) judgement against him because of a greedy ex wife, maybe even end up with a minor civil contempt warrant in the UK for ignoring a court summons, but I cannot imagine it would put him on Interpol's radar?
So if he had a new life, new name, new supporting documents, could he not go ahead a life the quiet life you describe (maybe he cannot go back to the UK)?