ID.meReviews 42,894

I'm trying to go on to the patent office website and they didn't make sure that their ID me in process functioned properly. If you're trying to make a payment you can get to the point where you can look at putting in your credit card information and actually put in your credit card information but it won't populate the payment option it won't populate the inquiry as to the application number. It just merely isn't there. So I get on the phone I call I wait for half an hour after beating the website for 3 hours and she's like oh you got to finish the ID me thing but it gave me like four options to identify myself and I selected two different options. All but no you have to do the ID me. So while she's on the phone with me watching her end she walks me through website
I've already done the ID me for other websites, so I plug it in and tell those two options magically appear on the page that I've gone over 100 times. Literally 100 times. They're just two options that are magically there what's your application number and the fee schedule. I plug in my application number tada! There's my patent pending. I've got some fees that I've got to pay I go to select the fees they enter it to my cart I go to pay and the credit card that I've entered in before the ID me miraculously populates. So the text that idb didn't go through to make sure that it worked properly with the website there's nothing in there that says oh you need to go back to the ID anything there's nothing that says this is required. It goes ahead and let you mess around with it for 3 hours so that you can feel stupid because they are Sloppy and they suck at their job. If you can find a way around using ID me do it. Or if you have to use it just assume that it's lazy people that suck at their job.

It took 2 days to use recreation.gov and ID me to get a national park pass.
The two platforms do not communicate, explain error messages or help in anyway to solve issues that just give you a spinning wheel and then time out. You have to go to Google to trouble shoot the hopeless intergration.

Serves a necessary purpose. Allows access to most government sites and many others, with one set of entries for your identity. In this one safe place

I verified with ID.me about 4-5 years ago. My password was still good to log on with, but they wanted to verify my data all over again. With passports and drivers' licenses lasting about 10 years each, and a SS card lasting your entire life, I do not fully comprehend why the repeat verification process was necessary. Then they rejected my passport. It was the same passport they accepted originally. Said the name did not match my name. That was a lie. A month later they accepted the same passport, and the same document uploaded for it, and the same passport they already had on file from before. That month of delay meant I could not download my SS 1099 to give to my CPA for my April 15 2025 income taxes. So I was late getting it to her. No, I am not a happy camper.