That's not actually not an ID card dumb as it seems. It's an IOU that says that a collection of documents that are enough to prove your identity to the government were produced to an agent. It's a cert.
Assuming the "standard path" in the US the pieces of your ID are your birth record, any court ordered name changes (like if you got married), your social security card, and a previous cert that ties the name to a photo.
I know it's pedantic but god damn it's annoying as hell that a passport doesn't actually prove anything or else you could always do $old_valid_passport + $valid_photo = $new_passport but nope. Sometimes you hit special cases that drop you into having to prove your identity from your ID documents all over again.
Assuming the "standard path" in the US the pieces of your ID are your birth record, any court ordered name changes (like if you got married), your social security card, and a previous cert that ties the name to a photo.
I know it's pedantic but god damn it's annoying as hell that a passport doesn't actually prove anything or else you could always do $old_valid_passport + $valid_photo = $new_passport but nope. Sometimes you hit special cases that drop you into having to prove your identity from your ID documents all over again.