09.04.08
Driver’s License? Good Luck!
What a pain life has become. Moving to a new state (Oregon) and having to get a new driver’s license has become an exercise in frustration and a test of my patience.
I got out my official ‘Lynette’s Stuff’ folder, filled out required paperwork, waited 45 minutes out side the DMV office for them to open. I was actually second in line so I thought (silly me) I would be in and out quickly with a OR drivers license.
Ha HA! the joke is on me and, apparently everyone else who is trying to get a drivers license. Thanks to idendity theft and basically all the jerks in the world it is now improbable that you will have all the paper work you need.
Birth Certificate? Yes, it is not the original but the micro printed one with the official embossed seal from the county I was born. They scanned it, and took a great deal of time to be sure it was ‘official’.
Marriage Certificate? Yup, but it was not the official one. I have to print out the forms, figure what county I was married in, get both of our ‘identities’ verified by presenting every piece of official paper we have with blood work from our first born child (just kidding). Mail the lot off to said county with a check foer $13 and wait up to 6 MONTHS for the returned Marriage Certificate. If I was married before 1947 and after 1986 in CA I could not get a copy for the state of CA for up to 18 months. Was there a fire? Flood? Earthquake (well that may actually have happened!)
Thank GOD I changed my name back to my maiden name after 1st marriage otherwise I would need:
Birth certificate, Marriage certificate, divorce papers, court certificate of my name change, death certificate of my now dead ex-husband, new marriage certificate.
Proof of residence - a bill mailed to me in my name.
Social Security Card. How many of us have our original social security card? I got mine when I was 14 in 1969. Since you cannot laminate them good luck actually finding one that has not been washed and still has enough fiber to hold together.
What has our world come to? I think I’ll just keep the CA driver’s license until it expires in 2009.
Mike said,
September 5, 2008 at 5:46 am
I hear you. I had the same frustrations while switching to the Alabama Drivers license. My Birth Certificate was not valid. After 3 tries my US Passport was accepted as proof. Irony is, that same birth certificate they refused was the one I used to get the passport. (although I bet the passport rules have changed now as well) Pam is with you, she said screw it and kept her CA license)