REAL ID is Coming

[Russell Holton]

And, Maryland has to "recall" 66,000 driver's licenses.

66,300 Marylanders could have driver's licenses recalled in June as REAL ID deadline looms, MVA says

[Mase Taylor]

So you're forgoing any opportunity to serve on a federal jury or shop at the PX?

[Andy Alson]

91 and driving sounds pretty good to me! Good to hear.

[Ward Miller]

Andy, I recently obtained a Standard driver's license, when my old DL expired. Because I'll never be riding a commercial plane again, never again enter a Federal building and never be crossing the border, I just let them provide a Standard, avoiding a trip to the DMV. I've used it for ID several times and while exercising my right behind the wheel, like today when I went for a haircut. Ninety-one isn't too old to drive, is it? <g>

[Andy Alson]

New York State now has three types of drivers licenses. Standard, Real ID, and Enhanced. The Real ID and the Enhanced are both federally approved and can be used for identification into federal buildings, the Enhanced one can also be used at US border crossings from Canada, Mexico, and some Caribbean countries instead of needing a passport. The enhanced one costs $30 extra. Different documentation is required to obtain each of them.

[Larry sreyoB]

They get a license which is not a real ID.

That makes sense.

[Mase Taylor]

They get a license which is not a real ID.

[Larry sreyoB]

Aren't there some states that will issue a driver's license to people who are not legally in the US? Do they get a Real ID?

[Ward Miller]

Andy, when I was a kid my folks kept my birth certificate with the family's important paper. I first used it in 1944 when I enlist in the Air Corps. I kept it and used it several more times while in the Army. Used it when I enrolled in college; when I applied for a driver's license on several occasions in several states; when I applied for SSA; when I applied for a job with IBM.

In the 1970's, when I applied for a passport, I presented it and the clerk said it was not valid because it did not have a raised seal! I explained how I had used it for many years . . . and they finally accepted it. <sigh> All those years and all of those times, it was not an official birth certificate!

[Andy Alson]

Got mine last year. To issue it the DMV required something with my SSAN showing on it and since I haven't been working for a while and don't have any pay statements with it on it, and because for security purposes most tax statements (like 1099s) only show the last 4 digits of the number, I tried to use my social security card which I've had since shortly after I was born. I took it with me to the DMV and they told me it wasn't an official card since it had been torn on the dotted lines and the portion which was removed had information required to make it official. So I had to go to the local SS office to request a replacement card which was mailed to me and which I then took back to the DMV and got my "enhanced" driver's license mailed to me. Just wasted a lot of time for something I guess I didn't really need since I could have just used my US passport as the required ID.

[Dave Siciliano]

Just two proof :-). I thought you liked stronger.

[Mase Taylor]

I got mine last month. My passport expired so I used a birth certificate and two proofs of address.

[Dave Siciliano]

It amazes me that folks even request things like that. Got a call last week like that. I informed them the business entities that would be responsible were dissolved many years ago. Didn’t matter to them. Just do it for the team.
I won’t bother about the former consultant that asked that I represent to a lender that she still worked for me so she could finance a home.

[Ralph Jones]

some people received REAL ID compliant renewal licenses, THEN had to show up at MVA to produce documents

A$$ covering. Somebody didn't take a mandatory step and realized it wouldn't pass an audit.

Eons ago I was in the Aero Club at WPAFB, but their slipshod MX drove me away into a civilian club. Couple of years later they asked me to fill out the checkout quiz for an airplane I used to fly there, and would I please backdate it?

[Mike Overly]

If you have a passport this is pretty painless, but otherwise, prepare to overhear some amusing and enraging things while you stand in line for one of these. The woman next to me had her application rejected because a church typist transposed two letters on the groom’s father’s last name on her marriage certificate in 1964.