Does this happen in the state you live in?

[Sterling]

When getting a driver's license...as in renewing it, do you have to go through all kinds of red tape? NJ has a point system they started a couple of years ago. You have to show certain documents and each is worth a certain amount of points and you need 6 points in order to get your driver's license renewed. Included are your driver's license, social security card, marriage license, old driver's license..etc....if you don't have the documents to add up to 6 points.....it's tuff luck...seee yah :saludando: ! Was just wondering if we're the only state that has had this stupid rule enacted?

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[Mona]

:new_shocked: OMG! That is unbelievable! It's easy here! Just bring your renewal notice in, get your pic taken, take a new photo, pay the required fees, and that's it! I can see them wanting all that if it is your first license, but not just for renewals! WOWSERS!

 

[wade3504]

We have to do an eye test, get new picture, turn in old license and that's it.

Amanda

 

[Marty]

You don't even have to be sober here...........

 

[shminifancier]

We have to do an eye test, get new picture, turn in old license and that's it.

Amanda

Yes the same in WI. no biggy at all..

 

[Ashley]

I have never had to do a eye exam besides when I first got my license. Which even then it didnt really matter. I do need my glasses to drive, and do need them to take the eye test but some how its not listed on my license............no biggy thou.

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[Jenn]

It's been awhile since I've renewed mine, but I'm pretty sure you have to show other forms of ID to verify you are who you say you are.

 

[dannigirl]

Last time I renewed in Illinois, I was sent a form to fill out and send in with appropriate fee and they sent me a sticker to put on the back of my old one. I could also have taken form and old licence to renewal office and have my photo taken and they would have given me a new one. They may have checked my eyesight first, but am not sure. The form did have questions asking if all was still the same. If not you had to go and get a new one. I also, think mail renewal is only for people without any accidents or tickets during the last license period.

 

[rabbitsfizz]

Wow...renewing a license??

Never had to do it- once I had my license- which I actually did not bother to get until I was 32, I was good to go until, I think, 70. Not quite there yet

 

[Minimor]

Here we get a new photo taken every 4 years. When the photo is needed we take in our license renewal & go in person to the licensing office to renew the license--sign in the little box, get the photo taken, pay the fee & they laminate the photo, stamp (or stick a sticker on? forget which) the license, & away we go.

In non photo years we can mail in the form (allowing time for the mail to get the stamped/stickered license back to us) or go in person, whichever is preferred.

Nothing extra required, other than answering a few questions on the license--(have you ever had seizures, blackouts, lung/heart problems, etc.)--and signing the license in two places. Fees are $35/year, or more if you don't have the maximum (5) merit points. For each merit you don't have I think it's $5 extra.

 

[justaboutgeese]

Here its every six years on your birthday. Old license, stand infront of the camera, pay the fee. The new license comes in the mail two weeks later. If you don`t want to do that there are kiosks at many malls. Built in camers, slide a credit or debit card and you are done.

 

[yankee_minis]

Ours is simple too.

But the good news is that if we ever have to do this.. I have all those documents right here! LOL

(Yes, I'm proud of that! LOL)

 

[FFFoxyGal]

We have to go in EVERY year on our birthday and pay $25.00, then resign our licence and that is it.

Not sure about the photo refreshing thingy,...I think it is the same as Minimors.

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[Steph_D]

Missouri is the "Show Me State" and this year they started this "Show Me Proof" crap. It's a bunch of baloney if you ask me. I just had my license renewed and had take in my birth certificate, new SS card (my old one got washed a few too many times

: ), marriage license if my SS card wasn't in my new name, utility bill showing my address and a bunch of other crap. I had the list of everything that they wanted, but I trashed it. If I would've had a passport, I wouldn't have needed most of this stuff.

My mom had to get hers renewed early, when they first started this crappy program, because she doesn't have a birth certificate and can't get one. She was born in a tent in the middle of the Arizona desert and there's no record of her birth in the state. She's got 6 more years to drive, then she can't get another license :no:

 

[justaboutgeese]

One thing that amazes me is that people readily give up their Social Security Numbers to anybody that asks for it. Mine says not for ID purposes right on it. Only a bank (for interest purposes, employer for tax purposes and the IRS) You can (and should) refuse to give it to any other company, group, organization or local government for your own protection.

 

[Steph_D]

One thing that amazes me is that people readily give up their Social Security Numbers to anybody that asks for it. Mine says not for ID purposes right on it. Only a bank (for interest purposes, employer for tax purposes and the IRS) You can (and should) refuse to give it to any other company, group, organization or local government for your own protection.

Our SS number used to be used as our driver's license number. Now that has also changed and I have this big long string of letters and numbers to memorize. It is safer, though. I hear a lot of SS numbers going over the police scanner along with a person's name and birthdate

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[chandab]

One thing that amazes me is that people readily give up their Social Security Numbers to anybody that asks for it. Mine says not for ID purposes right on it. Only a bank (for interest purposes, employer for tax purposes and the IRS) You can (and should) refuse to give it to any other company, group, organization or local government for your own protection.

Our SS number used to be used as our driver's license number. Now that has also changed and I have this big long string of letters and numbers to memorize. It is safer, though. I hear a lot of SS numbers going over the police scanner along with a person's name and birthdate

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Steph,

What state do you live in? That's how it used to be in MT. When I first moved back and had to get my new license, I requested it not be my SS number, so they gave me an ID # a miles long that's alpha-numeric.

 

[SunQuest]

I agree with Geese. You SS number was NEVER EVER supposed to be used for identification. Get a passport. Use that instead. I have friends that use their passport as a main form of identification.

Steph, see if you can use just a passport as ID for renewing and see if your mother can get a passport to use in place of a birth certificate. Your mother is not the only one born without a birth certificate, as many her age and older were often born without being in a hospital. If she has a SS number, and other documents like a marrage certificate, she should be able to show those. If that won't work, I would start calling by calling an attorney and the news media to start to raise a stink over this as this really is garbage IMO.

I renewed my license last fall and didn't need anything other than the old license. I wonder if this is another patriot act thing, and if this is new legislation that was just enacted.

As for using my birth certificate.... NOPE! Your birth certificate should be guarded as much as your SS number. The information contained on that gives everyone access to ALL of your financial and personal information including your SS number as that is what is needed to apply for a SS number! Once you have birth place, birth date, and mother's maiden name and your full name, it would not be hard to duplicate and then claim that you are someone that you are not.

Oh don't get me started on how we are loosing our freedoms and have to now carry around id papers.... URGG

 

[Steph_D]

Steph, see if you can use just a passport as ID for renewing and see if your mother can get a passport to use in place of a birth certificate. Your mother is not the only one born without a birth certificate, as many her age and older were often born without being in a hospital. If she has a SS number, and other documents like a marrage certificate, she should be able to show those. If that won't work, I would start calling by calling an attorney and the news media to start to raise a stink over this as this really is garbage IMO.

They call the birth certificate thing "Proof Of Lawful Presence". I call it stupidity. Actually, you CAN get a license without a birth certificate, if you were born before 1930 (also a long, drawn-out process with a ton of letters to the government). Mom's out of luck because she was born in 1937 :no: She almost wasn't able to get her social security because, even though she's had a card all her life, they require a birth certificate in order to get your payments. She had tried for 3 years to get signed up (also trying to get a birth cert) and finally had to go to their office and plead her case. Also, a passport requires a birth certificate (hubby had to send off for his, to get his passport). I imagine in 6 years, when her license renewal comes due again, she'll probably be raising a pretty good stink.

I can understand why they're doing this, because of the illegals, but it's a load of crap for those of us who've been here all our lives. When the folks at the license office know you by name, it gets a little rediculous

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[crponies]

Yep, like Sunquest said, you just need your old license here. I just got my renewed. They did this little vision test and took a new picture for the new license, and I had to sign a few forms. I think it cost me about $24 for the 4 year license.