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I've moved to virginia from Toronto six months ago, I got the driving license without any problem since I already carry the Canadian Driving license.

The problem starts when my wife needs the Photo Identification Card, because where ever she use her credit card they asked her to show the photo ID, since we don't have that tradition in Canada for getting the PHOTO ID from Ministry of Transport, she never got any, but here I came to know that local DMV can issue the photo Identification card, and then my wife doens't need to carry her passport in the shopping malls.

As my wife also have a plan to learn driving here in USA.

She visited 3 time to the local DMV tried to get the PHOTO ID card, and she was refused with the paper to provide documents i.e. "acceptable documents". She also denied to get the SSN (not valid for work).

According the that list, She can only provide one primary document (Foreign passport with i-94) and the proof of residency (bank statement). Other than the list she has Canadian Govt. Issued ID (Canadian Citizenship Certificate) and OHIP Card (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) which is also a govt. issued.

I have tried hard to find the document which she can provide from the list , but got no luck.

Will you please advise that what she can do in order to get the Photo ID from DMV???

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Regards,
 
It looks like nobody can help me here.

Here is the link for the "Acceptable Documents" http://www.dmvnow.com/webdoc/pdf/dmv141.pdf

As you can see here that for a Canadian you can only provide the Canadian Driving License. What if somebody doesn’t have that?

The Certificate of Canadian Citizenship doens't work, It is a Canadian Govt. issued ID (which has serial # there of course). They don't accept that. according to the list, she only have one option, to go back to Canada and get the License from there and then come back to convert it into US License.

This is ridiculous, 1. its not easy to go back 2. The Canadians have just two option, they have to provide those two documents. Does that make sense? read the list of documents and think that some one who does not have a Canadian license how he/she can the license in US even if he is living here legally.

Please advice, that where I can raise this issue..


Thanks.
 
You just provide your Canadian driver's license or you provide other documents as well?
By law if you have already a Canadian driver's license you can get a Virginia driver's license, but that doesn't mean that they can give you an ID card. You must proof that you are legally here. ID card is issue so the person have an identification card as a resident of that state, meaning you need to proof that you are a legal resident of that state.

Everybody is going to the same process (unless you have a Canadian or German DL per Virginia law). Most of the States require by law that you proof your legal presence for ID card and driver's license.
http://www.dmv.state.va.us/webdoc/citizen/legal_pres.asp

What is her status here? visitor, H?...etc?

Good luck,
 
You didn't get my point.

My question was, if somebody is a legal resident of Virginia, and he is not carrying the Canadian Driving License, how to get the Photo ID (I am saying photo ID coz, there is no difference to get the ID or DL in sense of showing the document). The problem is the person is a legal resident of Virginia, and have a foreign Passpost with Valid I-94 and the proof of residency, but other than that he has nothing from the list of Primary document.

DMV is asking atleast one more document from the "Primary Documents" List or the "Secondary Documents".

I have post the link above for the Acceptable document list, which you can see that they've essentially made it impossible for a third of the state population to get a legal DL with these requriments.

Please advise.
 
Hi Shyboy,

I live in New York and there are similar requirements here. As far as I know, for those people that are not entitled to SSNs, you can get a letter from the Department of Social Security (DoSS) stating that the person is not entitled and this is used by the DMV in place of the number. Alternatively, if the DMV absolutely require a number, get them to issue you with a letter and take that to the DoSS so they can issue your wife with a SSN that is not valid for work. It's a pain but I think it should be possible.
 
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