06-13-2017, 03:16 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
tried to use my US passport in lieu of the SS card
This is valid; I've done it. Requirement is "documentation of legal presence", passport is actually the best document for this purpose.
Oh believe me I know. They accepted the passport as an additional "form of id" but they still required the SS card. Granted, this was only 1 year into the new requirements at the time and perhaps they were still trying to get their DMV policies ironed out, but it was ridiculous.
I had to go the local SS office, which was no longer authorized to issue SS cards because they now came from a secure centralized facility (haha). So they checked my status and wrote a form letter verifying my SS # and indicating a replacement card was being processed.
The DMV refused to allow this letter as verification or substitution for my SS card and I insisted they call the SS office (3 blocks away) which they refused. I then contacted the state's main DMV office, got them on the phone and they told the local manger that if I could prove I was leaving the country before my SS Card would arrive then they would issue the license.
So I had to go home to get my tickets and drive back. After scanning my tickets, the official letter from the SS department, my passport, my "bills mailed to a local address", and my previous driver's license (recently expired from another state) and two other forms of photo ID into the DMV system, I was given a new license (after taking the tests).