I got an NM state ID today and they let me keep my Idaho driver's license

It wasn't so much "let me keep" as "nonchalantly returned it to me after using it as proof that I am a U.S. citizen."

Did they punch a hole in it? Some states let you keep it - Washington let me keep my Arizona license, but they punched a George Washington's head-shaped hole in it.

Well, one could "lose" their license and just go get a new one, so what's the difference.

No hole, no nothing, just same old license that doesn't look entirely like me as I weighed 50 lbs. more at the time an was stoned in the picture.

Well, maybe because you didn't get a NM driver's license and the ID one is still valid, so why should they take it away?

It's so great! I'm gonna buy some kind of vehicle soon and I was terrified about doing it without a license...the application in NM takes like a month bcz you have to pay for all these tests about how you understand that Drunk Driving is for Dolts.

Also, how does a driver's license prove you are a citizen? I don't think any states deny driver's licenses to non-US citizens yet.

The whole thing was nutty.

Too much sunshine down there, making people all laid back and shit. :D

Do most/some/any states let you register a vehicle there if your license/residence is somewhere else?

*shrugs* I've got a little homework to do in this arena.

no pic no cred!

Do you want to see a pic.

I will tell you about it: it is a photo of my face.

CUET

your name's wanko. thus, no pic

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Yeah I now own a vehicle on both coasts..

Yeah, driver's license is not proof of citizenship, because you don't have to be a citizen (or even a permanent resident to get one). It is proof of identity though.

nm>>>>>>>>id

I got an Arizona driver's license. It expires in 2048. This state is fucking crazy.

wacky! i guess that's good? because license renewals are a pain but -- 2048!!

My husband got a state ID and it just doesn't expire, ever.

In the UK, old style licenses expired when the holder was 70 years old. So someone could possibly have had a license for 53 years. (new photocard style licenses needs to be renewed every 10 years)

so if you come to be 50 or 60 years old and still living in AZ your license will have the same photo as it does today?? what?

my sister was so happy about that, her age 28 picture on there for yeaaaars

Yeah, I will look like a kind of trashy & sweaty 27-year-old with smeared eyeliner until 2048.

wow! is that a new thing in AZ? i remember being in phx about um, 9 or 10 years ago, and my uncle renewing his drivers license and his big complaint then was that all AZ IDs are totally crummy and within a year or something your face is almost unrecognizable on the card. muchas scuff prone iirc.

xp: as long as you dont look mexican...

How's AZ treating you otherwise, Abbott?

my license is only good for 5 years! so i am really surprised by this AZ peculiarity

AZ is hot as shit! And I made friends w/this dude who wants to get us into the "Navajo grindcore" scene, so that's pretty mindblowing.

OTM and OTM. in that order.

My grandad got a driving licence circa 1930, when they didn't expire and you didn't need to pass a test

(I think they didn't expire, anyway - it was still his driving licence 70 years later, when he was 90 and gave up driving. He never did a test)

("grandad" looks wrong and Google Chrome spellcheck has underlined it but I asked 2 style guides. felt self-conscious enough about it being there to explain it, since Americans will think "licence" is spelt wrong too. and "spelt" for that matter. stupid language)

I still have my AZ license (with the Geo. Wash. shaped hole) - it doesn't expire until 2025. The state changed things when I was living down there (sometime in the '90s) so licenses expire when you turn 65. You could get a new picture every 10 years for free supposedly.

aha!

i got a NY license last summer and it expires on my birthday NEXT YEAR, wtf

I still have my AZ license (with the Geo. Wash. shaped hole)
I wonder what General Washington would think about this.

Pretty sure he'd be unimpressed. It took me ages to figure out what that shape was on the state highway signs. I thought his ponytail was a little pine tree for a very long time.

where in AZ are ya?

They misspelt my last name on my state ID. I didn't notice it til a week later. Is it illegal for me to still be using it after like 3 years? I've never run into problems.

I still have my AZ license with an expiration date some time in the 2030's. I haven't lived there in 11 years now.

Jaq, I had the same issue with the road signs when I moved to WA and once I figured out it was Washington's head it just makes me angry. The MS Word clip art state flag enrages me too. But I'd love a Washington's head shaped hole punch.