I751 filed. Having trouble renewing US drivers license

[Schwez 0]

Most of us would be familiar with the notion that most states will set the expiry date of your drivers license to whenever your visa / green card / status expires.

My license expired 3/31, same day my 2yr conditional green card expired.

I moved from Kansas to Illinois on April 2 and took myself to the DMV to get a new Illinois license.

I had my expired GC and the NOA letter stating my status is extended by one year.

The guy at the DMV told me I could not get a license until the new green card arrives. This could be up to 8 months away!!

Does anybody know a way around this??

[Hypnos 6,576]

Contact someone higher up in the Illinois DMV and / or one of your Illinois state representatives (not federal, since this is an Illinois issue).

Worst case scenario, if you get no truck with those, is to make an Infopass at your local office, take your passport and original NOA extension letter and receive an I-551 passport stamp. They will usually take your green card as part of the process, but this I-551 stamp should serve as sufficient proof to obtain a new driver's license.

Edited April 10, 2013 by Hypnos

[Darnell 8,478]

get a different guy at the DMV, as that one seems to be a tardo.

[bigdog 376]

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/pdf_publications/dsd_x173.pdf

group A • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Forms — I-551

(Alien Registration Card); I-766 (Employment Authorization Card); I-94

(Arrival/Departure Record) with Valid Passport

Illinois Driver’s License/ID Card Renewal Applicant

An applicant renewing a current Illinois driver’s license or ID card need only present his/her current valid driver’s license or

ID card if no changes are required. If the applicant does not have his/her current driver’s license or ID card or changes are

required, he/she must present:

•one document that satisfies Group A

•one document that satisfies each of Group B, C or D (two documents from Group D if applicant is requesting an address

change to appear on the document unless applicant is renewing a no-fee ID card presenting a Homeless Status Certification)

Go to their web site print it out ant]d take it with you.

[Mithmeoi 29]

Most of us would be familiar with the notion that most states will set the expiry date of your drivers license to whenever your visa / green card / status expires.

My license expired 3/31, same day my 2yr conditional green card expired.

I moved from Kansas to Illinois on April 2 and took myself to the DMV to get a new Illinois license.

I had my expired GC and the NOA letter stating my status is extended by one year.

The guy at the DMV told me I could not get a license until the new green card arrives. This could be up to 8 months away!!

Does anybody know a way around this??

We had this same problem with the DMV here! They weren't real nice about it either at first and wouldn't let me explain. So a bit later I phoned the supervisor, as he wasn't in the day we had stopped by, and I explained what the letter of extension was. He told me to bring it in and show him cause he'd never heard of it before. He read through it and looked at all the other things we brought in with us (expired gc, passport, ssn) and said it was ok and granted us the ID. He was actually quite friendly about it unlike the window worker I had talked to prior.

Good luck! Hopefully your supervisor will do the same!