Can I drive in Boston MA. USA with my drivers license from Colombia??

[patto354 0]

My mom is from Colombia, she si coming here with a a tourist Visa B1-b2. Can se drive in North Carolina?

Thanks

[*SunRay* 1]

My mom is from Colombia, she si coming here with a a tourist Visa B1-b2. Can se drive in North Carolina?

Thanks

Here's some info that may answer your question.

http://www.mass.gov/rmv/forms/21317.pdf

[cristina1977 1]

Only if your mom has an international driver license too.

My mom is from Colombia, she si coming here with a a tourist Visa B1-b2. Can se drive in North Carolina?

Thanks

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Making mistakes is only human, but I find it disturbing when people on VJ post totally incorrect information without a second thought.

With a few rare exceptions (referring to people from rather "questionable" countries), any tourist on a vacation in the United States can use their country's driver license to operate a motor vehicle in the United States. Even under MA law, a citizen of Colombia can use her Colombian Driver License without problems. Since INTERNATIONAL driving permits are often offered from questionable and fraudulent sources to people who are not authorized to drive anywhere, they are rarely accepted, for obvious reasons. So the advice to any tourist is to completely ignore international driving permits, even if theirs is legitimately issued by their country's authority, and use their national license instead.

Imagine a tourist visiting the United States, loaded with suitcases, cranky children and camera and all, arriving at the airport and ready to jump into the rental car they booked, and their driver license would not be valid. I mean, seriously. Would you expect a tourist to get a US driver license in order to drive a rental car or family member's car on vacation? They wouldn't be able to, even if they wanted to! Do you think YOU need a driver license from every country you are taking a vacation at? Seriously? So this is complete hogwash, plain and simple and people who state such nonsense are not only mistaken in a big way, but also even lack the most basic common sense.

Keep in mind that this refers to tourists on vacation, not cases of immigrants or residents-to-be or people of questionable status who happen to reside in the US. Tourists on vacation it is, nothing else.

[NickD 203]

Making mistakes is only human, but I find it disturbing when people on VJ post totally incorrect information without a second thought.

With a few rare exceptions (referring to people from rather "questionable" countries), any tourist on a vacation in the United States can use their country's driver license to operate a motor vehicle in the United States. Even under MA law, a citizen of Colombia can use her Colombian Driver License without problems. Since INTERNATIONAL driving permits are often offered from questionable and fraudulent sources to people who are not authorized to drive anywhere, they are rarely accepted, for obvious reasons. So the advice to any tourist is to completely ignore international driving permits, even if theirs is legitimately issued by their country's authority, and use their national license instead.

Imagine a tourist visiting the United States, loaded with suitcases, cranky children and camera and all, arriving at the airport and ready to jump into the rental car they booked, and their driver license would not be valid. I mean, seriously. Would you expect a tourist to get a US driver license in order to drive a rental car or family member's car on vacation? They wouldn't be able to, even if they wanted to! Do you think YOU need a driver license from every country you are taking a vacation at? Seriously? So this is complete hogwash, plain and simple and people who state such nonsense are not only mistaken in a big way, but also even lack the most basic common sense.

Keep in mind that this refers to tourists on vacation, not cases of immigrants or residents-to-be or people of questionable status who happen to reside in the US. Tourists on vacation it is, nothing else.

I feel it's an insurance issue more than any state issue, after all, they are the ones that are liable, and let them determine what kind of drivers' license you need to have. Car rental agencies handle this for you, was my companies policy to pay that extra 20 bucks a day for full non-deductible coverage. Never know what kind of idiot may hit your parked car or try to steal it.

If that person is going to drive your car, definitely want to call them first to find out what they want. When my wife to be came here, they requested an international license, was super easy for my wife to get that in her home country. My insurance company was happy with that, so she was fully covered. Like anything else, all insurance companies are different, so call them.