Driving in the US with Mexican drivers license?(k1 visa)

[Jjames727 0]

Hello, my fiance is almost here and we're wondering about her driving here using a Mexican drivers license. (we'll be living in Louisiana it it makes a difference) Once she gets here will she be required to take drivers ed and get a Louisiana drivers license right from the start or how much time do we have?

[Darnell 8,479]

Louisiana has a website about this stuff, have you studied it, from a PC?

[Pitaya 2,577]

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[Jjames727 0]

I have however the site kind of confused me (assuming I found the right one.) and I also called my local dmv but they didn't give me a straight answer.

And thanks for moving the forum, I really want sure where to put it.

[Eric & Idalia 56]

I was a Mexican au pair in New Mexico. I was using my international driver license until it was not valid. Some au pairs told me I could use my Mexican driver license for 6 months while I got the New Mexico one. It was not true. At least that´s what the officer told me when I showed it to him. He said my Mexican driver license was not valid in USA.

In the MVD they asked me to take the written test, but not the practice test because I had already a driver license. Read the information from the MVD website of your state.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Eric & Idalia

[Umka36 781]

Not sure if this helps, but found it interesting:

http://web01.dps.louisiana.gov/Omv1.nsf/58c968bd569b099986256cdc000806eb/b5f27a9c7f2a864186256b6f004a2e8f

[Jjames727 0]

That's what I had found but unless I didn't see it so they don't really say anything. But I'm still looking