My Crazed Rant

[noviademexicano 0]

I would definately try another office, armed with files of bank statements, utility bills, marriage certificate, and of course all papework recieved from INS, and passport w/record of entry/departure. Under the 6 point system your spouse should have more than enough evidence to get the license, if you can't get that get the state issued ID.

Don't accept there bull ask to speak to a supervisor and if the supervisor gives you a hard time ask them who is the person above them and how you can contact them.

[Cassie 8]

Does he have a driver's license from his home country? My husband does and since the DMV said he wasn't a resident (cause, like your husband, he cant prove to their standards that he trully lives here), he is a visitor. Well, visitors with foreign licenses can drive in the United States for up to one year...so, our conclusion: they consider him a visitor, he can drive. Anyway, that has been our solution cause the two different DMVs that we have gone to are quite unflexible and won't listen.

That is exactly what DMV told us to do....HOWEVER... (oh the irony, really) He was stopped for a routine check, and was given a ticket for being an unlicensed driver, even after showing the police officer a international drivers license, and a license from Costa Rica. The prosecutor actually dropped the charges, but it was pure aggravation!

Yeah, I was told that as well ("you can use your valid Canadian DL, just don't do anything to get a ticket"). I never drove so well in my life!

Sorry that it's taking so long to get your hubby's DL. Oklahoma (depending on the office) will give a temporary DL to K-1ers who have their EADs (but the DL is only valid as long as the EAD is valid). I didn't bother to go back after my EAD arrived, because then I would have to go back again once the green card arrived. Not worth the aggravation.

Didn't the 9-11 terrorists come in on student or visitor's visas and were able to successfully get DLs in Florida? Methinks that's why most if not all the DMVs are sticklers on the residency requirements these days?

[gemini23nj 2]

Hello all! Just to answer some of the questions that I have read. We did in fact have all of our NOA letters, and ever other imaginable piece of valid paperwork.

The DMV that we are using is the only designated office that will handle international license transfers,that is one reason we didn't go to another DMV. I could go down and demand a supervisor, but I know me, and I am so frustrated with the chain of events, I am truly afraid that I will have an emotional breakdown. My husbands aos interview is a few weeks away, we have waited this long, why not a few more weeks!

Several other states are much easier to obtain drivers licenses. There are many, many residents, most not even legal in the USA that travel as far as Tennesse and Michigan to obtain a drivers license, because it is so easy.

In regard to driving and having a learners permit. If you don't meet the point system, you do not qualify for the permit either, they just send you on your way.