My coworker went to renew her driver’s license.
They sent her back, said she needed a birth certificate because she didn’t have the star on it yet. She’s old and from some small town up north so this took 6 months plus another to get another DMV appointment.
She went back yesterday and they said no, you also need the marriage certificate from your first marriage, the divorce documentation, the marriage certificate from your second marriage and the divorce documentation from that too.
So now her license is expired, and she can’t renew it until some tiny vital statistics department far from here responds to her with paper copies of all those items.
I am wildly infuriated.
ITT screeching at hating women.
Dumb or not, your state id serves as the defacto federal id in lieu of a passport and as such is commonly used for id theft. Name changes are a common way to accomplish this.
God forbid we require a paper trail and people actually make copies of their name change documents as you are told to do when first changing the name.
I get how this could be a problem for an older women but this is easily avoidable and doesn’t have to be a thing. You also don’t have to change your name 🤷.
Using misygynist language to complain about people complaining about [perceived] misogyny totally is gonna get those people on your side.
Bro, I gave up farming popularity ages ago. This is whining about minor shit for the sake of whining.
Yeah her first marriage (and name change) was literally 50 years ago, it’s difficult to get documents that old, from far flung vital statistics offices. Presumably she DID show the document to the DMV fifty years ago, but the state didn’t document that back then.
I agree an older generation may have issues. It still doesn’t fix someone stealing her identity without verification. Name changes are a key way they are stolen.