some local headlines

[acroyear]

Airport board raises rates for Dulles Toll Road - washingtonpost.com

Frustrations of married women trying to get IDs at DMV - washingtonpost.com:

It took Earley four visits to the Fairfax/Westfields DMV office to get an ID card. All because her birth certificate didn't have her current name on it and that, according to new state and federal laws, means it doesn't prove that she is a U.S. citizen.

For women in particular, the passage of the Real ID law, which created standardized, federal identification standards in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has made the process of documenting who they are far more complicated, frustrating and unreasonable.

My wife carries her marriage license (well, a notorized copy) with her every time we leave the country, just in case someone gripes about name A != name B on any of the other documents she has.

Comments

Re: Thought that was standard

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

let's see. The DMV in my state doesn't recognize a passport as legal ID to show a name change or proof of citizenship. In order to get my driver's license after my name change (first and last); I had to have my SSN card, my old drivers license, my birth certificate, marriage certificate, and change of name form. To get my new passport, I needed the old passport (which was still valid) + the change of name documentation. Heaven forfend that I get robbed and lose my license because then I won't have a valid photo ID to get a valid photo ID (unless my employee ID would count since I work for a subset of the state government).

Also, it took 4 visits, 8 pieces of documentation and 4 people to get a car transferred to me. My parents got divorced and my mother remarried (so her current name doesn't match my birth certificate). I got married (so my last name doesn't match my birth certificate). I legally changed my first name (whee). So we ended up at MVA with the title of the car, the 'notification of gift' certificate, my birth certificate, her divorce decree, her 2nd marriage license, my marriage license, my paperwork on change of name, my passport, my husband's license, and our insurance cards to show that A) I was her daughter, B) my husband is a legal relative; C) we had insurance available for the car in question. If they had told us the first time we went through line (waited from 8:15-10:30am) what all we needed rather than just telling us that we were missing X documentation (not XY and Z) it wouldn't have been so annoying.

Retitling something after a death is really fun as well. Since you need to prove it wasn't a sale.

Oh, and if a jointly owned car has vanity plates, there is a special form that has to be signed by the former co-owner giving you rights to the plates.