ALL CARS NEWS, 25 JULY - - Forget all about Y2K. California’s DMV is trying to figure out how it is going to jam 22 million licensed drivers and 2 million identification card holders through its 169 field offices. That’s right…24 million people into 169 already crowded offices. Why, you ask? Bureaucracy of course. The new Federal “Real ID” act requires that everyone shows up to renew their license in person with either their passport or birth certificate and two proofs of their address. No mail in renewals will be allowed. Currently California drivers can renew their licenses by mail twice, meaning a trip to the DMV only once every 15 years. Validating a passport should be easy enough, but how do you verify a birth certificate? The DMV can’t call all the county registrars around the country, now can it? To date nothing has been done about this issue, but some sort of national database is in the offing. Then there is the thorny issue of identity of validating someone born outside the United States. To make matters worse there has been no Federal money allocated to assist states in preparing for the 2008 Real ID implementation deadline. Stay tuned for more info as 2008 draws closer.
Or they could do what the Maryland legislature is doing-- nothing. The issue didn't even come up during 2006 session. That's right, no attempt to meet the RealID act rules and reissue licenses.
Meaning that, in the near future, Maryland drivers licenses will not be acceptable identification to say, board airplanes.
If anything, we recently went backwards because the state AG loosened ID restrictions as the result of a lawsuit-- basically, no SSN required AT ALL to get a license. So we had people from up and down the Eastern seaboard coming in carpools, vans, buses, etc. in the middle of the night, lining up hours before the MVA opens in the a.m. so they can get a license. The MVA has now instituted special appointment hours only for these folks, basically to stop the overnight campouts and the media coverage.
This is a clear trend with the US as a whole. The government is so busy trying to stunt growth that they forget to plan for it at all. Bigger trees need more water. WAKE UP GOVERNMENT. lol
good thing i have a military ID so my Cali ID does not need to be renewed til i get out of the navy.
Squidly Why are you worried you can update your ID on base!! and register your car too!! I was a squid too!! Whats your Rate? I was an RM/IT2 when I got out..... I was stationed at Coronado at the airbase.
But I loved to use the hobby shop at Miramar to work on my Civic when I had it........ sweet deal they have lifts and all the tools you could want!!
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California DMV Disaster Looming!
my DL expires in 2049 
and yes iam serious, CALI is 
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