LICENSE RENEWAL QUESTION - Page 3

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@patbz wrote:
@mousiegirl : I don't know your age but just from your description, you need to get examined for possible cataracts. The good news is that it you are at least 65 Medicare pays for exam, surgery and $150 towards a new pair of glasses.

@patbz I have no cataracts so says my eye doctor.

software · ‎06-08-2016

In Alabama, we can't renew online every time. After 8 years, we have to do it in person.

I'm 66, not interested in the Star ID. I have a passport. But I rarely travel.

The only potential glitch on the Star ID is all the documentation must be in your name, consistently. In other words, if your name is Jane A. Doe, every document must be in the name of Jane A. Doe. I'm not sure if my name on my passport is exactly the same as on my SS card.

RealtyGal2 · ‎01-05-2017

@mousiegirl wrote:
I received a notice to go online to give information for license renewal. does this mean I should study the handbook?

You need to check with the motor vehicle department in your own state. The requirements for renewal and for the offical I.D. varie from state to state and with individual circumstances such as "do you need an eye test or have other conditions on your current license"?

qvcaddition · ‎03-10-2010

I wonder if you mean registration renewal? I received mine in the mail and it also had a notice of every document you would need to bring to receive a real ID.

Birth certificate, two pieces of utilities to prove address, a passport if you have one. If you have a name change, that document. My friend is 94. She was born in Rome and came here as a war bride many years ago in her early 20,s. She later divorced and remarried. Name change. She had all the proof. She had a nightmare and it took weeks to clear her. She no longer drives, just wanted real ID. Actually, they mailed her a letter. They almost sent this poor woman to the hospital, she got so sick over it. She,s old school, you do everything by law. We as citizens obey the law, yet being put through all this hassle. The this also apply to those not cifizens?

viva923 · ‎03-12-2010

Mousie

my state has had the gold star for some time. I know we had to bring all kinds of paperwork into the DMV when we did that gold star change over. most of the paperwork was to prove we owned our house, paid utilities at the house with the address on the utility bill and such. know dh and i had to dig out our birth certificates when my state went from reg. to gold star change over.

most likely it is answering questions to make the renewal faster, more streamlined.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@viva923 wrote:
Mousie
my state has had the gold star for some time. I know we had to bring all kinds of paperwork into the DMV when we did that gold star change over. most of the paperwork was to prove we owned our house, paid utilities at the house with the address on the utility bill and such. know dh and i had to dig out our birth certificates when my state went from reg. to gold star change over.

most likely it is answering questions to make the renewal faster, more streamlined.

@viva923 I would have to buy a new birth certificate, have no clue where mine is, maybe packed away in my Mother's trunk which I havn't opened since she passed in the eighties, not going there. The same with the SS number, I know mine, but a card is necessary, so probbly around $100 for the two. I think I paid $50 for a birth certificate, took a copy but would not accept it, when DD needed an official ID for college since she didn't have a driver's license when she began.

Right now, I have to find low number readers, all I have tried don't work well, so I can read the tiny letters that are so far away at the DMV. Even on the freeway, there is plenty of time to get close enough to a sign, further back, to read it, with the large print, so don't know why the DMV thinks it is necessary for a person to read such tiny print at such a distance, makes no sense to me.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

@mousiegirl wrote:
@viva923 wrote:
Mousie
my state has had the gold star for some time. I know we had to bring all kinds of paperwork into the DMV when we did that gold star change over. most of the paperwork was to prove we owned our house, paid utilities at the house with the address on the utility bill and such. know dh and i had to dig out our birth certificates when my state went from reg. to gold star change over.

most likely it is answering questions to make the renewal faster, more streamlined.

@viva923 I would have to buy a new birth certificate, have no clue where mine is, maybe packed away in my Mother's trunk which I havn't opened since she passed in the eighties, not going there. The same with the SS number, I know mine, but a card is necessary, so probbly around $100 for the two. I think I paid $50 for a birth certificate, took a copy but would not accept it, when DD needed an official ID for college since she didn't have a driver's license when she began.

Right now, I have to find low number readers, all I have tried don't work well, so I can read the tiny letters that are so far away at the DMV. Even on the freeway, there is plenty of time to get close enough to a sign, further back, to read it, with the large print, so don't know why the DMV thinks it is necessary for a person to read such tiny print at such a distance, makes no sense to me.

@mousiegirl, I'm surprised that you don't have your SS card. It might be very much worth it to have it as well as a certified copy of your birth certificate. It is very easy to get both. I am awaiting my certified copy of our marriage license for my Real ID because my name changed when I married.

I'm not sure I understand your problem with the eye test at the DMV. The eye chart is not far away at all. It's right behind the desk at which you dealing with a representative.

And readers (I have a prescription for mine) are not for distance anyway.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@suzyQ3 wrote:
@mousiegirl wrote:
@viva923 wrote:
Mousie
my state has had the gold star for some time. I know we had to bring all kinds of paperwork into the DMV when we did that gold star change over. most of the paperwork was to prove we owned our house, paid utilities at the house with the address on the utility bill and such. know dh and i had to dig out our birth certificates when my state went from reg. to gold star change over.

most likely it is answering questions to make the renewal faster, more streamlined.

@viva923 I would have to buy a new birth certificate, have no clue where mine is, maybe packed away in my Mother's trunk which I havn't opened since she passed in the eighties, not going there. The same with the SS number, I know mine, but a card is necessary, so probbly around $100 for the two. I think I paid $50 for a birth certificate, took a copy but would not accept it, when DD needed an official ID for college since she didn't have a driver's license when she began.

Right now, I have to find low number readers, all I have tried don't work well, so I can read the tiny letters that are so far away at the DMV. Even on the freeway, there is plenty of time to get close enough to a sign, further back, to read it, with the large print, so don't know why the DMV thinks it is necessary for a person to read such tiny print at such a distance, makes no sense to me.
@mousiegirl, I'm surprised that you don't have your SS card. It might be very much worth it to have it as well as a certified copy of your birth certificate. It is very easy to get both. I am awaiting my certified copy of our marriage license for my Real ID because my name changed when I married.

I'm not sure I understand your problem with the eye test at the DMV. The eye chart is not far away at all. It's right behind the desk at which you dealing with a representative.

And readers (I have a prescription for mine) are not for distance anyway.

@suzyQ3 Not all DMV offices are the same, At my DMV, the chart is ridiculously far away, couldn't believe it, so this time, I am going to give them an earful.

Well, the readers I was told to get are the same as the regular but a very low number. The cheapies in my eye doctor's office are wonderful so will ask her where I can get those, want to be as prepared as possible for the DMV eye test, what a pain!

I see perfectly fine up close and at a distance, but tiny letters far away, who can read those, and who would need to, nobody except when at the DMV.

Bri369 · ‎11-03-2018

You can get a replacement SS card for free. Many states allow you to request one online.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

@mousiegirl wrote:
@suzyQ3 wrote:
@mousiegirl wrote:
@viva923 wrote:
Mousie
my state has had the gold star for some time. I know we had to bring all kinds of paperwork into the DMV when we did that gold star change over. most of the paperwork was to prove we owned our house, paid utilities at the house with the address on the utility bill and such. know dh and i had to dig out our birth certificates when my state went from reg. to gold star change over.

most likely it is answering questions to make the renewal faster, more streamlined.

@viva923 I would have to buy a new birth certificate, have no clue where mine is, maybe packed away in my Mother's trunk which I havn't opened since she passed in the eighties, not going there. The same with the SS number, I know mine, but a card is necessary, so probbly around $100 for the two. I think I paid $50 for a birth certificate, took a copy but would not accept it, when DD needed an official ID for college since she didn't have a driver's license when she began.

Right now, I have to find low number readers, all I have tried don't work well, so I can read the tiny letters that are so far away at the DMV. Even on the freeway, there is plenty of time to get close enough to a sign, further back, to read it, with the large print, so don't know why the DMV thinks it is necessary for a person to read such tiny print at such a distance, makes no sense to me.
@mousiegirl, I'm surprised that you don't have your SS card. It might be very much worth it to have it as well as a certified copy of your birth certificate. It is very easy to get both. I am awaiting my certified copy of our marriage license for my Real ID because my name changed when I married.

I'm not sure I understand your problem with the eye test at the DMV. The eye chart is not far away at all. It's right behind the desk at which you dealing with a representative.

And readers (I have a prescription for mine) are not for distance anyway.

@suzyQ3 Not all DMV offices are the same, At my DMV, the chart is ridiculously far away, couldn't believe it, so this time, I am going to give them an earful.

Well, the readers I was told to get are the same as the regular but a very low number. The cheapies in my eye doctor's office are wonderful so will ask her where I can get those, want to be as prepared as possible for the DMV eye test, what a pain!

I see perfectly fine up close and at a distance, but tiny letters far away, who can read those, and who would need to, nobody except when at the DMV.

Okay, @mousiegirl . I must be missing something about reading glasses. Regardless, if you have any amount of abnormal trouble with small print at a distance, you should have glassses that correct that.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland