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hobbit709

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:00 AM Jun 2015

Just renewed my driver's license online. Went a hell of a lot easier than last time. [View all]

Last time I tried to do it online and it wouldn't let me.
So I go down to the DPS office and get told "My citizenship status was in question."
"Citizenship status. I thought it was called a DRIVER's license"
3 trips later, having to bring my original Austrian birth certificate, the official English translation thereof, my State Department form stating I was an American citizen by birth, and my DD-214, I finally got it renewed.
Even then the person looking it all over had to call their stuporvisor, who then called in another stuporvisor, before it was reluctantly approved.
I remarked that I had served in the USAF with a Top Secret clearance and I didn't have to go through all that.
"How did you get license then before?"
"I wasn't asked all this crap 40 years ago"

This time all I had to do was fill in the blanks, enter my credit card number and print out the temporary license. Took about 10 minutes.

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