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and went today to do so. I use a NYS Non-driver ID card since I don't drive, but it is treated as a license for ID purposes. It expires in a few months and I just discovered that they now require a social security card to renew it, and that I have to do it in person. You can renew a driver's license by mail or online, but maybe they figure terrorists' are more likely to go with the other kind.
I'd lost my SS card years ago. I downloaded the form from the Net, filled it out, and went to a local office close to where I live. The woman looks up my info on the computer and says to me 'your father's name doesn't match'. She was still going to process my request but I was really confused. So I said is it this, is it that and she kept saying 'no'. (To confuse matters, his birth certificate was written out in Italian by the midwife who delivered him in New Jersey way back when, and she had switched his first & middle names around incorrectly. ) I was starting to wonder whether my mother had concealed something from me for the last 40 decades! Finally, I asked her if the last name was the same and it was LOL. Then it hit me that he might have used a common abbreviation of his first name (like Greg, instead of Gregory) and that's what it turned out to be.
Thanks for sharing that with us Zara:)....I'm glad that you are who you thought you were...LOL!!!
I got pulled over once by a state trooper, and he said they had no record of my drivers lisence (I was starting to freak out thinking they were gonna haul me off) come to find out they transposed one of the numbers in my lisence, so I was finally off the hook.........after I went through all the harrassments by the officer!!
more interesting lol was the man standing at the next window. He seemed to be having problems with them, having been there before. I heard the clerk ask him where he was born, and he said that he didn't know. Then he said 'I'm a Traveler, you know, a Gypsy. We move all over the place so I don't know where I was born'. Then there were 4 clerks around him.
The last thing I heard him say was "I just want to be here as a real person." He also mentioned that he had a lawyer, so hopefully he was going to get his card.
Zara, I'm also glad you are who you are.
:D
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Those places annoy me :mad: ....DMV....SS office....I usually have to block at LEAST 3 hours out of my day to just take care of one thing at those places.
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I'm not looking forward to going to the DMV in Manhattan, but I lucked out with the Social Security place. They had a satellite office 3 blocks from here and while there were several people sitting & waiting for something, I just went to a window & was helped right away. I was pleasantly surprised!
I'd lost my SS card years ago. I downloaded the form from the Net, filled it out, and went to a local office close to where I live. The woman looks up my info on the computer and says to me 'your father's name doesn't match'. She was still going to process my request but I was really confused. So I said is it this, is it that and she kept saying 'no'. (To confuse matters, his birth certificate was written out in Italian by the midwife who delivered him in New Jersey way back when, and she had switched his first & middle names around incorrectly. ) I was starting to wonder whether my mother had concealed something from me for the last 40 decades! Finally, I asked her if the last name was the same and it was LOL. Then it hit me that he might have used a common abbreviation of his first name (like Greg, instead of Gregory) and that's what it turned out to be.
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Thanks for sharing that with us Zara:)....I'm glad that you are who you thought you were...LOL!!!
I got pulled over once by a state trooper, and he said they had no record of my drivers lisence (I was starting to freak out thinking they were gonna haul me off) come to find out they transposed one of the numbers in my lisence, so I was finally off the hook.........after I went through all the harrassments by the officer!!
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more interesting lol was the man standing at the next window. He seemed to be having problems with them, having been there before. I heard the clerk ask him where he was born, and he said that he didn't know. Then he said 'I'm a Traveler, you know, a Gypsy. We move all over the place so I don't know where I was born'. Then there were 4 clerks around him.
The last thing I heard him say was "I just want to be here as a real person." He also mentioned that he had a lawyer, so hopefully he was going to get his card.
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Zara, I'm also glad you are who you are.
:D
<rant>
Those places annoy me :mad: ....DMV....SS office....I usually have to block at LEAST 3 hours out of my day to just take care of one thing at those places.
</rant>
Answers:
I'm not looking forward to going to the DMV in Manhattan, but I lucked out with the Social Security place. They had a satellite office 3 blocks from here and while there were several people sitting & waiting for something, I just went to a window & was helped right away. I was pleasantly surprised!
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