WTF??? Stupid Observations
Okay, so this stupid observation has to do with the Oregon DMV and a U.S. Dept that was formed after 9-11. I am not mentioning the Dept by name, because I don't want to piss them off and have them violate any more of my civil liberties.
To renew your drivers license in Oregon now, even if you have had a license for 30 years you need to provide to the DMV a certified copy of your birth certificate and your social security card.
If you were married and your name is different than on your birth certificate, you also need to provide a certified copy of your marriage certificate.
But wait. If you have been married more than once and your name changed with each marriage and/or divorce, you also need the certified copy of the divorce decree indicating what your name is as of the time of divorce.
So, if you are a woman who has been married and divorced multiple times, you have to get all this crap to take to the DMV to document that you are the person on the birth certificate.
I looked up on line the steps to go through to get a certified copy of a birth certificate from L.A. County California. Guess what you need? To fill out some form that you download, have it notarized (which requires identification, which could be your Oregon Drivers License) and $17.
Do you see how stupid this is? You use your current drivers license to get a form sent in to the county who provides you with a certified copy of your birth certificate so you can take it in and get a new drivers license.
Does this make ANY sense at all?
I don't renew till 2010, but I need to get my passport updated. Hubby needs to get his done by the end of September.
It makes me glad that I did not change my name when we married. I said, the name on my birth certificate will be the name on my death certificate and that is how it is. If you can't deal, marry someone else. LOL He took the ring back for two weeks and then said he didn't care what my name was as long as I married him.
I really do not envy women in this situation because so many of them have been divorced, or they did change their names, or both. Women who are underpriveleged with no internet access and don't know how to look up the requirements on-line, download a couple of forms and addresses, have $17 per copy for each certificate requested.
Talk about disenfranchising people. WTF??? They can't grandfather you in if you've had a driver's license over 20 years? It makes no friggin' sense at all.
Sorry to rant here, but since it is that U.S. Dept that is probably behind this, you may want to check with your own DMV's to find out if your requirements have also changed, so you can get cracking on getting all those certified copies of stuff while you still have a valid form of identification to have stuff notarized. If your driver's license expires, you can't use that as valid ID then, you will really be screwed unless you know a notary personally who can vouch for you as personally known.
Oh, and the reason this was on my mind today is I was sitting in the bank looking through our safety deposit box looking for both of our birth certificates. I found mine but not his, so he is going to have to mail away for it tomorrow. Also his wallet was stolen over 20 years ago and he never got a duplicate social security card so he is going to get that now too.
Good times.
Here endeth the rant.