Getting a Drivers License when you’re not a citizen:

[jrittenhouse]

For British expatriates in the USA, it’s a challenge.  In Mexico, you better be a legal resident.

“When it comes to foreigners, we’re a little more strict here,” said Alejandro Ruíz, director of education at the Mexican Automobile Association.

Comments

What part of "driver's" and "license" spells "identification" -?

[robin_june]

A Driver's license is a license to drive a car on public roads, to insure it, to vouch for the safety of its behavior when you are behind its wheel. All the license should imply is that you are mature and able-bodied enough to control the vehicle, and not imperil the people who share the road with your tons of moving mass.

Instead, it is used as an identification, a bona fide of territorial affiliation, and in extremes, demanded of those (such as the blind) who should never get behind the wheel of a car, but who deserve (but do not get) a different means of proving who they are.

I lived for about a decade with no valid driver's license: I simply didn't drive myself.
Once my expired license card was stolen, I couldn't replace it, and nobody wanted any of my other currently-valid forms of ID to pay by checks (at least, without a struggle).