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Posted from an immigration law firm website.

Illegal Immigrants with Deferred Action Can Get a Georgia Driver’s License

Betts & Associates

August 25, 2012

Not having a valid driver’s license is a significant obstacle for many undocumented workers. The driver’s license is an important way to get to jobs or school, but also much needed form of identification. Until a few years ago, getting a driver’s license was possible for all Georgia residents who could pass the written and road tests. But a national crackdown lead by anti-immigration forces, change that. Now, when applying for a license, you must present your full social security number, and proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful presence in the United States, which is not possible for those who were brought to this country as children and who are currently lacking lawful status. For those immigrants who obtain work permits under the deferred action plan created by President Obama, getting a Georgia driver’s license has become possible.

This week Attorney General Sam Olens wrote a letter to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal. The Associated Press reports that AG Olens, a Republican said in the letter, “While I do not agree with the actions of the President in issuing the directive, it has been implemented by the Department of Homeland Security, USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), and state law recognizes the approval of deferred action status as a basis for issuing a temporary driver’s license.” According to the article, this letter came after “a Georgia Department of Driver Services spokeswoman said last week that Georgia law considers those with deferred action status eligible for driver’s licenses and added that the agency would issue them unless it got other instructions.”

Although it might seem like this would be a universal decision, in many states governors are taking the opposite action and expressly barring their Departments of Motor Vehicles from issuing license. Not surprisingly, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is refusing to grant licenses. Following her lead are Nebraska and Texas. Though it is not completely clear if Governor Deal will follow the recommendation of his AG and the Georgia DDS, by seeking their guidance it suggests that he is interested in following their recommendations, particularly because to do otherwise would be at odds with his own party’s Attorney General.

In order to obtain a driver’s license in Georgia, a person will have to first apply and qualify for deferred action. Information on apply for these programs and how Betts and Associates might be able to help you can be found here and here. Once you have your work permit, you would then be eligible to apply.

Like any new driver, deferred action participants would first need to get a permit. and then after the required wait time, could apply for a license.

Drive safe and good luck!

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From the DGOL website. 

What is the Applicant Status Affidavit?
Georgia law requires that all applicants for UI benefits who are 18 years of age or older attest they are:

a United States citizen, or
a legal permanent resident, or
a non-citizen legally present in the United States.

–>The GDOL performs electronic verification of your lawful presence in the United States with the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS). The DDS validates the identity of individuals who indicate they have a Georgia-issued driver’s license or identification card.

If completion of the affidavit is required, you must present valid government-issued picture identification to a GDOL representative to complete the affidavit and have it notarized. If you are not a citizen of the United States, you must also present acceptable, unexpired employment authorization document(s). The GDOL will verify your registration status with the U. S. Department of Homeland Security. You cannot receive benefit payments until your lawful presence in the U.S. is verified.

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Sent August 13, 2020 at 1:38 PM.

Timothy,

Regarding question number four, to answer that you do what other agencies do is not a specific answer to my question. I am looking for a specific answer as to what code or response from SAVE does DOL receive for DACA recipients.

My question was and still is “Please tell me the code or response from the USCIS-operated SAVE verification program to the query from your office when a non-citizen with DACA makes an application for unemployment benefits if DACA status is known or noted during processing. I am aware that other issuing agencies receive a response of “employment authorized” from SAVE when making immigration status queries for DACA recipients.”

So, let me state my question again:

What is the code(s) and/or response(s) GA DOL receives from USCIS’s SAVE verification program on an immigration status query, originating from GA DOL offices, for DACA recipients?

Please reply ASAP as you have already had approximately one month to respond to these simple questions.
Regards,

Jeff Jones (signature)

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DOL response to Rep Jeff Jones letter of July 24, 2020

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:20 PM Timothy Mitchell wrote:

Representative Jones:

Your inquiry was forwarded to me for a response. In that regard, please find below in red the responses to your questions.

Please advise if you require additional information.

Tim Mitchell

General Counsel
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DOL response in bold.

(Q) Does the information from GBPI coincide with policy and practice in your office – does your office accept unexpired EADs from DACA recipients as proof of lawful presence?

If the claimant has a valid work permit, appropriate government issued identification and has sufficient wages in the base period, then the claimant will have a valid claim with eligibility to be determined.

(Q) Does your office accept, process and/or qualify UI applications from non-citizens with DACA?

To have a valid claim, all non-citizen claimant must have a valid work permit or appropriate government issued identification

(Q) I am aware that each EAD contains a status code from USCIS. Does your office use that code in inspecting and processing applications from non-citizens?

No

(Q) Please tell me the code or response from the USCIS-operated SAVE verification program to the query from your office when a non-citizen with DACA makes an application for unemployment benefits if DACA status is known or noted during processing. I am aware that other issuing agencies receive a response of “employment authorized” from SAVE when making immigration status queries for DACA recipients.

We do the same as other state agencies

Click on the toilet to read Tia Mitchell’s work.
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Today the AJC editors oozed out this slimer on Republican Congressman Buddy Carter. His offense? He attended an event to help stop human trafficking.

I’ll get back to it. We hoped the AJC would have gained some integrity after being cleansed of the Bert Roughton.

Rep. Buddy Carter attends human trafficking rally with QAnon ties

By Tia Mitchell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

—> Click on the toilet to read the AJC smear. <—

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Applicant status affidavit and Secure and Verifiable ID 

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Illegal aliens protest in Atlanta for in-state tuition in Georgia’s public universities. Photo: Education Writers Assoc.

The DACA policy announcement is here. 

Ask the next reporter who tells you DACA was an EO to show it to you!

Geeez…

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UPDATE # 2 – After sending an open records request to both city of Braselton (where the AJC tells readers Vital Foods plant is located) and to city of Gainesville, which is the address on the Vital Foods website, I received response from both informing me that the business is not located in either place – but in Hall County. So I sent a request directly to Hall County Business License Director Susan Rector. I admit that my request could have been more clear on the fact that I am looking for copies of the required documents for original issue AND annual renewals. I sent this August 17, 2020 10:37PM:

After reading a news report in the liberal AJC yesterday, I have sent open records requests (around 1;15 PM) to both the city of Braselton and the city of Gainesville asking for a look into Vital Foods poultry processing plant which the AJC says is in Braselton. According to the Vital Foods website, they are located in Gainesville.

Also, in the liberal AJC news piece, they say “many immigrants” cannot get Social Security Numbers. Which is nonsense. I also sent the below letter to the editor with little hope of publication.

Dear editor,

A recent AJC news story focused on Hispanics, “immigrants” and the Covid pandemic informs readers that some testing labs require Social Security Numbers and that “many immigrants don’t have them.” This assertion is another in an endless flow from the liberal media aimed at blurring the lines between immigrants and illegal aliens.

Real immigrants should have no problem obtaining an SSN. “Generally, only noncitizens authorized to work in the United States by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can get Social Security numbers, which are used to report a person’s wages to the government and to determine a person’s eligibility for Social Security benefits” (SSA).

It is true that illegal aliens working illegally don’t have their own SSNs, but they do use stolen numbers – it’s called identity theft.

Not for the first time, we offer AJC editors a foolproof method of discerning the difference between immigrants and illegal aliens: Immigrants do not require amnesty.

D.A. KING

MARIETTA

KING IS PRESIDENT OF THE DUSTIN INMAN SOCIETY

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Braselton business license office,

Using the time frame 2011 through and including 2020, please respond to this request with copies of all documents pertaining to the application for business license for Vital Foods LLC, including application, SAVE affidavit, E-Verify affidavit and Secure and Verifiable ID used to prove identity. I understand that ID copies may be partially redacted.

I am willing to pay all lawfully appraised research and or copy fees.

Please respond electronically. Please contact me with any questions.

Thank you,

D.A. King
Marietta
404-*******
DKing*********
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Gainesville business license office,

Using the time frame 2011 through and including 2020, please respond to this request with copies of all documents pertaining to the application for business license (original, if in this time frame and renewal) for Vital Foods LLC 2069 MemorialPark Dr., Gainesville, GA. 30504 including license application, SAVE affidavit, E-Verify affidavit and Secure and Verifiable ID used to prove identity. I understand that ID copies may be partially redacted.

I am willing to pay all lawfully appraised research and or copy fees.

Please respond electronically. Please contact me with any questions.

Thank you,

D.A. King
Marietta
404-******
DKing********

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UPDATE:

Reply from Gainesville

Dear Requestor:

This letter serves as notice that I have worked with staff on the Open Records Request Number 2020-0507 to obtain a copy of the business license from 2011 through 2020 pertaining to Vital Foods, LLC.  This request to include license application, SAVE affidavit, E-verify affidavit and Secure and Verifiable ID used to prove identity.

The City of Gainesville Administration Department of Finance performed a search and was unable to provide records in response to your request.   As such, there are no records to release.

Staff advised this company is located within the City of Gainesville, as it is located in the county.  You may contact Hall County via email at www.hallcounty.org.

Based upon the information referenced above, this request will be closed with no further action.  You may contact me with any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Sheryl Voyles

Records Specialist

City Manager’s Office

+1.770.535.6864

www.gainesville.org

I received a similar note from Braselton. I will post id I have time to find it.

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The below is posted for personal filing purposes only and will not make sense to most readers.

Utilization of federal work authorization program; “employee” defined; issuance of license; evidence of state licensure; annual reporting; standardized form affidavit; violation; investigations

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“We all live in the same house, if any one of us is illegal then we all are illegal.”

Curiously omitted from the gushing praise from the media: Civil Rights icon John Lewis was anti-enforcement on immigration.

Below: John Lewis, Member of Congress to about 5000 illegal aliens and their handlers in front of the Georgia state Capitol, protesting possible passage of HB 87, the “Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011” – March 24, 2011.

Section by section explanation of the enforcement legislation here. 

My newspaper column at the time (before blacklisting) with a description of the street-screamers protest and a short explanation of the Republican Establishment politics involved in opposing passage here.

HB 87 passed and is Georgia state law. Enforcement is largely ignored.

Transcript from Rev.com. Three-minute video below that.

John Lewis:
“Good afternoon, my sisters and brothers. Thank you to every one of you for being here. As Martin Luther King Jr said on one occasion, “There’s not anything more powerful than the commitment and the dedication of a determined people.” You are determined.

You, you must not give up. You must not give in. Continue to do everything possible to keep this bill from passing [crosstalk 00:00:44]. Many, many years ago, when I had all of my hair and a few pounds lighter. When I was involved, counseling in the civil rights movement, I got arrested a few times, 40 times.

I was beaten, left bloodied but I didn’t give up, and you must not give up. [crosstalk 00:01:22] immigration, it’s not a state issue, it is not a county issue, it is not a city issue, it is the issue of the National Government and not the Government of the state of Georgia.

As a matter of fact, we all are brothers and sisters. It doesn’t matter whether we’re Black, White, Latino, Asian American, Native American we’re one people, we’re one family.

We all live in the same house, if any one of us is illegal then we all are illegal. There’s no illegal human being. I’ve said over and over again, all across America, we must say out to the state of Georgia and to other states that we do not want Arizona-type legislation here in the state of Georgia.

So, keep it up. If any of you get arrested and go to jail, I’m prepared to get arrested and go to jail with you. If one of us are arrested, if one of us are put in jail, we all should be put in jail. The jails in Georgia, the jails of America are not large enough to hold all of us.

Get out there. Get out there. Make some noise, work hard and we will get justice here in the state of Georgia and all around America. Organize. Organize. Speak up, speak out, keep the faith.”