{"id":12980,"date":"2018-10-25T20:56:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T01:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=12980"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:29:16","slug":"fast-fact-georgia-department-of-driver-services-says-georgia-drivers-license-idcard-not-proof-of-lawful-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/fast-fact-georgia-department-of-driver-services-says-georgia-drivers-license-idcard-not-proof-of-lawful-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Fact: Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) says Georgia drivers license\/ID Card not proof of lawful status &#8211; and much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12984\" style=\"width: 824px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ddslogo_large.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12984\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ddslogo_large.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ddslogo_large.png 814w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ddslogo_large-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ddslogo_large-768x274.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Georgia.gov<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8211;&gt;<\/span> &#8220;A Georgia DL\/ID is not proof of lawful status in the U.S. so it is important to note that an expired <a href=\"http:\/\/insideradvantage.com\/2018\/10\/23\/temporary-drivers-license-for-foreign-nationals-acceptable-id-at-georgia-polls\/\">LIMITED-TERM<\/a> card does not mean the person is in the country illegally.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dds.georgia.gov\/limited-term-dlids\">Here (4th paragraph)<\/a>, from the official DDS website. And&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/georgia\/2010\/title-21\/chapter-2\/article-11\/part-1\/21-2-417\/\">state law<\/a> allows even an <em>expired<\/em> drivers license as &#8220;proper identification&#8221; at the polls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BTW:<\/strong> This (DDS) is the same credential-issuing office that told a reporter &#8211; \u00a0in writing &#8211; that<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Those non-citizens in Deferred Action Status are eligible for GA licenses and IDs per the Federal <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/134351-dream-act-defeated-in-senate\">Dream Act<\/a> (assuming that they meet all other GA licensing criteria).\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/georgia-department-of-drivers-services-official-public-information-director-says-dds-policy-on-issuing-drivers-licenses-to-illegal-aliens-with-deferred-action-on-deportation-is-per-the-federal-dream\/\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Bonus fact:<\/strong> DDS now issues credentials to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/state--regional-govt--politics\/immigrants-without-legal-status-sue-for-georgia-driver-licenses\/jAkDGbSHB9q2jgLKbzfBBP\/\">illegal aliens<\/a> in Employment Authorization Code category C-18. You can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sccgov.org\/ssa\/cp\/cpchap12.pdf\">USCIS description of code &#8216;C-18&#8217; here on page 12-23<\/a>. Very educational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211;&gt; &#8220;A Georgia DL\/ID is not proof of lawful status in the U.S. so it is important to note that an expired LIMITED-TERM card does not mean the person is in the country illegally.&#8221; Here (4th paragraph), from the official DDS website. And&#8230;state law allows even an expired drivers license as &#8220;proper identification&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12980"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13000,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions\/13000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}