Timeline for Will the California DMV issue a REAL ID driver's license for six months if my green card expires in six months?
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| Jul 27, 2022 at 22:27 | comment | added | phoog | @Dennis if you add that as an answer, ping me, and I'll upvote it. There's no reason for this question to continue to be bumped to the top of the active list. | |
| Jul 27, 2022 at 18:14 | comment | added | Dennis | I applied for a RealID license at a CA DMV with an expired green card and an I-797 giving me a 1 year extension with 9 months remaining. My clerk told me I couldn't apply for RealID until the lady in the next booth told him he had to read the I-797. He then told me the license would expire in 9 months, as my wife's clerk told her she would note in the application file. What arrived in the mail, however, were full-term RealIDs. In California people who can prove they are LPRs when they apply get full-term licenses, whether the clerks know it or not. Only non-immigrants are limited. | |
| Jun 26, 2022 at 14:33 | comment | added | phoog | @user102008 I first got to that page through a link offering information relevant to non-US citizens, so it did not occur to me to consider how it might apply to US passports. | |
| Jun 25, 2022 at 16:03 | comment | added | user102008 | "No mention is made of an exception for LPRs." No mention is made of an exception for US citizens either, so taken literally, it would mean that if you used a US passport as your LP document, and it expires in less than 5 years, your DL would be limited term, which seems unlikely. | |
| Jun 25, 2022 at 9:12 | history | answered | phoog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |