welshgirl1

I've looked into this via the search button up top, but cannot find the answer...I am going to visit the DMV tomorrow, but was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this before I go...

I am living in Virginia, having coming out here end of January on a K1 visa. After the summer (late August / Early September) I will be looking to get my US driving license. I have not obtained it before now as we have not been able to afford for me to be put onto the car insurance, what with just my husband working.

However, on the VA DMV website it says that I have to show them proof of legal presence. One of the suggested items is an unexpired I94 but mine ran out in April.

Do you think it would be enough to show them my EAD card when it arrives?

Or will I have to wait until my PR application is (hopefully!) approved? I hope I don't have to wait at then or my job options will really be limited

Bob

DMV site should say what else they will accept...EAD should be good though and also a copy that your AOS has been accepted blablabla...

welshgirl1

Thanks Bob! I'll find out for certain tomorrow and report back...

Macca67

I took them an electricity bill with my name on it which they accepted. Mind you, that was in Milwaukee.

lisag8070

here you go, each state have their own rules so the VA rules would probably differ from any other...

http://www.dmv.state.va.us/webdoc/general/news/dlci.asp

MrEmjoy

I took my passport, SSN, and EAD, I didnt take a bill as I had my adress still attached to my SSN!

If I were you, I would go to the DMV with the expectation of having to leave again and go back! That way you wont be disappointed.

meauxna

Sheesh, they don't half make you work for it.
http://www.dmv.state.va.us/webdoc/pdf/dmv141.pdf

>>Unexpired Employment Authorization Card (I-688A, I-688B
or I-766

That's your EAD.

welshgirl1

Woohoo thank you!

meauxna

YW.
Did you check that out about the insurance, or just assume it would be a lot? Because mine went up amazingly little from adding the DH, so I wondered...
Another vehicle costs more of course (in all ways) but if it's just to get you driving... Also, you've probably noticed that driver's licenses are handy ID for all sorts of uses here. In fact, once you become a PR, you go get your SS card updated and you can use that and your DL when you get hired for a job and never have to show the green card.

(nothing's simple, is it)

Bob

Can't speak for out there, but here, adding the missus would have doubled the rate, then again she still hasnt' got a license, well it's more because we couldn't afford the insurance if she did.

welshgirl1

At the moment we are living paycheck to paycheck, only a couple of hundred dollars for anything that isn't bills or groceries, so can insurance was something that was on a back burner until I was a lot closer to working and bringing in a wage!

Kar98

When my wife put me and my car on her car insurance her premiums actually went DOWN. So now she's paying $200 less a year with one more car and one more driver, and I dropped my own insurance ($220/6 months).

made of kent

how did it work out? I am going tomorrow...for the 6th time! and hope this time I have everything including husband! the last problem, we need him and his passport! oh and they had brought a 8 hour study the week before, they hadn't bothered to tell me about when I phoned the day before! to check I had everything! 6th time lucky???

Lover not a fighter

Mrs Lover and I took our US driving tests the same day. Rang Travellers who reduced our premiums by half, which was fortunate as it equaled the GDP of a small African state.

Shortly afterwards I reversed the car into a brand new E620 AMG.

Of all the cars in all the world...............

lapin_windstar

The brain surgeon driving the Merc didn't get whiplash, too, did she?