UK Driving License when passed US test
Sep 3rd 2007, 4:08 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
OH BOLLOX! YOU'RE MOVING TO GEORGIA! DAMN & BLAST!!!!
Sep 3rd 2007, 4:12 am
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Sep 3rd 2007, 4:13 am
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Sep 3rd 2007, 4:13 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
OK.
Here it states that you must surrender an out-of-state license when receiving a GA license.
But there's a link at the top of the page saying:
Click here if you are not a US Citizen
...and that makes no mention of surrendering any license.
Here it states that you must surrender an out-of-state license when receiving a GA license.
But there's a link at the top of the page saying:
Click here if you are not a US Citizen
...and that makes no mention of surrendering any license.
Sep 3rd 2007, 4:14 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
Sep 3rd 2007, 4:20 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
I spoke too soon.
It clearly states HERE that you must surrender all foreign drivers licenses.
I take it back, GA is clearly full of paranoid xenophobic hicks in bureaucratic positions. FFS don't wear a turban when you go to the DMV!
So yeah, get yourself a duplicate license from the UK. The Georgia DMV may have no legal right whatsoever to take your UK license away, but they're damn well going to do it anyway, boy!
It clearly states HERE that you must surrender all foreign drivers licenses.
I take it back, GA is clearly full of paranoid xenophobic hicks in bureaucratic positions. FFS don't wear a turban when you go to the DMV!
So yeah, get yourself a duplicate license from the UK. The Georgia DMV may have no legal right whatsoever to take your UK license away, but they're damn well going to do it anyway, boy!
Sep 3rd 2007, 4:24 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
I spoke too soon.
It clearly states HERE that you must surrender all foreign drivers licenses.
I take it back, GA is clearly full of paranoid xenophobic hicks in bureaucratic positions. FFS don't wear a turban when you go to the DMV!
So yeah, get yourself a duplicate license from the UK. The Georgia DMV may have no legal right whatsoever to take your UK license away, but they're damn well going to do it anyway, boy!
It clearly states HERE that you must surrender all foreign drivers licenses.
I take it back, GA is clearly full of paranoid xenophobic hicks in bureaucratic positions. FFS don't wear a turban when you go to the DMV!
So yeah, get yourself a duplicate license from the UK. The Georgia DMV may have no legal right whatsoever to take your UK license away, but they're damn well going to do it anyway, boy!
I think I'll ask them what they intend on doing with it, and if they are going to destroy it - i'd like them to do it in front of me
Sep 3rd 2007, 4:40 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
Personally, spare or not, I'd show up without it (or at least with it in another pocket) and not volunteer it in the first place. Pisses me off, the idea that they think they have a right to confiscate another nation's official documents like that.
Sep 3rd 2007, 5:08 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
I spoke too soon.
It clearly states HERE that you must surrender all foreign drivers licenses.
I take it back, GA is clearly full of paranoid xenophobic hicks in bureaucratic positions. FFS don't wear a turban when you go to the DMV!
So yeah, get yourself a duplicate license from the UK. The Georgia DMV may have no legal right whatsoever to take your UK license away, but they're damn well going to do it anyway, boy!
It clearly states HERE that you must surrender all foreign drivers licenses.
I take it back, GA is clearly full of paranoid xenophobic hicks in bureaucratic positions. FFS don't wear a turban when you go to the DMV!
So yeah, get yourself a duplicate license from the UK. The Georgia DMV may have no legal right whatsoever to take your UK license away, but they're damn well going to do it anyway, boy!
Sep 3rd 2007, 6:01 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
Don't offer to hand it over. If they insist tell them it's the property of Her Majesty's Government. Last year the cruise company we were travelling with insisted on collecting passports before departure...they were to be given back at the end of the cruise. I refused...told them they had no authority to take my British passport it belonged to the Crown.
BTW we're in New Jersey and we didn't hand ours in...although we did read somewhere we were supposed to.
BTW we're in New Jersey and we didn't hand ours in...although we did read somewhere we were supposed to.
Sep 3rd 2007, 6:41 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
I still have my UK National identity card and quite a few petrol coupons nobody ever wanted them either...
The gas mask ..I threw away ...
The gas mask ..I threw away ...
Sep 3rd 2007, 6:49 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
FWIW, I have held US drivers licenses in Massachusetts and in Minnesota and on neither occasion have I been asked ot surrender my UK licence.
YMMV
YMMV
Sep 3rd 2007, 8:23 am
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Re: UK Driving License when passed US test
Interesting thread. When I moved to the UK fom Australia I had to send my Victorian licence to the DVLA and apparantly they send it back to the issuing authority to have it cancelled. I imagine they do a similar thing in GA? i.e. they send it back to the DVLA.
