Comments on: Getting a State Identification Card at the Driving Licence Office http://app2us.com/blog/travel-and-transport/getting-a-state-identification-card-at-the-driving-licence-office/ A resource for students applying to Universities in USA Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:34:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: app2usadvisor http://app2us.com/blog/travel-and-transport/getting-a-state-identification-card-at-the-driving-licence-office/comment-page-1/#comment-756 app2usadvisor Sat, 08 May 2010 08:40:27 +0000 http://app2us.com/blog/?p=187#comment-756 Thank you for your comment. You are right that in some state's the dependent wife of an international students, who is on F-2 visa, may not qualify to get a Social Security Number and a State ID. However a state Driver license of state ID has no corelation with a state residency. Lets assume Xi Yu is an international student, and has got a TA. So he ie earning, gets a Social Security Number. He does not want to drive so he applies for a state ID. For next six years that he spends as a PhD student, he will have a state ID, or even a state driver license if he learns to drive, say, after 3 years. However his ID or his license in no way qualifies him for a in-state resident status. I know a freind who landed in the US and got the ID next week. However rules keep on changing and vary from state to state. Thank you for your comment.

You are right that in some state’s the dependent wife of an international students, who is on F-2 visa, may not qualify to get a Social Security Number and a State ID.

However a state Driver license of state ID has no corelation with a state residency. Lets assume Xi Yu is an international student, and has got a TA. So he ie earning, gets a Social Security Number. He does not want to drive so he applies for a state ID. For next six years that he spends as a PhD student, he will have a state ID, or even a state driver license if he learns to drive, say, after 3 years. However his ID or his license in no way qualifies him for a in-state resident status.

I know a freind who landed in the US and got the ID next week. However rules keep on changing and vary from state to state.

]]> By: alaivani http://app2us.com/blog/travel-and-transport/getting-a-state-identification-card-at-the-driving-licence-office/comment-page-1/#comment-741 alaivani Tue, 04 May 2010 11:02:09 +0000 http://app2us.com/blog/?p=187#comment-741 This is a great post and superb advice! I wonder if you can clarify one part of this process, and I am sorry if you have mentioned this in your article, and I missed it. To get the non-driver's license, a social security number is needed. I was looking this up for a friend of mine here on a dependent visa (spouse). She is not eligible because if one is here on certain classifications of visa, these visa holders are not eligible to get social security number. Also, different states have different rules about how to prove residency, including how long one must live in a particular area to claim residency. This being true, a person who just lands in US may not be eligible for this ID if they have not been here long enough to show residency. Generally in US colleges, residency is also required for qualification of in-state tuition, so someone in the college should be able to give this info, or it could be on the college's website. This is a great post and superb advice!
I wonder if you can clarify one part of this process, and I am sorry if you have mentioned this in your article, and I missed it.
To get the non-driver’s license, a social security number is needed. I was looking this up for a friend of mine here on a dependent visa (spouse). She is not eligible because if one is here on certain classifications of visa, these visa holders are not eligible to get social security number.
Also, different states have different rules about how to prove residency, including how long one must live in a particular area to claim residency. This being true, a person who just lands in US may not be eligible for this ID if they have not been here long enough to show residency. Generally in US colleges, residency is also required for qualification of in-state tuition, so someone in the college should be able to give this info, or it could be on the college’s website.

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