Immigration Voice. Home H. Priority Date. Temporary visitor status on my wife's license. As you all know that it's taking for ever especially for some countries like India. Unfortunately,NY DMV keeps the temporary visitor status on the driver licenses and it's illegal to drive with an expiry date eventhough the license is valid.
I get mine renewed every 2 years after getting my EAD renewed. But,in my wife's case she is a house wife and don't apply for an EAD except the initial one that came after I application in Then onwards,I am finding difficulty with extending her dates on the license.
In between in ,she got one year extension based on the I status after she came back from India. I went to DMV last week and they took couple of hours to talk with Albany state department and said that they can't help. She has her AP every year and the only document with a future date on it. I took an Infopass appointment and spoke with the Immigration officer.
He too couldn't help me and said that the only way is to get her EAD and get the extension which doesn't make any sense as she is not working. And an other option is to leave the country and enter again to get the I stamp on the AP. This involves Canadian stamping and so forth.
I know many of you might be in a similar situation if you are based out of NY state. Please advice with your suggestions and answers to this long lasting problem from Regards, Srinivas. Originally Posted by I If she is legally present in the US and can prove the date till which she is legally allowed to stay, she should be able to get drivers license based on that.
Normally, one would use I94 date as the basis for this - i'm not sure why her I94 doesnt have a future date that cannot be used? The original three-year rollout of the program was postponed several times, and as of December 31, , only 21 states were in full compliance, not including New York. However, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced a four-phase enforcement plan for the Real ID Act between and The first three phases will require compliant ID for access to certain types of federal facilities and nuclear power plants by January 19, The date for implementing phase four will be set after an evaluation of the first three phases, but will not occur before The full DHS announcement can be found here.
Other states, such as Texas, are even more restrictive. Immigrant advocate groups have opposed the inclusion of immigration status legends on state documents, arguing that they can lead to discrimination and unfair treatment of legal immigrants as well as reasonable confusion, even among the licensees, about the validity of licenses themselves.
And those concerns are entirely justified. The granting, maintenance, duration and extension of lawful immigration status are matters that are subject to extremely complicated and arcane rules and procedures that are beyond the purview of state agencies. It is the ultimate irony that cards designed to be so secure and genuine can be so flawed and unreliable with respect to immigration status data. Printer Friendly.
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