Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave Richards wrote: > Austin, > > I think that's it. Anyone with a pulse, including some without a > pulse judging by the way they drive, can get a US driver's license. > I'm sure there are also a significant number of illegal aliens with > them, since it's more dangerous for them to be driving without a > license than it is to be an illegal. Correct. Getting a drivers license involves no citizenship questions. If you have a foreign license when you come to the U.S., you simply go to the state DMV and get it changed to a license for the state you live in, same as when you move from one state to another. In some cases they may make you take the written test (usually multiple choice) but that's it. > Also, I believe it is a legal > requirement to be able to provide a Social Security Number in order > to open a bank account, so non-citizens would need to have them, too. Yes. First of all, there are millions of legal Green Card holders, who are not citizens but otherwise have the same rights and obligations as U.S. citizens except for voting, holding office, jury duty and a few other items, and therefore have a S.S. number. In fact, I got my S.S. number when I came to Buffalo in 1979 to study at SUNY for 1 year. I had no idea why I was issued with it, but that has been my S.S. number ever since. > > > My limited understanding of US law indicates that there are only a > certain few documents that are accepted as proof of citizenship, > birth certificate, passport (which requires a birth certificate) and > naturalization certificate being about the only ones. ...assuming of course that you were born in the U.S. In a case like mine, passport or naturalization certificate would work, as would a voter registration card since that too requires you to be a citizen. Nathan > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html