How to Change Your Proper noun on a Commuter's License or Country ID Card

To modify your name on your driver's license or state ID card, you must visit a co-operative part and present:

  • Your valid driver's license or land ID carte du jour
  • Proof of the proper noun change. You'll demand to bring in a certified name-modify document, such equally your wedlock license or courtroom order. Multiple documents may exist needed if your name has inverse more than once. Proper name-change documents must show both the changed name and the previous name. Divorce decrees may exist used if they are certified (copies aren't accepted) and if they show the changed name and the previous proper noun.
  • The Federal Motor Carrier Prophylactic Administration requires proof of Legal Presence when correcting a commercial driver's license.

A fee will exist charged to correct your name and a new photograph will be taken.  If your commuter's license or state ID carte du jour is due to elapse inside a few months, y'all may renew information technology early.

If you lot don't inform the Social Security Administration of your proper name alter, the Department of Land can't process your commuter's license or state ID card application. The department verifies all names and Social Security numbers before issuing a license or ID card. If your name and date of birth don't match with what is on file at the Social Security Administration, your application volition be denied. To process a proper noun modify with the Social Security Administration, y'all must provide proof of your identity, legal presence and proper name change. Additional proof may be requested.

Failing to inform the Social Security Administration of your name modify will delay the processing of your license or state ID card application at renewal. The department verifies all names and Social Security numbers before issuing a license or ID card. If your name and date of birth don't match with what is on file at the Social Security Administration, your renewal application will be denied.


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