I lived in NY state for a short time. Turns out, to get a photo ID or driver’s license there you have to have birth certificate && social security card && 6 points worth of qualifying documents. Most people aren’t super likely to be able to produce 6 points of documents (I got up to 2 points), but you can use a state issued photo ID for all 6 points. Oh, and if your name has a numeral after it (III, for example), that numeral must be present on each and every one of those documents, or they don’t count. I don’t know if it’s changed since, but I went without a photo ID while I lived there.
Likewise in NY, if you want to change your name after getting married, your marriage certificate had better look exactly like the clerk expects. Even with an already-changed social security card, the old card, a birth certificate, and an out-of-state marriage certificate, you’re out of luck getting your driver’s licence updated.
I currently work in intermodal rail (interfacing the rail and trucking industries). If you’re bringing a shipping container (or trailer) in, all your paperwork had better be in order before you come to the gate to check in. Else you usually have to physically leave the property before you’re allowed to try again, even if you could fix the issue in a few seconds on the phone. Folks hate that one pretty hard, but I can actually explain where it comes from. Turns out somebody up in corporate doesn’t like drivers hanging around on the property where they could get bored and cause trouble, thinks somebody might hide a bomb or something in one of those shipping containers, and dislikes the bottleneck that proceeds from several people having problems at once and all sticking around while they call their companies to get it fixed.
The number of reports we have to file for the purpose of proving that we filed the reports is astonishing. Many of them contain large swaths of the same information as other reports, as well. We look up nearly all that information on the automated reports system, then have to copy-paste them into spreadsheets and emails.
I even have to send the emails if the reports are empty because what we’re reporting on didn’t happen that day. There’s no special format for this, I just send an email with a blank body to prevent getting an email asking why I didn’t file the report.
I grew up on Long Island and agree that the ID points rules are hard for a lot of people to fulfill. If you’re under 21, and have a birth certificate and social security card, then you just need your parents to say you are who you claim, though. That is, as long as they have ID.
I lived in NY state for a short time. Turns out, to get a photo ID or driver’s license there you have to have birth certificate && social security card && 6 points worth of qualifying documents. Most people aren’t super likely to be able to produce 6 points of documents (I got up to 2 points), but you can use a state issued photo ID for all 6 points. Oh, and if your name has a numeral after it (III, for example), that numeral must be present on each and every one of those documents, or they don’t count. I don’t know if it’s changed since, but I went without a photo ID while I lived there.
Likewise in NY, if you want to change your name after getting married, your marriage certificate had better look exactly like the clerk expects. Even with an already-changed social security card, the old card, a birth certificate, and an out-of-state marriage certificate, you’re out of luck getting your driver’s licence updated.
I currently work in intermodal rail (interfacing the rail and trucking industries). If you’re bringing a shipping container (or trailer) in, all your paperwork had better be in order before you come to the gate to check in. Else you usually have to physically leave the property before you’re allowed to try again, even if you could fix the issue in a few seconds on the phone.
Folks hate that one pretty hard, but I can actually explain where it comes from. Turns out somebody up in corporate doesn’t like drivers hanging around on the property where they could get bored and cause trouble, thinks somebody might hide a bomb or something in one of those shipping containers, and dislikes the bottleneck that proceeds from several people having problems at once and all sticking around while they call their companies to get it fixed.
The number of reports we have to file for the purpose of proving that we filed the reports is astonishing. Many of them contain large swaths of the same information as other reports, as well. We look up nearly all that information on the automated reports system, then have to copy-paste them into spreadsheets and emails.
I even have to send the emails if the reports are empty because what we’re reporting on didn’t happen that day. There’s no special format for this, I just send an email with a blank body to prevent getting an email asking why I didn’t file the report.
I grew up on Long Island and agree that the ID points rules are hard for a lot of people to fulfill. If you’re under 21, and have a birth certificate and social security card, then you just need your parents to say you are who you claim, though. That is, as long as they have ID.