i went in for my very first license...and had all the documentation as you did.
the Indian behind the counter who i could barely understand said to me... "i need to see your green card."
excuse me? I have a birth certificate....
He said, "Yes, I see that. Everyone has a green card, I still need to your green card."
Papadoo's in Louisiana, so when he says "for decades" he's referring to the amount of time you wait there, not how long the system has been that way....
It's been a few years but when I moved to Sleaziana it took literally three months to get a driver's license. The first month was establishing residency (you had to live there 30 days) during which time my current license expired, so there was that bureaucracy-- writing back to the previous state for all kinds of documentation that wouldn't have been necessary had they simply processed my license before it expired.
Any calls to the DMV office at that time went unanswered, and when I went there in person I found out why, after wading thorugh a line that was literally out the door to the parking lot.... they had a wall phone that just kept ringing and ringing and eventually one of the clerks would just pick up the receiver and hang it up without answering it. Of course at the end of that line for whatever reason we still couldn't do the deed.
Then they sent me to another office. When I went to that address there was no such building. The postal service confirmed for me that the address they had given me does not exist.
Then I went again another week to another office, only to find that the office was closed for... are you sitting down? Good Friday. I swear, the DMV office was closed for a freaking Catholic holy day.
Finally on the next visit, having jumped through all the paperwork hoops, I went to yet another office and took the number (44 out of 100). By the time I finally got served, they had worked their way through to number 100 and back to 44 again, it took that long. And to top it off, at that time the state printed your social security number on your license. I always whited mine out.
Three months. Such is life in Louisiana. The usual response to which is to shrug one's shoulders and quip "oh well. That's New Orleans".
Papadoo's in Louisiana, so when he says "for decades" he's referring to the amount of time you wait there, not how long the system has been that way....
It's been a few years but when I moved to Sleaziana it took literally three months to get a driver's license. The first month was establishing residency (you had to live there 30 days) during which time my current license expired, so there was that bureaucracy-- writing back to the previous state for all kinds of documentation that wouldn't have been necessary had they simply processed my license before it expired.
Any calls to the DMV office at that time went unanswered, and when I went there in person I found out why, after wading thorugh a line that was literally out the door to the parking lot.... they had a wall phone that just kept ringing and ringing and eventually one of the clerks would just pick up the receiver and hang it up without answering it. Of course at the end of that line for whatever reason we still couldn't do the deed.
Then they sent me to another office. When I went to that address there was no such building. The postal service confirmed for me that the address they had given me does not exist.
Then I went again another week to another office, only to find that the office was closed for... are you sitting down? Good Friday. I swear, the DMV office was closed for a freaking Catholic holy day.
Finally on the next visit, having jumped through all the paperwork hoops, I went to yet another office and took the number (44 out of 100). By the time I finally got served, they had worked their way through to number 100 and back to 44 again, it took that long. And to top it off, at that time the state printed your social security number on your license. I always whited mine out.
Three months. Such is life in Louisiana. The usual response to which is to shrug one's shoulders and quip "oh well. That's New Orleans".
are you serious?.....it took me about 30 min to renew mine.....my sister moved to Nevada.....she got her new License and Plates for her Car right up at the Window day 1...
Papadoo's in Louisiana, so when he says "for decades" he's referring to the amount of time you wait there, not how long the system has been that way....
It's been a few years but when I moved to Sleaziana it took literally three months to get a driver's license. The first month was establishing residency (you had to live there 30 days) during which time my current license expired, so there was that bureaucracy-- writing back to the previous state for all kinds of documentation that wouldn't have been necessary had they simply processed my license before it expired.
Any calls to the DMV office at that time went unanswered, and when I went there in person I found out why, after wading thorugh a line that was literally out the door to the parking lot.... they had a wall phone that just kept ringing and ringing and eventually one of the clerks would just pick up the receiver and hang it up without answering it. Of course at the end of that line for whatever reason we still couldn't do the deed.
Then they sent me to another office. When I went to that address there was no such building. The postal service confirmed for me that the address they had given me does not exist.
Then I went again another week to another office, only to find that the office was closed for... are you sitting down? Good Friday. I swear, the DMV office was closed for a freaking Catholic holy day.
Finally on the next visit, having jumped through all the paperwork hoops, I went to yet another office and took the number (44 out of 100). By the time I finally got served, they had worked their way through to number 100 and back to 44 again, it took that long. And to top it off, at that time the state printed your social security number on your license. I always whited mine out.
Three months. Such is life in Louisiana. The usual response to which is to shrug one's shoulders and quip "oh well. That's New Orleans".
are you serious?.....it took me about 30 min to renew mine.....my sister moved to Nevada.....she got her new License and Plates for her Car right up at the Window day 1...
Yup, that's how it is in Carolina too. I think my last DL took maybe 15 minutes.
But Louisiana? Fuggetaboudit.
Yep and that's because the illegal immigrant issue has been debated so many times, there just isn't much new in the debate.
