Indiana - denied drivers licence because I-797 isn't proof

[Brian121957 43]

Has any body gone thru this in Indiana who never had any drivers license before? Someone who had to get a learners permit and take the driving test.

[Darnell 8,479]

FWIW - there are MANY versions of the I-797 document for AOS from a K-1 visa.

1 version for a receipt notice (which you presented)

1 version for the approval

1 version for the 'card production ordered'

1 version for an RFE.

it's all the same form letter number, alas.

that additional caveat, 'with an expiration date' is typically the formletter sent out

when

the Removal of Conditions Casefile has been received, it's a receipt notice that actually extends your lawful presence by a year.

I can't think of any 'AOS-specific I-797 formletter' that has an expiration date.

Edited October 26, 2011 by Darnell

[Moomin 292]

Has any body gone thru this in Indiana who never had any drivers license before? Someone who had to get a learners permit and take the driving test.

You can get a learner's permit. If you haven't had a driver's license before you have to get the permit for 180 days and have 50 hours of driving with someone in the car before applying for a driver's license/do the driving test. The learner's permit expires when your i-94 expires unless you have EAD or greencard before the i94 expires. Otherwise you start from scratch again. If someone has other info plase share-share-share

[wizardfitz 13]

I am in Indiana and had to wait til my Green card got approved and in hand before I could get my license. Thats just how it is.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Brian,

I stand to what I stated in my original post. Aside from multiple citizenship, driver license requirements are other pet peeve and I just had a closer look at Alabama and Indiana not long ago.

People don't know nothin'.

Here is where you have to look for answers, and even the Indiana BMV people are too stupid to look here:

1)

http://www.in.gov/bmv/2766.htm

2)

http://www.in.gov/bmv/2769.htm

[Barbara J 115]

Most places now require that you have your EAD card before you can get a drivers license. Even here in Augusta GA it says that all you need is EAD, passport and I still had to wait for my GC approval not that I had to have the papers in hand I got a call from DDS and they said I could now go and get my license.The 1st time I went in with EAD they tried to do it but the system would not accept me, Told me to come back in 2 weeks which I did still the system would not accept me told me to come back in 1 month. I did that and still nothing I rang the head office and they told me they were waiting for confirmation of my residency and once they go it they called me and told me to go in, I did my pc test and driving test the same day. Regardless that I have been driving for 30+ years I still had to take the test which was very simple. The 1st permit they gave me was only valid till my EAD expired then I went back in and got that fixed and it now expires when my GC does. All so bloody pedantic to me but I came here with an international permit from my home and could drive on that for 12 months.

They just wont let you do the test till you have GC approval or that EAD.

Edited October 26, 2011 by Barbara J

[David And Katie 5]

Ok guys thanks for all your help. I guess I'll keep quiet, drive safely and stay on or at the speed limit. No illegal turns and keep my nose clean

It just worries me that according to the BMV I can't prove my legal status. If an ICE officer (for example) wanted me to prove I'm here legally, what do I use? My I-94 is expired now, my visa has an expiration date of December (but we all know it expired already) and my NOA doesn't have a date.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Ok guys thanks for all your help. I guess I'll keep quiet, drive safely and stay on or at the speed limit. No illegal turns and keep my nose clean

It just worries me that according to the BMV I can't prove my legal status. If an ICE officer (for example) wanted me to prove I'm here legally, what do I use? My I-94 is expired now, my visa has an expiration date of December (but we all know it expired already) and my NOA doesn't have a date.

You use your NOA. It has the date you applied for AOS but you're right, you're still not 100% safe because you could have been denied after getting the receipt... no legal status there. Sometimes ICE will detain you until you go before an immigration judge who would release you.

Edited October 27, 2011 by Vanessa&Tony

[MarisolT 1]

Well I am already an INDIANA resident ... I'm not a US resident though. There's a difference.

However I think the BMV probably will take your definition.

Thanks. I am not worried, but its the local cops that will pull me over and question me about my licence.

As long as you dont do anything that prompts them to pull you over you should be fine... people around here drive w/o a license all the time (not that its ok, but...)