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Why do I have to prove old address for my passport?

state ID without proof of address?

  • Is it true that when I get a NY state non-driver ID card, they won't ask me to prove my street address? According to the DMV's http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/idlicense.htm, my passport plus my social security card are enough to get me a state ID. Neither of those two things shows a street address (and I have no proof of my address, and I've never had a driver's license or non-driver ID). Does this mean I could just write my address (or for that matter, any NY state address!) on the form at the DMV?

  • Answer:

    Yep. If you can't receive mail at the address you give them, then you won't be getting your hands on the ID card

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I have never had to prove my address to the NY DMV.

milarepa

I just got a new NY state driver license and didn't have to prove my address. We hadn't actually moved into our new place yet, but I wrote that address on the application anyway. I imagine the requirements for a non-driver card are the same.

defreckled

Huh! That is so funny, I just feel like I must be missing something because a state ID is considered acceptable proof of address in so many contexts (and how could it be considered that when you could declare any address to the state)?

sparrows

meehawl

Don't they mail it to the address you give them?

Brian James

They do mail you the ID.

frieze

In New York, situations that require proof of residency usually require utility bills instead of drivers' licenses (school enrollments, for example).

astruc

When my license came in, the address was misspelled; though I had it corrected, my jury duty and voter registration notices were mailed to me with the typo, as were my state IRS forms. It took awhile for things to settle down, but not without standing in line at the county clerk's office, and fielding phone calls at home. As a form of ID, a license is very much part of a paper trail.

Smart Dalek

I recently got my NY ID card with just my passport and social security card.

Melsky

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