Friday

Ironic. Wasn’t it states like California that led to these new REAL ID standards by issuing unverified IDs to illegals?

We went through this earlier. Elena got hers just before the shutdowns closed everything. I found out the documents I had, which have been good enough for everybody all my life, were not good enough. I had to get certified copies of my birth certificate from San Francisco through a company that handles that for the CA government offices. Of course this cost a lot and took a long time, and during this time they shut the TX offices down, so it took me months longer than Elena. I did finally get it, but we waited all day in line outside one office to get hers. then made an appointment at a larger center in a nearby town so we only waited half a day. That toke care of hers but not mine. I was told I needed different documents than what I brought, so I went back later with the other one I had, on lt to be told after waiting thr4ough the line outside the building that it was still not good enough, so that led to the search for the CA copy. The docs I had had been good enough for Selective Service, CA DMV, Texas DMV, two marriages, one divorce, IRS, Medicare, SS, and everything else, but not Homeland Security. Glad it was finally done. I hope Mrs. Paddy can get it done. At least here, once you got to the person, they did not have you going through more lines. As you said though, an appointment still had you waiting through the line before you could tell anyone you had an appointment, and that could take an hour, so you needed to get there early. If you missed your time because you were in the line , you lost your “place”.