How to Change Your Name on a Commuter's License or State ID Card

To alter your name on your driver's license or state ID carte, you must visit a branch office and present:

  • Your valid driver's license or state ID card
  • Proof of the name change. Y'all'll need to bring in a certified name-change document, such as your wedlock license or court club. Multiple documents may exist needed if your proper name has changed more than in one case. Proper noun-alter documents must show both the inverse name and the previous proper noun. Divorce decrees may be used if they are certified (copies aren't accepted) and if they show the changed proper name and the previous proper name.
  • The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Assistants requires proof of Legal Presence when correcting a commercial driver's license.

A fee will exist charged to correct your proper noun and a new photo will be taken.  If your commuter's license or country ID card is due to expire within a few months, you may renew it early on.

If you lot don't inform the Social Security Administration of your proper noun change, the Section of State can't process your commuter's license or state ID card awarding. The department verifies all names and Social Security numbers before issuing a license or ID card. If your name and date of birth don't match with what is on file at the Social Security Administration, your awarding will exist denied. To process a proper name change with the Social Security Administration, y'all must provide proof of your identity, legal presence and name change. Additional proof may be requested.

Declining to inform the Social Security Administration of your name change volition delay the processing of your license or country ID card awarding at renewal. The department verifies all names and Social Security numbers before issuing a license or ID carte. If your name and date of birth don't match with what is on file at the Social Security Assistants, your renewal awarding volition exist denied.


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