• You must renew your license every 8 years. Customers may be required to pass a vision test, knowledge exam, and the road skills test. • You’ll pay $32 to renew your license for 8 years. You may be eligible to receive a $5.00 discount. • and save time while visiting a Customer Service Center by completing the required form within 30 days leading up to your visit. • If you need to replace a lost or stolen license, you can. • for all road skills exams.

• You must visit a Department of Driver Services Customer Service Center to transfer an out-of-state or out-of-country license. Within 30 days of moving to Georgia you are required to visit the nearest Department of Driver Services (DDS). Bring along: • Your current license, • Proof of your Social Security number, • 2 proofs of Georgia residency (such as a bank statement, utility bill, or rental contract), and • Proof of identity (such as a birth certificate, passport, or immigration card). Additional documents required if you are changing your name. Visit the Department of Driver Services website to create a and be sure you arrive with the necessary documents.

You’ll be required to hand over your former license, pay the license fee, and receive a temporary license. You may also register to vote. Just a few weeks later, your permanent license will arrive by mail. Generally, you can for free either online or in person once during your current license period.

If you're within 5 months of your license expiration, however, you'll still need to pay the new license fee. Make sure your local postal office notes the address change on postal records before you go to the Customer Service Center. The Georgia Department of Driver Services uses these postal records to verify that address change. You can change the name on your license only by visiting a Customer Service Center in person. Within 60 days of an address or name change, you must update your driver’s license, driver's permit, or ID card.

Originally posted by Advantage Just my opinion, but its WAY too late to worry about real IDs and tracking. Youre tracked right now. Youve been tracked since your birth and since you received a social security number and everything youve done since ( drivers license, job, bank acct, internet access, a car, insurance, etc) you have been tracked. RFID in your license isnt a huge deal if you think about it. There is no SEND to it. And something has to be right on it to read it. Its not like drones are gonna read your license in your wallet.

Id suggest a little exercise. Start from your birth and consider all of the things that have entered you into databases and that required your proof of existence. Waaaaaay too late to worry about a little star on your DL. You have a point. But the RFID chip in the Driver's License is just one more control and a sign of the tightening of the net around us. And it's not just National control, but International control -- so NWO - One World Federation. Originally posted by AuranVector Originally posted by XeroOne You know, RFID chips are rather fragile.

The Real ID Act calls for states to abide by federal standards to issue identification documents, such as driver's licenses and ID cards. A congressional attempt to curb terrorism post-9/11, the act is being enforced in stages. The final stage of implementation, which targets air travel, is slated to begin Jan.

Some people accidentally destroy them by sticking them in the same pocket as their cell phone. Thank you for sharing that suggestion.

I will remember that -- you never know when it might be necessary. But I need to remind people that without the Gold Star you will not be allow to board a US commercial aircraft or do anything else the Secretary of Homeland Security decides on.

It wasn't really a suggestion, neither am I advocating the intentional destruction of RFID chips. I'm just saying sh!t happens sometimes. Originally posted by Mrgone Originally posted by AuranVector Originally posted by Mrgone I took an LED flashlight and held it directly to the back of mine, it's under a year old. This should allow you to see if there is anything under the surface. Mine has nothing If anyone finds something post your pic.

Let's see these buggers G Does your DL have a Gold Star on it? It's a MICRO-chip, are you sure it can be seen with the naked eye? No gold star. It's completely see-through with the flashlight. There are no hidden parts. Washington DL If you do not have a Gold Star, your DL is not chipped.

I don't think so. They will ask that all come in for the new licenses no matter what the expiration date is on your non-chipped card. “Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington have joined Maine and Utah in passing legislation opposing Real ID.” The Real ID Act: My State is one of the States that passed legislation opposing Real ID. It doesn’t matter, they’re doing it anyway. State compliance deadline is 2013, unless they have recently extended that.

Originally posted by Rivetlikewhoa I live in southern california and my new license doesn't have a gold star or say that it isn't proof of federal identification. Just a couple of extra bar codes and pictures on it. Personally I don't see what the big deal is about RFID chips in ID's or license. If you don't like the idea of it, then just leave your license in your car and carry your passport around as a form of ID.

Using your passport, I suspect, will only be a temporary fix. There is a serious move to replace the passport with a chipped 'Passport Card.'

In any case, I'm sure they will find a way to chip the passport. It's only a matter of time. Originally posted by knowledgedesired Chip the card and then make it mandatory for everyone to carry (which they already do) it because you need to drive then you have instant GPS on all driving citizens. The day is coming that we are going to find out just how small these devices can be and they are probably all around us and we just don't realize how sophisticated this technology really is at this point in time. NWO here we come. You won't even be able to take a dump in the woods in 10 years without it being monitored.

As far as I know, the RFID chip in the Driver's License is not a tracking device. In any case, they have all kinds of ways to track us now. I believe GPS is now going to be mandatory in all new cars. IPhones & SmartPhones can GPS track you.

I agree that all the tracking & spying technology will become even more difficult to detect and more pervasive. The first step to a cashless society is to force everyone in this society to have a Universal Unique Identifier. It does not need to be a 'chip', it can be any uniquely assigned number. Majalah Angkasa Edisi Koleksi Pdf. Your SSN if you are in America is an example. The purpose of having a chipped card is so it can later have a unit of account functionality. If anyone get's in the way of the political agenda, questions anything, or disobeys anything they can just shut off their chip.

Hungry, no where to go except to the 'criminal underworld' or die. The problem is they themselves are criminals that just have more power than a 2 bit street thug. The real reason for it is basically taxation. With a virtual account system, the taxation would be 100% enforcible with no say weither the tax is just or not. They will then feed off your work for their liveliehood like so many vampires. If we actually got services we could put to use for our taxes, it wouldn't be such a big deal because of economics of scale, but the use of our tax moneys for corporate bailouts, warfare, and bigger, scarier bombs is a huge waste of resources. This may not matter as it looks like WW-III is now here.

I am saddened by the ignorance of our species of the truth that is our existence that a child can understand, but so many have forgotten. Love, voulentary cooperation, sharing is the answer, not forced coersion using fear. It will be done, Thy will be done, may there be peace on this Earth.