Ms. On the Road Again (Motra)
Motra comes into our office to renew her driver's license. Now in our state (true for most states, but still have some variation from state to state), you must have what we call Legal Presence. This means that either you are a US citizen and can prove it, or you can furnish us with proof that you are legally in the US. If you have a Limited Legal Presence (say your visa is only good for 2 years), then your driver's license will expire the exact same day your visa does. Also, we are unbearably busy right now. So busy that the line at times is literally out the door, and we are stressed to the max.
Motra's Visa expired in June, as did her license. She wants us to renew her license even though she has not renewed her Visa. You see, she had been very busy and she had turned in her application to renew her Visa - one month late. She is also waving around a copy of the Federal register, saying that we have to grant her a 40 day extension per Federal law. Um, no. The Federal law says that they have to allow you to continue to work for 40 days while your application is pending. Nothing says that applies to your driving privileges.
She rolls her eyes at me. Everyone knows that you have to able to drive in order to work! Really? That is going to be news to those people who work and have never had a license.
She starts talking about her lawyer: yada, yada, yada, her lawyer, yada, yada, court case, sue. I have heard this spiel before, and quite frankly, it doesn't mean a thing for me. She does ask for her case number, and I go onto the computer to look up the case we just opened on her. That is when I look up at her: "You have been a busy person today, haven't you?" My office is the fourth one she has bothered today. Every one has given her the same answer. Every one has opened an Immigration case on her (which, by the way, costs the state money). Four offices, and in my office, she has spent an hour arguing with 3 clerks before she got to me. So let's assume that was the standard. That means that 4 hours in 4 different offices was wasted arguing with her, and on a day when I don't have even 5 minutes to waste. I told her to pick an office and stick to it. "So, is anyone going to call me if I have been approved?" she whined. Well, I'm not going to. Go to the place you started at. That's the one that will have approval first since they submitted first. Wait 24 hours until you go there.
She hasn't been back.
Motra comes into our office to renew her driver's license. Now in our state (true for most states, but still have some variation from state to state), you must have what we call Legal Presence. This means that either you are a US citizen and can prove it, or you can furnish us with proof that you are legally in the US. If you have a Limited Legal Presence (say your visa is only good for 2 years), then your driver's license will expire the exact same day your visa does. Also, we are unbearably busy right now. So busy that the line at times is literally out the door, and we are stressed to the max.
Motra's Visa expired in June, as did her license. She wants us to renew her license even though she has not renewed her Visa. You see, she had been very busy and she had turned in her application to renew her Visa - one month late. She is also waving around a copy of the Federal register, saying that we have to grant her a 40 day extension per Federal law. Um, no. The Federal law says that they have to allow you to continue to work for 40 days while your application is pending. Nothing says that applies to your driving privileges.
She rolls her eyes at me. Everyone knows that you have to able to drive in order to work! Really? That is going to be news to those people who work and have never had a license.
She starts talking about her lawyer: yada, yada, yada, her lawyer, yada, yada, court case, sue. I have heard this spiel before, and quite frankly, it doesn't mean a thing for me. She does ask for her case number, and I go onto the computer to look up the case we just opened on her. That is when I look up at her: "You have been a busy person today, haven't you?" My office is the fourth one she has bothered today. Every one has given her the same answer. Every one has opened an Immigration case on her (which, by the way, costs the state money). Four offices, and in my office, she has spent an hour arguing with 3 clerks before she got to me. So let's assume that was the standard. That means that 4 hours in 4 different offices was wasted arguing with her, and on a day when I don't have even 5 minutes to waste. I told her to pick an office and stick to it. "So, is anyone going to call me if I have been approved?" she whined. Well, I'm not going to. Go to the place you started at. That's the one that will have approval first since they submitted first. Wait 24 hours until you go there.
She hasn't been back.
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