If there was a question whether DMVs across NC were denying drivers licenses to deferred action beneficiaries or not, ask no more. We woke up to clarification yesterday when this stance became official. The DMV has updated its website reflecting the Department of Transportation’s intolerance of immigrant youth.
Listed below are acceptable documents you can use as a non U.S. Citizen.
- I-551 Permanent Resident Card
- Machine Readable Immigrant visa
- I-766 Employment Authorization Card (must not reflect C33)
- Temporary I-551 stamp on I-94 or Passport
- I-327 Re-entry Permit with supporting immigration documentation
- I-94 Arrival/Departure Record
- I-20 accompanied by I-94
- DS-2019 accompanied by I-94
- I-571 Refugee Travel Document with supporting immigration documentation
- I-797 Notice of Action
- I-521L Authorization for Parole of an Alien into U.S. with supporting immigration documentation
- I-220B Order of supervision with supporting immigration documentation
The I-766 Employment Authorization Card (C33) is what is being issued to deferred action (DACA) receipients. Here the Department of Transportation / DMV specifically targets immigrant youth. They have claimed to media sources that the wording of legal presence vs legal status is confusing to them and they are unsure about the legality of issuing us drivers licenses. So they are seeking the opinion of Attorney General Roy Cooper and USCIS.
But why deny us licenses if all NCDOT needs is clarification from USCIS? And why now? It’s plain discriminatory! As we have pointed out before, deferred action has existed long before it was known as the directive from President Obama. Those who have been granted deferred action in the past and currently have no problem obtaining a license. But all of a sudden if you’re a DREAMer granted deferred action, you’re out of luck. Once again, we are used as political football. We cannot and will not remain silent!
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January 15, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Yoatzin
Yall realy need to fix this because some people including my self want to become a paramedic or Medical assistant and to become a paramed need a lincense to Drive the ambulance just imagine you need an ambulance to respont to your emergency, there is when you mine go back and think about giving license to the people that can become someone in life and someone that can help you in a bad situation!!!
January 15, 2013 at 7:03 pm
alysa
I have a lot of friends who are dreamers, they have done nothing wrong to deserve this its like the state is taunting them giveing them something and then taking it away. if they were criminals and i dont mean the only crime they commited was commming here i mean hard core criminals like robbers, drug dealers etc…i would agree why THOSE people should not get it but people like my friends and my future family, heck not future family…they already are should recieve their licenses. years ago MLKJR said “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”” these people are our equals and deserve the same rights as all americans do, they get the same punishments in jail but why not the same rights?! these kids came here because their parents knew that our flag stood for freedom, they wanted freedom for their families. they had a dream just like MLKJR, MLKJR got his dream american or not her got it so why cant these dreamers recieve theirs? “Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one” (john lennon)
when you were little everyone would ask what is your dream? some said become a model ,lawyer, doctor etc. if we can have our dreams then they can have theirs. GIVE THEM THEIR DREAM!