I recently transferred my driver's license from Missouri to Illinois. Before 9-11, all you had to do to get a license in Illinois was show them a piece of mail with your address on it. Not anymore. Now, in addition to the mail, you have to have your Social Security card and a certified birth certificate. Fortunately I had both.
The whole rigamarole included those three things, plus surrending my old license. Some poor kid in there had gotten his first license before 9-11, so he had to show them his SS card to renew his license. When it was checked, it turned out when he was born and a number assigned to him, it as the number of a 100-year-old dead woman.
So, of course, he couldn't get his license renewed, until the problem was cleared. I have no idea how long it might take -- two weeks to six months. You know how bureacracies are...
I also had to retake the written driving test. Last time I took it, it was written and was pretty hard. Nowadays, it's on a computer where you can look at pictures and touch the screen, isn't one-fourth as hard, and you can take it three times and miss up to seven questions before you fail. The clerk told me not to even study, and she was right. I only missed there.
The test has been dumbed down a lot. I wonder why? All those wetbacks? But how are they going to get licenses without certified birth certificates and legitimate SS numbers? Maybe our schools have gotten so bad kids can't pass tests if they're not on computers.
Yay for Homeland Security! They're protecting us from Christian white boys from Illinois! Just like the kind who hijacked all those planes!