Married women face REAL ID documentation hurdles: 'I can't accept this'

Some joined women crossed the U.S. are sharing that they've been facing unexpected hurdles successful obtaining their REAL ID arsenic the May 7th deadline looms to person the documentation to alert domestically.

The communal obstacle among them is proving their sanction alteration owed to matrimony without having successful their possession their archetypal matrimony certificate needed to verify that change.

It has go a logistical nightmare, for example, for Dorothy Ballone — formerly Hotchkiss — of Rochester, New York. She's been connected a ngo to effort to get her archetypal matrimony certificate from 67 years ago, she told Fox News Digital this week.

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The nonagenarian has been moving since February to way down the authentic papers since being turned down connected her archetypal travel to the Department of Motor Vehicles successful New York.

"I recovered online each the documents that I would need, my Social Security [card], my commencement certificate. A mates of things stating wherever you live, similar your inferior measure and your slope statement, worldly similar that — and your matrimony license," said Ballone. 

A REAL ID motion reminding travelers of the documentation they request is shown supra successful an airdrome this week.  (Fox News Digital)

"I had adjacent much documents than that with me."

She arrived astatine the DMV with a transcript of her matrimony licence from Aug. 19, 1958, on with certification stating that the papers was an nonstop photocopy of the archetypal with a notary public's stamp and each applicable information.  

"I enactment each my documents connected the counter, and [a clerk] pulled retired the matrimony licence and said, 'I can't judge this.' And I said, ‘Why not?’ She said, 'It's a copy.' And I said, 'That's each I have.' And she said, ‘No, I request the original,’" Ballone told Fox News Digital. 

She went connected a chaotic goose pursuit to effort to get her archetypal matrimony license. 

Ballone said she was told to spell to her religion to get the original.

Ballone reached retired to the religion successful East Rochester wherever she was married, and was told the religion does not person matrimony licenses dating backmost that far.

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She past went connected a chaotic goose pursuit arsenic she tried to get her archetypal matrimony licence — reaching retired to section clerks' offices, authorities officials, adjacent the Diocese of Rochester.

The metropolis of Rochester yet claimed to person the archetypal matrimony licence — and mailed it.

Some joined women nationwide are facing unexpected hurdles arsenic they effort to get their REAL ID successful clip for the May 7th deadline.  (Fox News Digital)

The papers she received was certified, yet Ballone was denied a REAL ID erstwhile again, she said.

She has been successful interaction with her section assemblywoman and the adjunct commissioner of the New York Department of Motor Vehicles, she told Fox News Digital. 

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Even though she's lived nether her joined sanction for decades and has a driver’s licence bearing her joined name, the authorities has continued to contradict her REAL ID application, Ballone said, until she provides her authoritative matrimony document.

They've heard from DMV officials that this has go an issue.

Ballone told Fox News Digital that 2 of her neighbors are having the aforesaid contented with tracking down their archetypal matrimony licenses. 

They said they've heard from DMV officials that this has go an issue.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the metropolis of Rochester, New York. 

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Fox News Digital spoke with travelers astatine the Ronald Reagan National Airport successful Washington, D.C., this week to get their thoughts astir the REAL ID process with May 7 conscionable a week away.

Alicia from Minneapolis, Minnesota, told Fox News Digital that she, too, has been having issues obtaining her REAL ID owed to her changed name.

Some radical are having an contented with tracking down their archetypal matrimony licenses, they said — and person heard from DMV officials that this has go an contented arsenic radical effort to get their REAL ID. (Fox News Digital)

"I'm a stay-at-home mom, truthful I don't person a paycheck delivered. So it was a small harder to person each the forms of [identifications]," she told Fox News Digital. 

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"I went 1 time, and past I had to spell backmost a 2nd clip due to the fact that I was missing our matrimony certificate due to the fact that my sanction had changed, truthful it was a small much analyzable for me," said Alicia, who did not stock her past name.

Some joined women (not pictured) person told Fox News Digital that their REAL ID exertion process has go a hassle. They've been asked to supply their authoritative matrimony licenses — and immoderate don't person that archetypal document. (iStock; Fox News Digital)

"I had a babe with me, truthful [this has been] annoying," she added.

As the enforcement deadline of May 7 approaches, these women accidental they’re racing the clock. 

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the TSA for remark connected the topic. 

A spokesperson responded, "This would beryllium a authorities documentation requirement, truthful delight interaction the [individual] states wherever this mightiness beryllium an issue."

Fox News Digital reached retired to New York State for comment.