turns out Iowa has changed their laws in July on how long you can wait until you need to renew your driver's license. I checked mine out yesterday while shopping and it expired March 7....2008!!!!!!!!! So when I got home I read everything I could find online (and you know that everything online is gospel) and they all agreed that in Iowa if you're over a year expired you have to take the written test AND the driving test to get your license back. I had visions of not driving for weeks. It took me THREE tries to pass it when I was a teen trying to get my license! This can't be good.
James in all his ever-frustrating-to-me calmness told me to relax, don't worry about it, you don't know what will happen, etc. So this morning I called our county seat's driver's license place. And, the regulations changed...you now have 1 year PLUS another 60 days to renew without having to take any tests again!! Oh I am just overjoyed!!!! Lesson learned. Please check the expiration date on your driver's license!
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Yikes! If I'm not mistaken, NY automatically sends you a new one in the mail when the old one expires. Plus, Arizona's licenses don't expire forever! (not literally but I forget how many years). When my husband had one (while in the Army) his didn't expire til he was 60!
This happened to me, too. Somehow I missed the renewal in the mail (it came right when Natalie was born) and forgot until several months later, when I tried to get a copy of her birth certificate from the County Recorder, and they said my license was expired.
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