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After tearing apart much of my apartment, I may have scraped up enough ID to replace my driver's license, which will take several weeks. However, I may have enough to get a Virginia Non-Driver ID, as well.

What I really care about is whether or not I have enough photo ID to fly. At the moment I've amassed:

1 very expired passport (it expired 8 years ago)
1 photo ID from undergrad studies with no expiration date and no signature, but it does have my SSN on it
1 photo id with signature from grad school, which is expired, but is a photo of me
1 (non-current, but no one needs to know that) work ID with photo and signature

I think this will be enough. The guy from Jet Blue I spoke to a couple of hours ago says the expired passport will be fine, but I'm not sure I feel okay travelling with just that. I think it should be enough ID.

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The expired passport should be sufficient.

Depending on how quickly you need to fly and what your cash situation is you can get an expedited new passport with your old one. There's a passport office somewhere near 20th & L streets downtown, if I recall. I forget how much extra it costs to expedite, and I'm not sure whether they'll expedite if you're simply flying domestic. Perhaps if you explain you're missing a drivers license they'll expedite anyway.

I was under 16 when my last passport was issued, which means I may not be able to expedite it. I've spoken to the airline who said my expired passport should be fine, but I've also (just in case) found a bunch of other photo ID, plus I've got a birth certificate and social security card. It's perhaps worth a phone call though...

Just curious, but why will it take several weeks to get a new Driver's license? I thought it would just be a matter of spending an afternoon at DMV?

Your passport, expired or not, should be plenty, so long as it still looks like you. But yeah, I'd bring all the other stuff just in case.

Maybe email someone at JetBlue and try to get a reply email with details of what's acceptable? Then you could also print that out and have it with you...

I never did change my driver's license to Virginia, so I've still got my New York license. New York doesn't issue licenses on the spot, they process them centrally and issue them by mail (one of the reasons they're somewhat harder to fake than other states.)

This may motivate me to turn in my New York license for a local one...I'd get a VA one except I have to take a road test, and who knows if I could pass a road test after this many years.

Does VA require all out-of-staters to take a road test?

Taking a road test is one of my big fears. I've never taken one.

If I can't turn in my old license, I have to take the road test before they'll issue a license. If I replace my license and then turn it in, they'll waive the road test.

How did you get a license without a road test?

In Kansas, if you passed drivers education, you didn't have to take a driving test.

I can't parallel park, I'd fail a driving test.

Interesting. I had to pass Driver's Ed, and take a road test, but I wanted a license when I was 17 instead of 18, which meant that Driver's Ed was required...if you wait til you're 18 it's not.

Weird. In Kansas, you could get your restricted license at 14 (daytime driving only, unless sent on a parental errand or driving for work) and then your real license at 16. Drivers Ed wasn't required, but if you took it and passed, you automatically got your license.

Ah... are you sure you have to do a road test? I didn't when I moved here from Louisiana... although without the valid license in hand, it might be trickier.

Good luck.

If I replace my NY license, I don't have to take the road test. If I don't replace my NY license I do have to.

Did you just have to hand in your LA license or did you have to take the knowledge tests?

I just had to hand in my LA license. And to be honest... I actually think that I had lost mine... I can't remember if I found it in time to turn it in or not. But I took no tests at all.

You should try calling DMV and asking... the website is a treasure trove of info, but I never can seem to find what I want, though Scherz is good at it.

Unless things have changed drastically, the expired passport will do. As would a drivers license.

If you have your social security card, or a voters registration card, those would work too, in conjunction with a photo ID. The school and work IDs won't do any good, though.

The passport photo was taken when I was 15. It mostly looks like me still, I think. I have both a social security card and voter registration card as well.

I used to fly with a student ID...that's interesting that I can't anymore.

As long as I can get on the plane, it matters not.

I used to fly with a student ID...that's interesting that I can't anymore.

I was instructed, especially after 9/11, to only accept a government issued ID. And as goofy as it sounds, even if it were from a state university, a student ID is not supposed to be considered "government issued." It has something to do with the inconsistent standards for issuing student IDs, I think; there's not One Way that All Schools Use, either for verification of identity or generating the actual ID, and thus it's not something that they can (cheaply) train airline employees to recognize.

But the passport, especially with a social security card and/or a voter registration card, is all definitely issued by a government agency, and works.

Reason number 897 that I'm glad I don't have to work there anymore...

As long as I can get on the plane, it matters not.

Exactly.

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