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Reason #__ to Leave Seminole The "Tag Office."
Each state has its own way of dealing with license plates and driver's licenses. In Oklahoma, at least in small towns, there's simply a "Tag Office" (that's how it's listed in the phone book). That's the place where you get your license renewed or your car tag updated.
There's nothing wrong with that, in and of itself. The alternatives are to make everyone in the small town drive to a larger city, or to have a full DMV in every town. Neither makes sense.
But what we get is a small-town office where the people don't seem to know what's going on or what the rules are.
Background: When my wife first got her driver's license in Oklahoma, they mistakenly put her maiden name as her middle name. At the time, we figured it didn't matter. But, when her Social Security card was updated (for marriage), they
didn't use her maiden name as her middle name. To complicate matters, her passport still has her maiden name as her last name.
So:
Passport: (first name) (maiden name)
Social Sec.: (first name) (married name)
Okla. DL: (first name) (maiden name) (married name)
Three different names.
The passport is good for a few more years so there's no reason to change that -- we only use it when we fly. But the rest needs to be matched up, right? Especially now that we're applying for jobs and hoping to move out of state.
So, she called the "Tag Office" a while back and asked what needed to be done to change the name on her driver's license. They said, "Oh, just bring it in with a copy of your marriage license; we'll change it."
Today, she brought in the incorrect license along with the marriage license. You guessed it, the people at the Tag Office wouldn't change the driver's license.
Even though they'd already told her they could.
The end result is, her driver's license still has the incorrect name on it. So we're kind of in a quandary right now.
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