{"id":6512,"date":"2013-12-11T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T02:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2021-08-23T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:29:39","slug":"ab-60-undocumented-immigrants-preparation-to-receive-drivers-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/ab60-california\/ab60-bill\/ab-60-undocumented-immigrants-preparation-to-receive-drivers-license\/","title":{"rendered":"AB 60 \u2013 Undocumented Immigrants Preparation to Receive Driver\u2019s License"},"content":{"rendered":"
Assembly Bill 60, also known as AB 60<\/a>, the New Driver\u2019s License bill for California residents who do not have proof of legal U.S. immigration status, goes into effect on January 1, 2015.<\/p>\n To meet an anticipated flood of an estimated two million new applications for the permits, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is planning to draft new regulations and prepare field offices to meet the demand for new drivers\u2019 licenses<\/b>. DMV officials will consider opening temporary, additional locations and adding extra operating hours at current locations.<\/p>\n The DMV plans to adopt regulations that will detail how applicants can provide their identity and California residency. DMV officials also will propose a design for the license, which will be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for compliance with federal law.<\/b><\/p>\n What undocumented immigrants need to know:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n To provide guidance for acceptable identification documents, AB 60 directs the DMV to accept the following forms of documentation:<\/p>\n What <\/span><\/b>unlicensed drivers need to do:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Those un<\/b>documented immigrants<\/b> who are unlicensed and lack insurance should be taking steps now to ensure they\u2019re ready to take advantage of this new California law and qualify for their driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n So, what can an unlicensed driver do to prepare for AB 60? First things first \u2013 learn California\u2019s motor vehicle laws. DMV encourages future applicants for a driver’s license to prepare for the written exam by studying the California Driver Handbook, available on the DMV<\/acronym> webpage at www.dmv.ca.gov<\/a>. The website also features sample tests that can be helpful study material for the applicants. The California Driver Handbook is available in 10 languages at all DMV<\/acronym> field offices: English, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.<\/p>\n The implementation of AB 60 will make the roads safer for all of us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Are you concerned about obtaining a license or confused about AB 60? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Assembly Bill 60, also known as AB 60, the New Driver\u2019s License bill for California residents who do not have proof of legal U.S. immigration status, goes into effect on January 1, 2015. To meet an anticipated flood of an estimated two million new applications for the permits, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,315,314],"tags":[7,45,49,44],"importance":[],"type-content":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25689,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions\/25689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"importance","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/importance?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"type-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-content?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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