Thread by @juliaioffe

Hello from the DC DMV, where, after presenting my documents—passport, birth certificate, Social Security card, copy of my parents’ naturalization certificate—officials have refused to issue me an ID under the new regulations of the Real ID act. 1/

I’m an educated person who has the privilege of being able to take time off work to spend hours dealing with this and who has all my documents. If I’m having this much trouble, then happens to people who can’t take off work, don’t have the originals of all their documents? 2/

But then again, that’s obviously the point. /end

People are asking, so let me clarify. I present MORE documents than necessary, but they were rendered invalid by the @dcdmv clerk and her supervisor:
1) My SSN card didn't count bc in 1990 someone spelled with a "Y" on it not a "J";
2) My birth certificate didn't count...

...because it's from another country ("that may be a document in _Russia_ or wherever it is you're from") but the notarized translation of it was rendered invalid;
3) Notarized copies of my parents' naturalization certificates don't count because...

a) It's not an original, but why would I, an adult, carry around the originals of my parents' naturalization certifiactes?;
b) It's not MY naturalization certificate but I was a minor when my parents were naturalized, so I was automatically naturalized and the U.S. doesn't...

...hand out naturalization documents to minors, other than passports;
4) My passport, which the @dcdmv supervisor tried hard to find a problem with but couldn't.
I shudder to think what happens when my passport expires. How, under these regulations, can I prove who I am?

How can anyone not born in the United States? Which, again, is very obviously the design of these new regulations.

(I brought four proofs of residency, but they wouldn't even look at those. So don't @ me.)