SD Drivers License Renewal

You can request an extension. My DH's expired in April and mine in July. He wrote for and was granted in writing an extension that was good to the end of that year. We went up in July and renewed both of them. In 2009, this was the number we called for the necessary form: 800.952.3696. I have read (from other posters), however, that you can renew up to 180 days prior.

Dale

Hang in there folks, SB45 is a bill to allow renewal of your license online or by mail every other time. It has passed the Senate and all committees unanimously, is awaiting vote in the House this week then the Governor.
Enactment will likely be by July, while the LRC and DOH make the rules and set up the system.
Go to sd.gov and read it!

2Scampers wrote:
Has anyone tried to renew their SD drivers license early. I will be traveling there this summer but my license are not due until next February. Was hoping to get it done six months early.

I suspect they would allow this, but why not call and confirm. I was up there 2 months before mine was to expire and had no issues.

Also, be sure to check the operating days for the office you hope to use - they are not all open every day.

SD regulations state that you can renew your license up to 180 days in advance.

Just like Scottiemom we had March & August birthdays. We called and got a 1 year extension for DH (didn't ask for that, just what they gave him) and when we were there in June, we renewed both. So, you can renew early or go the next year and renew after you get an extension. My 2 cent tip, go to Mitchell to renew, a very small office, no waiting!

missourijan wrote:
My 2 cent tip, go to Mitchell to renew, a very small office, no waiting!

Yes, if you check their website, there are several small towns that have a small office open just a handful of days per week. I went to the one in Hot Springs, which was convenient to then go visit the Mammoth Site.

Soooo... you are saying that you can renew your South Dakota driver's license in ANY county?

Carolyn

Don & Carolyn wrote:
Soooo... you are saying that you can renew your South Dakota driver's license in ANY county?

Carolyn

Well, it is a state driver license. And apparently so. My "domicile" is in Pennington County and Hot Springs is Fall River County. I never even thought to think about it and got it renewed with no issues.

Come to think of it, when I flew in years ago to get my license for the first time, found that the only day I would be there - Monday - the Rapid City office was closed. So I had to drive about 200 miles to the middle of nowhere to find an office that was open and get my license.

AFTERTHOUGHT...

Plus, when I got my license up in the middle of nowhere, I also registered to vote, and my voter registration was tied to Pennington County, so the county in which I got my driver license could not have mattered any less.

Is this the first time that you are renewing since the new regulations went into effect Jan 1, 2010?? Do you have a passport?? If you have a passport, you'll have a much easier time proving your identity.

We made the mistake of not taking the new regulations seriously. Cost us a lot of hassle and expense (appx $500) we could have avoided.

1. Women must prove their last name from birth certificate to now. (I was divorced and remarried...and never thought to bring my divorce papers along to the DMV.)

2. Hubby had lost his social security card 40 years ago. Never needed it until he tried to renew his SD driver's license in 2010.

If we had had passports in our hands before we stepped foot inside the DMV... we could have sailed in and sailed out with them in hand the first day we tried... instead of waiting 3 weeks for all the documents we needed to be mailed to us from different places in different states so we could be successful the 2nd time we tried to renew.

This is the long tale (copied from our blog):

We left our MH in Oregon and drove back to SD in the jeep. One of the main reasons for this trip back to SD was to renew our South Dakota driver’s licenses there. We didn’t realize that we’d need more documents to qualify for the SD license now than we would need to get passports. At least for me, that was true. To get a passport I just needed a current driver’s license, non-laminated social security card, a state certified original birth certificate, passport photo and about $100. BUT to get a SD DL, I needed my social security card and either a passport or a state certified birth certificate (showing my maiden name) and a state certified marriage certificate FOR EACH time I was married in order to prove my name from birth to present.

Lou has always had a City of Chicago original, certified, birth certificate but he has never bothered to get a State of Illinois original, certified, birth certificate. SD didn’t consider the City of Chicago original valid. They required a State of Illinois one. He didn’t have his social security card either (lost it as a teenager) and SD would not consider his Medicare card, voting card, 1099 or 1040 (all of which we had along) as documentation. That meant that we had a major problem.

Lou’s DL expired in March and he was driving on a one-time-only extension issued by the SD DMV that was going to expire May 15th. He couldn’t get a social security card at the Federal building in Huron, SD, without a CURRENT driver’s license. He couldn’t get a driver’s license without a social security card and he couldn’t get a birth certificate out of Illinois without a driver’s license. (I think I have that straight.)
He couldn’t get a birth certificate out of Illinois in less than two weeks anyway and today was May 4th, 2010. His license would expire on May 15th (which mean our vehicle insurance, in his name, would expire)and South Dakota DMV wouldn’t give him another extension.

So we left the building without either of us getting a renewed SD DL. We had quite a bit to think about and I have to admit that we didn’t get much “rest”. We were back at it the next morning and our sole hope was to get Lou’s City of Chicago birth certificate acknowledged and accepted by the SD DMV. It took prayer before we presented our case. (We didn’t have one yesterday. We were too stunned.) This time the gal behind the counter faxed a copy of Lou’s City of Chicago birth certificate to her supervisor in Sioux Falls and he agreed to allow us to use it for the driver’s license. Prayer worked.

Now, all we needed was his social security number to be proved to them, without a social security card. We needed a 1099 with his full name, full social security number and the title “1099” all on one page. The 1099 we had along had ONLY the last four digits of his social security number showing (xxx-xx-1234). Believe it or not, we had to have a trusted friend back in Oregon get into our RV, find our tax folder and fax a document that had Lou’s full ssn showing on it, to us at the DMV. All for a driver’s license. Keep in mind that we had our 1040’s with us. 1040’s don’t count.

As for me and my certified marriage certificates… that was just a matter of sending for them and waiting for them to get mailed to me. Oh, and paying for them (with postage it ran appx $50 per document). South Dakota is not the only state doing this so you might want to gather your paperwork together now.
If you are like us, and need two documents at $50 each, you might as well just get a passport for $100.
Actually, we opted to send for all of it because we just didn’t know which would make it to us first.

We spent 3 weeks with relatives in ND before all the documents (including our passports) were mailed to us at our SD mail forwarding service, then forwarded to us so we could drive back to SD with them in hand to get our Driver's licenses renewed.

louiskathy wrote:
Is this the first time that you are renewing since the new regulations went into effect Jan 1, 2010?? Do you have a passport?? If you have a passport, you'll have a much easier time proving your identity.

We made the mistake of not taking the new regulations seriously. Cost us a lot of hassle and expense (appx $500) we could have avoided.

1. Women must prove their last name from birth certificate to now. (I was divorced and remarried...and never thought to bring my divorce papers along to the DMV.)

2. Hubby had lost his social security card 40 years ago. Never needed it until he tried to renew his SD driver's license in 2010.

If we had had passports in our hands before we stepped foot inside the DMV... we could have sailed in and sailed out with them in hand the first day we tried... instead of waiting 3 weeks for all the documents we needed to be mailed to us from different places in different states so we could be successful the 2nd time we tried to renew.

This is the long tale (copied from our blog):
We left our MH in Oregon and drove back to SD in the jeep. One of the main reasons for this trip back to SD was to renew our South Dakota driver’s licenses there. We didn’t realize that we’d need more documents to qualify for the SD license now than we would need to get passports. At least for me, that was true. To get a passport I just needed a current driver’s license, non-laminated social security card, a state certified original birth certificate, passport photo and about $100. BUT to get a SD DL, I needed my social security card and either a passport or a state certified birth certificate (showing my maiden name) and a state certified marriage certificate FOR EACH time I was married in order to prove my name from birth to present.

Lou has always had a City of Chicago original, certified, birth certificate but he has never bothered to get a State of Illinois original, certified, birth certificate. SD didn’t consider the City of Chicago original valid. They required a State of Illinois one. He didn’t have his social security card either (lost it as a teenager) and SD would not consider his Medicare card, voting card, 1099 or 1040 (all of which we had along) as documentation. That meant that we had a major problem.

Lou’s DL expired in March and he was driving on a one-time-only extension issued by the SD DMV that was going to expire May 15th. He couldn’t get a social security card at the Federal building in Huron, SD, without a CURRENT driver’s license. He couldn’t get a driver’s license without a social security card and he couldn’t get a birth certificate out of Illinois without a driver’s license. (I think I have that straight.)
He couldn’t get a birth certificate out of Illinois in less than two weeks anyway and today was May 4th, 2010. His license would expire on May 15th (which mean our vehicle insurance, in his name, would expire)and South Dakota DMV wouldn’t give him another extension.

So we left the building without either of us getting a renewed SD DL. We had quite a bit to think about and I have to admit that we didn’t get much “rest”. We were back at it the next morning and our sole hope was to get Lou’s City of Chicago birth certificate acknowledged and accepted by the SD DMV. It took prayer before we presented our case. (We didn’t have one yesterday. We were too stunned.) This time the gal behind the counter faxed a copy of Lou’s City of Chicago birth certificate to her supervisor in Sioux Falls and he agreed to allow us to use it for the driver’s license. Prayer worked.

Now, all we needed was his social security number to be proved to them, without a social security card. We needed a 1099 with his full name, full social security number and the title “1099” all on one page. The 1099 we had along had ONLY the last four digits of his social security number showing (xxx-xx-1234). Believe it or not, we had to have a trusted friend back in Oregon get into our RV, find our tax folder and fax a document that had Lou’s full ssn showing on it, to us at the DMV. All for a driver’s license. Keep in mind that we had our 1040’s with us. 1040’s don’t count.

As for me and my certified marriage certificates… that was just a matter of sending for them and waiting for them to get mailed to me. Oh, and paying for them (with postage it ran appx $50 per document). South Dakota is not the only state doing this so you might want to gather your paperwork together now.
If you are like us, and need two documents at $50 each, you might as well just get a passport for $100.
Actually, we opted to send for all of it because we just didn’t know which would make it to us first.

We spent 3 weeks with relatives in ND before all the documents (including our passports) were mailed to us at our SD mail forwarding service, then forwarded to us so we could drive back to SD with them in hand to get our Driver's licenses renewed.

Federal law requires all states to verify the identity of all persons this way. Your troubles ,regretably for you , are not an SD issue. In any state you would have had to prove yourself the same way.
Can we get back on topic about the pending online renewal?