Married women facing REAL ID hurdles, being turned away from DMV for insane reasons

Some married women across the US are sharing that they’ve been facing unexpected hurdles in obtaining their REAL ID as the May 7 deadline looms to have the documentation to fly domestically.The common obstacle among them is proving their name change due to marriage without having in their possession their original marriage certificate needed to verify that change.It has become a logistical nightmare, for example, for Dorothy Ballone — formerly Hotchkiss — of Rochester, New York.She’s been on a mission to try to obtain her original marriage certificate from 67 years ago, she told Fox News Digital this week.The nonagenarian has been working since February to track down the authentic document since being turned down on her first trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles in New York.“I found online all the documents that I would need, my Social Security [card], my birth certificate.

A couple of things stating where you live, like your utility bill and your bank statement, stuff like that — and your marriage license,” said Ballone. “I had even more documents than that with me.”She arrived at the DMV with a copy of her marriage license from Aug.19, 1958, along with certification stating that the document was an exact photocopy of the original with a notary public’s stamp and all applicable information.

 “I put all my documents on the counter, and [a clerk] pulled out the marriage license and said, ‘I can’t accept this.’ And I said, ‘Why not?’ She said, ‘It’s a copy.’ And I said, ‘That’s all I have.’ And she said, ‘No, I need the original,’” Ballone told Fox News Digital. Ballone said she was told to go to her church to obtain the original.Ballone reached out to the church in East Rochester where she was married, and was told it does not have marriage licenses dating back that far.She then went on a wild goose chase as she tried to obtain her original marriage license — reaching out to local clerks’ offices, ...