Almost certainly not. They're still useful to keep as even if they're expired, they still prove citizenship, so you can use it as verification in certain situations where you might not want to use your original birth certificate for fear of losing it in the mail or something
May be a state to state thing. When my first ever drivers license expired the lady at the dmv told me I could keep it as long as she cut one of the corners off. I think they’re worried about people giving them to their underage friends to try and buy alcohol with
Within a year I got pulled over and a cop found it in my wallet and told me it was illegal to have two ids no matter what. Nothing ever came of it, the cop loves to lie, it’s in his nature.
When I renewed my license last year they gave me my old one back, but not before running it through this machine that printed a bunch of little holes in it that spelled out "VOID."
Also that cop was bullshitting. It's not illegal to carry an expired license on you so long as it's been defaced (which it already has been since you cut off one of the corners).
fun shitty fact: US passports do not belong to the person whose info they contain. inside they are printed as being property of the US government and are therefore required to be turned over to the US government on request. technically speaking, the government can't steal a citizen's passport.
22 CFR § 51.7 Passport property of the U.S. Government. (a) A passport at all times remains the property of the United States and must be returned to the U.S. Government upon demand.
the language and laws around passports is pretty hardcore.
Isn't it illegal to hold onto expired identification? That might just be something a pig said to me once about driver's licenses
Almost certainly not. They're still useful to keep as even if they're expired, they still prove citizenship, so you can use it as verification in certain situations where you might not want to use your original birth certificate for fear of losing it in the mail or something
Sounds like cops making shit up, but who knows what is and isn't legal with so many overlapping jurisdictions and bullshit laws.
not for passports
May be a state to state thing. When my first ever drivers license expired the lady at the dmv told me I could keep it as long as she cut one of the corners off. I think they’re worried about people giving them to their underage friends to try and buy alcohol with
Within a year I got pulled over and a cop found it in my wallet and told me it was illegal to have two ids no matter what. Nothing ever came of it, the cop loves to lie, it’s in his nature.
When I renewed my license last year they gave me my old one back, but not before running it through this machine that printed a bunch of little holes in it that spelled out "VOID."
Also that cop was bullshitting. It's not illegal to carry an expired license on you so long as it's been defaced (which it already has been since you cut off one of the corners).
fun shitty fact: US passports do not belong to the person whose info they contain. inside they are printed as being property of the US government and are therefore required to be turned over to the US government on request. technically speaking, the government can't steal a citizen's passport.
the language and laws around passports is pretty hardcore.