Is it possible to buy a driver's license in the USA: the experience of a Russian-speaking immigrant

Many have heard that it is impossible to buy a driver's license in the United States, but whether this is really so, very few people dared to check. Author blog "Americano / Americano" on Yandex.Zen talked about how his friend decided to buy this document for himself.

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When a Russian-speaking immigrant needed a driver's license, he "out of old habit" decided to check whether it was possible to buy them here.

“The first thing, of course, he didn’t go to the department, but started asking friends and acquaintances. It is curious that a good half did not appreciate this idea, they say, this is wrong, you should do it yourself. The rest simply shrugged their shoulders: we rented it out ourselves, we don’t know how or where to negotiate, we don’t have any acquaintances either,” the author writes. “But he still managed to find the little guy from the Department of Motor Vehicles.”

As it turned out, it is very possible to buy rights in the USA.

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An employee of the department said that there were precedents, but such cases are very rare. And you need to negotiate for a very long time, the process may even drag on for a couple of months.

“It’s funny that during this time you can easily pass it yourself, because a driving school specifically for passing driver’s license exams in the USA is not needed, the timeout between retakes is short,” writes the author.

In addition, such a service is not cheap, since everything is decided by the management, and they will not take risks for a small amount.

Approximately it can cost 20-30 thousand dollars.

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“A person from the department noticed that it would be cheaper and faster to buy a fake license. After all, they often catch those who drive with such documents for several years, since at each stop the license number is not entered into the database,” the author noted.

So it turns out that you don’t buy a driver’s license in the USA - it’s time-consuming, expensive and very often punishable.

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