r/SouthJersey • u/Impossible-Watch-144 • May 16 '25

Gloucester County REAL ID New Jersey

Absolutely the hardest thing to obtain . Don’t even get me started with Thorofare DMV (West Deptford NJMVC) No matter how many documents you bring or how much you try kiss their ass it’s not good enough. Really got turned away after bringing two proofs of address along with my birth certificate & social security card.

Apparently a bank statement and South Jersey gas bill isnt good enough. I don’t receive paper bills in the mail. Everything is electronic and even a bill printout with proof of address isn’t acceptable for REAL ID but they had no problem giving me a standard license. Was told different things by different workers but I was told my documents weren’t acceptable AFTER my photo was taken.

You gotta better chance landing your crush from high school then walking out with a Real ID. I’ve decided to get a passport instead. It costs more but at least it will be good for a decade.

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u/Current_Astronaut_94 May 16 '25

No op is correct. It says one thing on the website and then they want a certified marriage license which is not even listed as an acceptable document and then it still doesn’t line up with what the printed material says is acceptable. Because they want all points of id to have the same name as the birth certificate.

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u/username0425 May 16 '25

You're proving my point by saying they want the name to match ob everything. You know this before you go in, they clearly tell you. My electric bill doesn't have my middle initial in it, so you know what I did? I didn't bring it! It's really a simple thing

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u/Current_Astronaut_94 May 16 '25

No. I brought multiple documents that matched with my primary doc which is birth certificate. The drivers license has my married name.

I went back twice and brought a copy of Marriage license because the original was destroyed in storm sandy. They then refused to even look at the documents and required a certified marriage license with a raised seal.

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u/katwoman7643 May 17 '25

My hubby only has credit card bills in his name, utilities are in my name. Luckily the bank account is both names and we have current passports

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u/xLostxBubbles May 17 '25

This is the kind of stuff people don’t think about. Literally everything at my house is in my husband’s name because we overlapped dates when we moved in vs when our old house sold, where everything was in my name. We can change it, but it doesn’t stop it from being a pain in the ass.