107-Year-Old Woman Who Danced With Obamas, Has Trouble Obtaining Photo ID
A video of their White House meet-up went viral and has been viewed on the White House Facebook page nearly 66 million times. As a result, McLaurin has been invited for interviews in both New York and Los Angeles, according to a column in the Washington Post.
But there’s a problem: She’s stuck in a bureaucratic Catch-22.
McLaurin doesn’t have a government-issued photo ID and in order to obtain one from the Department of Motor Vehicles in D.C. she would need documentation that proves her identity, such as a U.S. birth certificate, an unexpired passport or an unexpired military ID card, among other things.
Now at the age of 107, McLaurin doesn’t have any of the required documentation to get a D.C. photo ID. She once had a photo ID, but it was stolen a while ago. In order to obtain her birth certificate from South Carolina where where she was born, she discovered she needs a government-issued photo ID, too.
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