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Virginia Driver License

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Description

Current license is polycarbonate card; 1D and 2D barcodes on back.

Prior license is plastic with security laminate; 1D and 2D barcodes on back. Licenses may show out-of-state address. For CDL, current license has “COMMERCIAL” and (on two lines) “DRIVER’S LICENSE”; prior has “COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE” below heading.

Minor’s  license

Current license: Vertical format with “UNDER 21” in heading and on back; black “UNDER 18 UNTIL (date)” and black “UNDER 21 UNTIL (date)” at bottom front; flower design in background.

Prior license: Vertical format with red photo outline; red “UNDER 21 UNTIL (date)” and “UNDER 18 UNTIL (date)” to right of photo.

Validation

Current license: Front: Secondary photo in clear window with variable type wave printing below. Customer number, expiration date, birth date, and holder’s signature in raised print. Customer number, date of birth, and gen-der in clear laser-engraved raised print at left photo edge. State seal, DMV logos, and text in UV ink. Back: Date of birth in clear laser-engraved raised print; holder’s signature. Both sides: Microprinting and fine-line designs. Prior license: State outline and name repeating across security overlay; microprinting.

Number

Any letter followed by 8 digits.

Term

8 years as of July 2008, expiring on birth-day. Prior to that date, 3-7 years for original licenses, renewals 5 years, expiring on birth-day in year licensee’s age is evenly divisible by 5. Period of authorized stay in the U.S. or, if no definite period, 1 year maximum for tem-porary (Limited Duration) licenses issued to foreign nationals.

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Washington Driver License

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Description

Digital cards with 1D and 2D barcodes on back. Enhanced driver license (EDL) has machine-readable zone on back. Licenses must show Washington address. CDL has “COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE” or “ENHANCED COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE.”

Minor’s license

Vertical format. Current license and EDL: Red “AGE 21 ON (date)” or red “AGE 18 ON (date)” right of photo, over-laps ghost image; prior license and EDL have same markings in black. Intermediate license issued to first-time licensees age 16-17 has “INTERMEDIATE DRIVER LICENSE” or “ENHANCED INTERMEDIATE DRIVER LICENSE” in heading.

Validation

Current licenses and EDL: Securi-ty background overlaps photo; state seals and “Washington” visible under UV light (see page 75); microprinting; ghost image; green state seal visible under UV light on back; and OVI image of tree. Current EDL also has U.S. flag overlapping photo. Prior license: State name in OVI across bottom; state seals across middle visible under UV light; microprinting, ghost image. Prior EDL (not shown): State seal and U.S. flag overlap photo; UV-sensitive state seals; OVD of “Washington” across bottom; ghost image; fine-line background in headbar.

Number

7 letters and 5 numbers (first 5 letters of last name, first and middle initials, year of birth subtracted from 100, and special codes).

Term

1 to 6 years, expires on birthday (5 years prior to 1/01/13). Prior license may show “MIL” as expiration date, indicating no expira-tion for members of military.

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Wisconsin Driver License

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Description

Current license: Card makes unique sound when dropped on hard surface. Laser-engraved 3D signature and black-and-white photos. Tactile date of birth, expiration date, and wave name over sheer window. Prior formats on flexible cards. CDL: black “COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE” (current), green “COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE” (middle license), and green “DRIVER LICENSE Commercial” (top license). All have 1D and 2D barcodes on back.

Minor’s license

All formats are vertical. Current license has black “UNDER 18 UNTIL (date)” and/or “UNDER 21 UNTIL (date)” at lower left; red “U21” in upper left corner. Middle license: Black “UNDER 18 UNTIL (date)” in yellow bar and/or white “UNDER 21 UNTIL (date)” in red bar. Top license: Black “Turns 18 on (date)” in yellow band and/or white “Turns 21 on (date)” in red band. Validation: Current license: black-and-white image in sheer window; microprinting laser-engraved through window. UV image on front (see page 75). Middle license: state seal, “WISCONSIN” and “1848” in laminate; UV feature. Top license: Coat of arms repeats in overlay; stripes in UV ink.

Number

Spaced 4-4-4-2 (see current license): Z = first letter of last name; 514 = coded last name; 001 = coded first name and middle initial; 7-2 = birth year; 6 = sex (if 5 or greater, sex = female); 68 = coded month and day of birth; 00 = tie-breaker, check digit.

Term

Original license: 3 years from next birth-day, probationary 2 years. Renewals: 8 years, expiring on birthday. Limited-term license valid through approved stay in U.S.

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Wyoming Driver License

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Description

Licenses are laminated; 1D and 2D barcodes on back. CDL has blue “COM-MERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE” and Bucking Horse.

Minor’s license

Vertical format; dates of 18th and 21st birthdays in white in red band near license bottom.

Validation

Ghost image; “WYOMING,” state seal, and Bucking Horse repeat in overlay; second ghost image, birth date, and holder’s name visible under UV light (see page 75); liberty bell, state motto, and Bucking Horse visible on back under UV light. Director’s signature overlaps photo.

Number

Computer-assigned 9 digits, spaced 6-3, uncoded.

Term

4 years, expiring on birthday. Minor’s licenses expire on 21st birthday.

Alabama State Driver License

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Description

Rigid, plastic cart with two barcodes and a magnetic stripe on back. Star inside gold circle ar upper left indicates license issued on or after 6/04/13, and is compliant with REAL ID Act. Solid gold star at upper left indicates license issued perios to 6/04/13, and is materially compliant with REAL ID Act. License may show out-of-state adress. For CDL, black “COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE.”Director’s name may vary.

Minor’s license

Vertical format with, all in red, DRIVER LICENSE,”photo frame, “ÜNDER 21 UNTIL (date)” along left license edge, graduated license adds red ÜNDER 18 UNTIL (date)”below the under 21 statement.

Validation

State seal in UV ink, and state seal overlapping upper right photo corner.

Number

7 OR 8 digits unspaces, uncoded.

Term

4 years from original issue date, with 60-day grace period. Expiration of licenses issued to foreign nationals is same as that of visa or immigration documents.

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Alaska

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”’Alaska”’ is a state in the north-west of America, the United States exclave, separated from other American states by the territory of Canada.
This state is the most extensive state in the USA, famous for its natural resources. On the territory of Alaska, there are more than 3 million lakes and 3 thousand rivers – the Yukon River, the 3rd in length in the United States; 100 thousand glaciers (5% of the surface of Alaska); the highest peak of North America – McKinley Peak; about 70 active volcanoes.
Alaska is placed in the north-west of the mainland, isolated from the Chukchi Peninsula (Russia) by the Bering Strait. It consists of the continent and a vast amount of islands: the Alexander Archipelago, Pribilof Islands, the Aleutian Islands, and Kodiak Island. The Arctic and Pacific Oceans wash Alaska.
Alaska, unlike most other states in the United States with the leading local administrative division – county, has different administrative division -borough. There is one more important difference between Alaska and other states. 15 borough and the municipality of Anchorage cover only a part of Alaska’s territory. The rest of the area does not have enough population for the formation of the local government. The territories that are not part of any borough are divided into so-called census areas. There are 11 such regions in Alaska.
The capital of Alaska is Juneau. The city was founded in 1881, soon after the discovery of gold deposits. Named after the gold digger Joseph Juneau.

”’Alaska’s nicknames”’

Great Land, Last Frontier, Land of the Midnight Sun, and Mainland State.

Area

Alaska area
Total663,268 sq mi (1,717,856 km2)
Width2,261 miles (3,639 km)
Length1,420 miles (2,285 km)

History

The community of Siberian tribes passed the Isthmus (now the Bering Strait) 16-10 thousand years ago. The first Europeans that attended Alaska were Vitus Bering and Alexander Chirikov in 1741. Alaska became a territory of Russia in 1744. The region was named “Russian America.” The Russian settlement was founded in 1784 on Kodiak Island.

The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $ 7.2 million. It was a result of negotiations between the Russian envoy E.A. Stekl and Secretary of State William Seward.
Gold deposits were found five years later. Alaska developed gradually until the beginning of the gold rush on Klondike in 1896. It became a state in 1959.

Demographics

Despite the fact that Alaska is one of the least populated in the United States America, many new residents moved to the state in the 1970s, intrigued by jobs in the oil and transport industry. In the 1980s population increase was more than 36 percent.
About 75 percent of the population is natives of the United States. There are about 86 thousand local people in the state ( Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures). Russian descendants also live in Alaska, but not in such a significant amount. The main religious groups include Catholics, Baptists, Orthodox, Protestants, and Methodists. For the past 20 years, state residents have traditionally voted for Republicans.

TOP 5 Universities

Best Universities in Alaska

  • University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Alaska Pacific University
  • University of Alaska Southeast
  • Alaska Bible College

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California

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California is the third largest state in the USA. It is located in the west of the USA.

California’s capital is Sacramento city. It is the most intense growing big town in the state. The people know the capital of California as the financial hub placed on the West Coast.

California’s nicknames

The Golden State

California area

163,696 sq mi (423,970 km2)
Width 250 miles (400 km)
Length 70 miles (1,240 km)

History

The earliest European, visited the California territories in 1542, was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. He claimed the lands as the property of Spanish. The region received its name California because of the famous Spanish novel, published in 1510, which told about the fictional paradise island of California.
At the very beginning of the XVII century, navigator Sebastián Vizcaíno, a researcher of the California coast and creator of San Diego, Santa Catalina, Santa Barbara, and Monterey names, reaffirmed the Spain rights to this land. However, the persistent growth of California began only at the end of the XVII century, when Spain, trying to gain a foothold on the North American continent and to oppose American expansion, started sending colonists from Mexico to California.

In the XVIII century, the Spanish occupation began in the way of military campaign combined with a religious mission. The Spaniards under the command of Gaspar de Portola and the leadership of the Franciscan monk Junipero Serra carried out the colonization of California. In 1769 they organized the San Diego de Alcala mission (the current city of San Diego), and later another 20 missions that were one day away from each other. The youngest Spanish mission was San Francisco de Solano, founded in 1823.
When Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, California became its province. However, these lands attracted the northern neighbors of Mexico. The annexation of California was the result of the Mexican-American War (1846–48). The bitterness of defeat for the Mexican people aggravated the discovery of deposits of gold ore near the city of Sacramento. In 1849 the famous “gold rush” began there. Many Mexicans have not yet accepted the loss of California. They dream of returning this territory, and it does not even matter for them that tectonic forces are raging in its depths, causing frequent and intense earthquakes.
However, the danger that waits for the people of California every day does not reduce the number of its population. It is still the most populated state in the United States.

Demographics

Presently, California is the global leader in the modern technologies industry. Space flights, computer science, microelectronics, biotechnology are the basis of the development of the state.
Silicon Valley is a chain of cities that has the shape of an arc. It starts north of San Francisco and comes to San Jose. This area is known worldwide as the area of information technologies.

California is the most populated state in the United States (12% of the whole population).

There is no absolute ethnic majority in California. Majority of the population is still white, they followed by Latin Americans (almost a third), Asians, African-Americans, and American Indians. Experts predict that Hispanics will constitute an absolute majority of California’s population by 2040. The reasons for this are the massive flow of immigration from Mexico and the high birth rate among them.

TOP 5 Universities

Best California Universities

* Stanford University
* University of California, Berkeley
* University of California, Los Angeles
* University of Southern California
* University of California, Irvine

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California Driver License

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Description

Laminated with ID barcode, magnetic stripe; current license 2D barcode on back. License may show out-of-state address. For CDL, brown “COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE.”

Minor’s license

Current license is vertical with ghost image at lower left. Under 21 licenses white “AGE 21 IN (year)” in red bar. Under 18 license has white “PROVISIONAL UNTIL AGE 18 IN (year)” in blue bar.

Validation

Laser-engraved ghost image and birth date; secondary image and birth date visible under UV light; perforated image of brown bear visible with backlighting.

Number

1 letter and 7 digits, unspaced, uncoded.

Term

5 years for original licenses, 5 years for renewals. Expiration is on birthday. For non-U.S. citizens, term does not extend beyond expiration date of legal presence documentation.

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