Last October, state officials lamented that they could not find correct addresses for 50,000 redesigned driver licenses that were returned by the U.S. Postal Service. Without them, drivers will not be able to use their licenses as identification at airports beginning Oct. 1.
Now, “A little over 76,000 licenses are in our possession that we haven't been able to find an updated address for,” says Chris Caras, director of Utah Driver License Division. The new design adds a gold star to show at a glance that the holder is a U.S. citizen or legal resident.
The increasing number of returned licenses comes as the state continues, as scheduled, to send out more replacement cards in advance of the upcoming deadline, and more keep coming back.