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SAVE Lunch and Learn!

Do you know what SAVE is and how it affects our Agency? If not,
you should have attended the recent lunch and learn event
sponsored by Field Ops and Central Issuance.

SAVE is a fast, secure, and reliable online service that allows
federal, state, and local benefit-granting agencies to verify a
benefit applicants.

Georgia state law requires DDS to verify all immigration
documents presented by non-citizens via SAVE prior to issuing a
driver's license/permit/ID card (O.C.G.A. §40-5-21.1).

In most cases, the verification can be completed immediately
during the applicant's driver's license/permit/ID card
transaction.

In some cases, verification can take several days. Until the
documentation is verified by USCIS, DDS cannot issue a driver's
license/permit/ID card.

Thanks to presenters Milton Martinez
and Stormistic Bowens with Central

Issuance.