When you transfer your drivers liscense does your old state know you transfered it?

Question

If your liscense is transferred before the old state attempts to suspend the liscense then what happens. If the old liscnese has already been cancelled and they suspend the new one?

Answer 1

This is a definite nowadays.  Almost all states are now linked to a federal system and send abstracts between each other.  You do not start over in a new state when you move, especially if you have unresolved licensing issues in others states.  

It may take time but once you move and apply for license the state you are in they will run your name and soc on a National Driver Registry to check for hits from other states.  If you have a hit they will refer you back to that state to take care of whatever it is that needs to be taken care of.  If your name and soc go though okay then the state will issue a license but they record the license number from your previous state and invalidate the card license.

Eventually, that info is sent the previous state and they send what record they have. If you have tickets or accidents from that state and they are still eligible to show on the record of the current state...they they can show up.

It's a confusing process...

Hope this helps though!

Edited

You do transfer licenses (you just get a new hard license card with photo for that state) otherwise you'd have to start all over by taking a written and road test in every new state you move to.  You are allowed to have one state license at a time, legally.  Yeah you can lie and say you don't have one from another state and get away with for a little while but not forever.  You are more apt to get away with having both a license from another country and a state license.

As for transferring a license before it gets suspended. Yeah, you can do that too but if the previous state suspends your license you WILL eventually have to take care of it.  

I deal with people on a daily basis that get their licenses revoked in one state move to another and then call upset because weren't able to renew their licenses for something that happened five years ago in another state.  

It's not easy explaining to folks that the states are now linked to a Federal system that allows them to post names of people who have unresolved supsensions and what not.

Answer 2

you don't transfer a driver's license.

you get a new license in your new state.

your old license is still valid for x*x days (however long is the time you have when you change addresses).

a person can be licensed in more than one state.  or more than one country for that matter.

states don't really care about your dealings with other states.

Answer 3

You have to let your old DMV know that your address changed, and then I'm pretty sure they'll figure it out.