With the state of the economy in America on a weak foundation many people are considering moving to other places but worry about various things that could prevent them from making the move. One question that is often asked on the Internet chat rooms is, ‘Does unpaid traffic tickets prevent me from moving to another country’ the answer isn’t always as straightforward as a yes or no.
There are three programs that help a speeding ticket follow a person from state to state and they are the Driver License Agreement, Non-Resident Violators Compact and the DLC. Soon, these will be replace by a single group, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators or AAMVA.
A development and ‘tax exempt’ non-profit organization with law enforcement, motor vehicle administration and highway safety concerns, this organization can create laws and hand out punishments over state lines that deal with operating motor vehicles and their licensing and laws. The top goal of the AAMVA is to create a ‘one license, one set or records in a file and one driver’ type place for each individual in the Untied States so that all the information regarding a driver is located in a central database for all those who need access to it.
The AAMVA will have the power to suspend a person’s driver’s license not only in their own state, but in other states as well. In addition the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators is working to expand the Drivers Licensing Agreement (DLA) to include other countries such as Canada, Africa, Australia, Mexico and Europe. This will mean that if an individual has speeding tickets in St. Louis, they will have a heck of a time getting a driver’s license in Rome, Italy.
The AAMVA is not trying to make life harder for those people who want to move to a different country and get a driver’s license; they want to make it easier for them to make a clean start with no traffic tickets left behind in the United States. In addition, they want to take all the bad drivers off the road, all the roads no matter where they are located around the world.
A factor for people to consider if they are moving from the US to another country and they have unpaid parking or traffic tickets is if the state they are moving from, or the country they are moving to, has extradition rules and regulations. This means that a country could accept a citizen from the Untied States; however, if they find that the person has a warrant for their arrest from the US, the country may send them back to serve time or at least take care of their outstanding tickets before allowing them to return to the new country. Of course this is not as bad as if the person moving to a different country had killed someone or robbed a bank. Most countries will not actively peruse a traffic violator for extradition like they would a hardened criminal.
Some public groups, citizen advocates and lawyers will tell a person to fight all traffic tickets because any admission of guilt, which could be signing the ticket or paying the ticket, could invite unwanted persecution from the police department, although this is unfounded in many cases.
So to answer the question ‘Does unpaid traffic tickets prevent me from moving to another country’ the answer is it depends on the country one is moving to and their extradition policies on traffic violators verses other crimes and how badly the American government wants to keep them here to make them pay for their mistakes.
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