Monday, August 11, 2025

Establishing my residency in Manitoba

I'm trying to get my Manitoba driver's license.  I thought it would be a simple case of presenting them my Chinese driver's license, which is linked to my passport, which I of course have, and presenting a document to show my address here.  It turns out I will have to take a knowledge test again, as well as a road test, before I can get my class five license.

But before I can do that, I have to establish my residency for which I need two documents.  One of them is  a guarantor form, like the form for a passport. But I can get someone who knows me and has a driver's license in Manitoba to be my guarantor.  I had to go to Walmart to get passport sized pictures taken to accompany the form.  The other document will be a bank statement which I will get sometime this week.  Luckily, I was informed that I needed to make three transactions with my bank card otherwise the bank statement would not have been good enough.  Once I get the statement, I'll zip off to a Manitoba Public Insurance broker office and start the process of getting the license.

I need to establish my residency in order to register my son Tony into school.

Paperwork!  Bureaucracy!  Aggh!!


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1 comment:

  1. With you ultra-negative opinions on everybody and the way they drive, it will be quite a pleasure to see them make you work for getting a license again - perhaps you are not as slick and "better than the other drivers" that you think. Arrogance has a price.

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