To the Editor,

I went to the Lee County Tax Collectors Office to change my address on my driver’s license and my car registration. I have been there a total of five times in the last month, and every time I go there, it’s just one thing after the other and I can’t get it done.

First time it was I didn’t have anything with my new address on it like a utility bill or a lease. I went home and came back with the address of my new residence on an electric bill.

Still not enough because I had to get a copy of my marriage license so I had to drive to Bonita Springs to get a copy from my ex-husband.

I took that to them and it still wasn’t enough. Back home again. I got all the pertinent paperwork together and went back again. I had at the beginning of this a copy of my birth certificate that I have had since the day I got married.

So here I go again back to the tax office thinking I’m all set.

They told me it’s not a certified copy and that I would have to pay $15 to the state of Maine for a certified copy.

As it is, just to get the address changed, it will cost more than $30.

Well this time I brought a form from my doctor to get a handicap placard to put on my mirror, as I am handicapped. I had no problem getting that and lo and behold it has my new address on it.

Now, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed but President Obama in the White House didn’t have to produce his birth certificate why do I have to? My copy worked for me when I got married.

Barbara Jones

Lehigh Acres

Guidelines have changed about getting your driver’s license address changed and other things, but no official announcement has been made to this newspaper from the county. Others have complained about this situation, too. Before you go to the Tax Collector’s Office, you should call them to see what you need. The writer is correct that now you will need your original birth certificate or a certified copy from the state in which you were born and you will need an official copy of your marriage license, not one from the minister or church, but from the county in which you were married. You also have to prove where you live. It will cost you money and time to get that done. – Ed.