> In spite of actually having expired documentation with the correct name
> on it, neither state would issue her a correct driver's license.

We have similar things in the EU. Any driving license from one EU 
country is valid in another automatically without have to apply for a 
local one (unless it has expired). The problem is in the UK the license 
has your address printed on it. So when I moved to Germany I called the 
DVLA (the UK driving license office) and told them I needed to change 
the address on my driving license. "Oh no you can't put a non-UK address 
on it - don't you know anyone in the UK that can forward your mail to 
you, you can use their address." This kind of defeats the whole point of 
not having to apply for a new license.

Anyway I put my mum's address on there, but then when it came to renew 
it I followed the correct procedure of going to the local "Rathaus" in 
my town to apply for a German license. It turned out that nobody there 
knew how to deal with converting a UK license to a German one, they even 
suggested I needed to take a test! In the end I just got another UK one, 
which had the added advantage that I couldn't get any points on my 
license :-)

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