Weird News: Clerk stalls marriage over 'foreign' New Mexico ID card – Napa Valley Register

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A District of Columbia clerk refused to accept a New Mexico man’s state driver’s license for a marriage license because she and her supervisor believed New Mexico was a foreign country.
Gavin Clarkson told the Las Cruces Sun-News it happened Nov. 20 at the District of Columbia Courts Marriage Bureau as he tried to apply for a marriage license.
Clarkson says the clerk told him he needed an international passport to get the marriage license.
The clerk finally concluded New Mexico was a state after Clarkson objected three times and granted the license to Clarkson and his fiancee.
The D.C. courts system acknowledged the staff error to the Sun-News.
New Mexico was admitted into the U.S. as a state in 1912.
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