Many people question: Does unpaid traffic tickets prevent me from moving to another country Some people are not happy with the direction that the states are taking and are considering a move to another country; however they may have an outstanding traffic ticket which concerns them if they were to leave them unpaid and move to another country.
Unfortunately, there are three separate systems or companies that will make sure that a traffic ticket follows an individual from state to state; they are the Non-Resident Violators Compact, The Drivers License Compact and the Drivers License Agreement. As soon as they can organize themselves, these three systems will be replaced by one group called the AAMVA or the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrator.
The chief goal of the AAMVA is to maintain a ‘one license, one record and one driver’ place for each driver in the US so that all the info pertaining to a driver is centrally located in a database that is easily accessible to all who need it. A ‘tax exempt’ development and non-profit organization the combines forces with law enforcement officials, the highway safety department and the motor vehicle administration is what this organization is made up of and they would be charged with making the laws and enforcing the consequences across state lines.
Not only will the AAMVA have powers in their own state but in other states as well. In addition, they are currently trying to reach beyond the boarders of the US to incorporate the other driving licensing contract, the DLA, Drivers Licensing Agreement. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators has been diligently running their program to include all the major countries such as Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Africa. What this means is that if a person receives a speeding ticket in Texas, they will have a hard time getting a driver’s license in Romania.
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.
Many lawyers and citizen advocates will recommend that a person fight traffic tickets because pleading guilty could allow the police to continue to ‘harass’ a person for other, mostly minor, infractions of the law. For example weed control in front of their house or how many dogs they have within the city limits even though these types of offenses are not enforced with every citizen, only those who have pled guilty to a traffic ticket.
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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