Illinois license reinstatement after three or more DUI arrests

When people call me who are unable to obtain a drivers license where they live because of a hold on their license from Illinois, the first thing I do is to determine if they are eligible for a hearing with the Illinois Secretary of State. If you live outside the state of Illinois, and have been refused from your state the ability to renew your drivers license, we may have the solution for you. I have cleared the drivers license of several people who lived outside the State of Illinois who had three or more DUI arrests in their life.
 
 Typically, what I find, is that people who have had more than three DUI arrests in various states often find that they have a very large gap in the timeframe from when they picked up their most recent DUI. For example, a person might have lived in Virginia and picked up a DUI in 1992 and then moved to Florida and picked up a driving under the influence charge in 1994. Finally, the person picked up their third DUI charge in California in 1997. Despite the fact that all of these DUIs occurred outside the state of Illinois, if the person had an Illinois drivers license when he picked up any of those DUI charges, his license would be revoked in Illinois and would prevent him from getting a valid drivers license in any of those states that I just listed. The only way to get clearance in any of those states is to have a formal administrative hearing in Illinois to reinstate his drivers license.
 
 This process is detailed but not difficult. If you need any legal advice or you are an attorney looking for advice on how to clear a drivers license in Illinois, feel free to contact my office at any time.
 
 
 – Posted by DUI license lawyer John W. Callahan