California Driver's License Renewal

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-06-30

The document was derived from and cross-checked against the official source below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (manual-source-review-v1 → Procedure step 2) has not yet been completed and recorded against the live CA DMV online renewal flow. It therefore remains draft, not verified.

Source examined

• Document (id, version): us/ca/dmv/drivers-license-renewal / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.1.0
• Authority: California Department of Motor Vehicles (CA DMV)
• Primary source URL: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/renew-your-driver-license-dl/
• Official form ref: DL renewal notice (mailed); no single public form number for the online flow
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-06-30 (page confirmed live, © 2026, at authoring time)
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Renewal can be done online, by mail, or in person | renewalMethod | | Online renewal is available within 90 days before to 12 months after expiration and only without an address change or REAL ID upgrade | licenseExpirationDate, renewalMethod, addressOrNameChange, upgradingToRealId | | A first-time REAL ID upgrade requires an in-person visit with documents | upgradingToRealId | | Vision changes (e.g. recent eye surgery) or a new medical condition affecting driving require in-person renewal with a vision exam | visionOrMedicalChange | | Certain ages (generally 70+) require part of the renewal to be done in person | dateOfBirth (rule recorded in its description) | | Identity is verified with DL number, name, date of birth, and last four of SSN | driverLicenseNumber, lastName/firstName/middleName, dateOfBirth, last4SSN | | Residence address (and a separate mailing address if different) | residenceAddress*, mailingAddressDiffers |

Conditional / temporal rules (not encoded structurally in v0.1)

Recorded in field descriptions, not encoded (v0.1 has no conditional or temporal constraint mechanism — tracked in GSP-0004):

• The online-eligibility timing window (90 days before / 12 months after expiration) is measured against licenseExpirationDate.
• upgradingToRealId true, visionOrMedicalChange true, and the age threshold on dateOfBirth each force renewalMethod to in_person.
• An address or personal-description change may require a different DMV transaction.

What is NOT yet independently verified

• The exact field order and labels of the live online renewal flow were not captured screen-by-screen; sourceRef annotations are indicative, derived from the public "Renew your driver's license" page.
• The CA DL-number pattern ([A-Z][0-9]{7}) is the established California format, not a citation of a published DMV validation rule.
• Fees, the thumbprint/photo/knowledge-test steps taken at a field office, and exact age thresholds are described on the live source and intentionally not encoded as data.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 (Procedure step 2 field-by-field against the live renewal flow, step 3 flow), confirms the source is authoritative, resolves any discrepancy by shipping a new schema version (immutability — VERSIONING §3, practice Procedure step 5), and records the outcome here plus sets status: verified with a current verification.lastVerifiedAt/nextReviewBy.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2026-12-30 (6 months): California's REAL ID rules and online-eligibility criteria change periodically. Re-check the source on or before that date and on any source.url change.